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Martin Luther King, Jr., at Civil Right March on Washington

Exploring the Legacy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, do you think he would believe that “his dream” had been achieved? Why or why not?
Grade Level
9-12
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Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… the culminating activity of a high school civil rights unit and will incorporate various skills that have been learned … year. The lesson can be done in the classroom or adapted and completed online. … If Martin Luther King, Jr. were … … United States … U.S. Politics … US History since 1877 … African American History … Exploring the Legacy of MLK’s “I …
Thurgood Marshall - Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

International Ripples of the Civil Rights Movement

How has the Civil Rights movement impacted people outside the United States?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… the United States? … Dustin Craig … US History since 1877 … African American History … International Ripples of the …
Police attack protesters on Bloody Sunday in Alabama

The Federal Government and Policing the Police

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
American Government
… specifically looking at Ohio’s American Government Standard Six. The  Origins  article deals with the nature of … when it comes to controlling police in the United States and some of the more controversial roles that they played … Simulation Game Lesson Materials: … US History since 1877 … African American History … American Government … The Federal …
people holding sign that says 14th amendment no state shall deny to any person... equal protection of the law

Evaluating the Causes and Legacy of the 14th Amendment

How can you protect individuals from unjust actions from their state governments? How did the 14th Amendment try to solve this problem? Was it successful?
Grade Level
9-12
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12
Teaching Area
African American History
US History since 1877
US History to 1877
… Students will examine the motivations and origins of the 14th Amendment, examining the meaning and language of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment in … U.S. Laws and Legislation … 19th Century … U.S. Politics … African American History … US History since 1877 … US …
Tommie Smith and John Carlos at 1963 Olympics raising fists in protest - Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

The Black Fists Protest

Are Black Athlete protests effective at accomplishing social change?
Grade Level
9
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… social change? … Luke Zelich … US History since 1877 … African American History … The Black Fists Protest …
Cartoon - Bosses of the Senate by Joseph Keppler

Voting Restrictions in a “Democratic” United States

Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
US History since 1877
African American History
American Government
… student who have completed their units on the Civil War and Reconstruction. The goal of this lesson is for students … to analyze the historical context of voter restrictions and to make connections to current day examples of voting … History … US History to 1877 … US History since 1877 … African American History … American Government … Voting …
Lynchburg Virginia Confederate Monument

Confederate Monuments: Why Take ‘Em Down? What Do We Put Up in Their Place?

What role do Confederate memorials play in American memory, and how does the National Memorial to Peace and Justice seek to correct that memory? Should we preserve or purge Confederate monuments from public spaces?
Grade Level
9-12
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10
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12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
US History to 1877
African American History
… Students will discuss, listen, research, and discuss the historical and current contextual factors leading to the tearing down … History … US History since 1877 … US History to 1877 … African American History … Confederate Monuments: Why Take …
Confederate monument - Photo by Fox Photos/Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Changing the Narrative

How have monuments and memorials minimized the Black experience in America?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
African American History
… Archive/Getty Images   … How have monuments and memorials minimized the Black experience in America? … Payton Siebenaler … US History to 1877 … African American History … Changing the Narrative …
Black Americans protesting the Gilligan case - Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images

The Gilligan Case: Police Brutality and Civil Rights in Harlem 1964

How do we see the circumstances of the Gilligan case reflected in society today?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… in society today? … Tatum Wise … US History since 1877 … African American History … The Gilligan Case: Police Brutality and Civil Rights in Harlem 1964 …

The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy

… this backlash was perhaps concentrated on domestic matters and perceptions, Trump’s foreign policy also reflected a … states and economically marginalized nations in the Global South (Asia, Africa, and Latin America) emphasized policies dedicated to …
George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991

The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”

… the case of four police officers charged in the beating of African American motorist Rodney King to a packed courtroom … in a firestorm of anti-police protest. Looting, burning, and violence lasted six days in what became the largest … verdicts, thousands of residents took to the streets of South Central Los Angeles and in front of LAPD headquarters …
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).

When Free Trade Meant Something Else

Review of Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition, by Bronwen Everill (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020)
… capitalism. 1619 saw the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia colony, marking the beginning of a … Hannah-Jones, has brought public attention to how slavery and American capitalism grew up together and alongside the … consumption. Additionally, she highlights the role of West Africa in shaping these ideals, which makes a stark contrast …
Tilden illustration - a hand on another hand that is on a gun on a table with papers

Top Ten Origins: Other “Unprecedented” Elections in American History

… something completely new in American political history, and not always because of what the issues were or who the … border between Oregon and Canada. Expansion for the slave south, expansion for the free-labor north. Polk won the … together northern supporters of the war effort with African-American voters and southern white opponents of …
The theatrical poster for Birth of a Nation.

3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years

… of a Nation  was the first 12-reel film in movie history and the first movie to be screened at the White House where … Klan (KKK) as an avenging force, hooded heroes saving the South from newly freed and empowered black citizens. For example, the African American Silas Lynch is a scheming, power-hungry, …
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957.

The Unfinished Business of School Desegregation

… The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come and gone. But in celebrating its achievements we have once … a dangerous myth about race relations outside the South. Northern parents demanding educational equality have … schools is an issue that will not go away. The prominent African-American psychologist Kenneth Clark knew this when, …

Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same

… because it promised to measure student achievement in math and reading, through regular standardized tests, and to use … developed during that time between public education and the African-American civil rights agenda. First, black … to be seriously limited. In the North as well as the South, many attended segregated schools, which, contrary to …
Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.

Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida

… as it did during the election of 1876. As the news media and lawyers from the Gore and the Bush campaigns converged … to contest other issues, the attention of the nation turned south. The story was much the same in 1876, when Florida was … The issue of a remedy remains unresolved. In the end, the African-American vote may again be one of the first …
A rendering of the Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, which was fought on April 12, 1864 in Tennessee.  It ended with a massacre by Confederate soldiers of at least one hundred surrendered black troops serving the Union, exemplifying one of the Civil War's transgressions of the norms of warfare.

The American Civil War, Then and Now

Review of The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
… over state sovereignty, unresolved regional rivalries, and enduring questions of race and citizenship. James … exploring the role of the 1846-1848 Mexican War in the South's eventual secession and another examining the continuing paramilitary and terrorist violence in the South after the Civil War, 1861-1865 seems narrow indeed. …

We Won’t Shut up and Dribble: A Short History of Black Athletic Protest

… man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!" LeBron James in his Cleveland Cavaliers uniform, 2008. James was reacting to a … their disgust. Former WNBA star and current University of South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley tweeted, … opportunities. For example, between 1875 and 1902, eleven African American jockeys, led by Isaac Murphy, won the …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… ongoing conflict, with millions more threatened by disease and famine. Yet for many in the West, Yemen remains a … Iran, and have used this as a cover to stake our claims in south Arabia, claims related to oil and other territorial … really was both in Yemen and across the Middle East, North Africa is that if you dismantle the one party dictatorship …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… How we understand policing in the United States depends not only on what … definitely a pleasure. I am Marcus Nevius, PhD candidate in African American history here at The Ohio State University. … patrols that were very common in the antebellum American South. And we know also that policing of racialized groups, …
voting button by Steve Rainwater, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Race and Voting, Past and Present

… Suppose an African American goes to the polls on Election Day. Although … workers turn her away. "You're black," they tell her, "and blacks can't vote." The following year, the same voter … black freedoms — especially the right to vote. "The whole South is in the hands of the very men that held us as …
W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911

150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois

… Du Bois. Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many … first page of Du Bois' dissertation "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States: 1638–1871" ( left … who had killed his employer in an act of self-defense just southwest of Atlanta, caused Du Bois to think about …

Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham

… many of the tributes referred to him as “America’s Pastor”—and as the person who had preached the Christian gospel to … until the 1990s) across the United States and in Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 1973, Graham preached the gospel to one … the largest live crowds ever, 1.1 million people, in Seoul, South Korea. Graham once said that he was “not a great …