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Unc Charlotte: History of Scientific Racism [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A scholarly article by Anthropology Professor Jonathan Marks on the history of scientific racism. Published in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.
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Other

New York Public Library: Images of African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
An image database that includes pictures of African Americans from the 19th Century. Each image includes a description.
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PBS

Pbs: God in America: The Black Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A good look at the role of the church and religion in the history of African Americans. Find out the church's importance in the abolition movement and the civil rights movement.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Liberty: African American History

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around African American history. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Charles W. Chesnutt, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A short story that explores the influence of the Southern plantation past on African American efforts to create new urban identities and the predicaments of post-emancipation life.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Self Image, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
An editorial and four poems that explore African American strivings for self-esteem in the late-nineteenth century. All documents referenced within this resource attempt to shine a light on African American self-image and identity.
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Handout
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: History, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
An art exhibit and a chapter that illustrate African American efforts to create a usable past. Aspects of African American history, character, and potential are illustrated within this resrouce through Edward Johnson's promotion of...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Africa, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs and an address that illustrate the role Africa played in black identity in the late-nineteenth century. This article compares Rev. Henry McNeal Turner's "back to Africa" campaign with the Exoduster migration to Kansas led by...
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Professional Doc
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Associations (Ii), Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter from a novel that describes the workings of a charitable society. This chapter, "The Sewing Circle," illustrates some of the various functions that institutions, especially the benevolent and charitable societies, performed in...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Education, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapters and photographs in which Booker T. Washington promotes manual education for blacks. In this resource, Washington makes his case for the practical, trades-based education he installed at the Tuskegee Institute.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Business, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A painting and an appeal that explore the role business played in black uplift in nineteenth-century America. This resource focuses on the work of Edward Bannister (1828-1901), one of the leading black painters of the nineteenth century.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Family, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A short story and photographs that illustrate the role family played in shaping African American identity in nineteenth-century America. A link to "The Stones of the Village" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson supports this concept.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Action, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
An address, a declaration of principle, and the Black National Anthem illustrating differing approaches to political action. The texts examine how Washington and Du Bois turned their political objectives into action organizations in the...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: 1913: Fifty Years, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem, an address, and a blues song that express black life in the first fifty years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The texts examine whether the true meaning of the proclamation carried forward to the lives African Americans.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Forward:1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Letters, an article, a pamphlet, and a song that point to greater black migration from the South and black cultural achievements in the twentieth century. The texts examines how migrations north affected the relationships of African...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Bight of Biafra, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
An audio clip of a Yoruba drum and two accounts by slaves or their descendants that offer African perspectives on life and culture in the Niger River Delta.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community & Self Help, Making of African American Identity:v. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview illustrating some of the ways community functioned in the lives of African Americans. It explores how external pressures of racism brought African Americans together to form fraternal organizations and entire towns.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community and Memory, Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
A story that defines community as a connection between the past and the present. This resource links to Henry Dumas's short story, "Ark of Bones" and reviews its social commentary as it applies to African American community.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community, Making of African American Identity: V. 1, 1500 1865

For Students 9th - 10th
Twenty nine primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore how enslaved individuals and families coped with, adjusted to, maintained communities within, and opposed the system of oppression.
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Handout
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Petitions, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Three late-eighteenth-century petitions to state legislatures and one to Congress by enslaved or free African Americans seeking civil liberties. These four petitions, called "memorials", present a range of origins, goals, and outcomes.
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Handout
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Mutual Benefit, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Four documents establishing black mutual assistance and self-help organizations from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. A link to each document is provided.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Slave, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides nineteenth-century black narratives that address what it meant to be enslaved and how slaves' identity was formed and changed over time.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Entrepreneurs, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Six mid-nineteenth century accounts by free-born black entrepreneurs about their economic activities and struggles. Links to documents describing each trade are provided within this well-developed resource.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Education, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Nineteenth-century accounts and twentieth-century recollections by former slaves of the absence of and obstacles to education for African Americans. Links to narratives of freed and newly freed slaves are provided.