Curated OER
Dust Bowl Story
Learners compose narratives describing the difficulties faced by those living in the Dust Bowl. They use resource sheets and photos in this small group activity. Their stories include plots, settings, and characters either taken...
Curated OER
Integration of Education
Pupils explore the history of Civil Rights and how the struggle for Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction, transformed society and politics in the United States in the 1950s. Then they identify why American Schools are integrated...
PBS
Pbs: Slave to Sharecropper
This collection of resources examines the life and work of freed slaves after the Civil War. Includes questions and answers on sharecropping in the American South, as well as a personal account from a former slave who became a sharecropper.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sharecropping
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to critically evaluate their classroom textbook's account...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Fannie Lou Hamer
This Ibiblio.org Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee site offers a brief biography on Fannie Lou Hamer.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Elizabeth Catlett
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Elizabeth Catlett in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
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Digital History
Digital History: The African American as Sharecropper [Pdf]
After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Elizabeth Catlett: Sharecropper
Analysis of Sharecropper, a print by American-born Mexican artist Elizabeth Catlett, which includes a one-paragraph definition of the sharecropping system. Catlett's print, a commentary on sharecropping and the dignity of work, is one of...