BKLYN Teacher Lab: African-American Experience (Gr. 4-8)
Post-Emancipation African-American Experience: texts and resources highlighting and connecting key moments in the experience of blacks in post-Civil War America. Resource list for Grades 4-8; developed for the Brooklyn Teacher Lab Summer 2014.
19 items
Reference article - available through "Student Resources in Context" database (requires login with BPL library card). Audio transcript available. Description: discusses federal aid given to Black Americans during the Great Depression
Magazine article - available through "Middle Search Plus" database (requires login with BPL library card). Audio transcript available. Description: information about the Great Migration in the U.S. that occurred in the period of 1915-1930 during which some 1.5 million African Americans living in the Southern United States migrated to the Northern cities and how this affected the lives of the people.
Magazine article - available through "Middle Search Plus" database (requires login with BPL library card). Description: an interview with Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, stars of the film "The Help."
Primary Source (newspaper article) - available through "New York Times (1851-2007)" database (requires login with BPL library card). Description: white parents block the steps to John Wilson Jr. High School in Canarsie to stop the enrollment of 31 black 7th graders.
Primary Source (image) - Library of Congress. New York : New York City W.P.A. Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940] Description: Poster for New York Department of Parks announcing classes forming for swimming lessons, showing African Americans on one side and white children on the other.
Primary Source (leaflet) - http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/ Description: The day after the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, Jo Ann Robinson and the members of the Women's Political Council (WPC) wrote and distributed a leaflet calling for a one-day boycott of buses on Monday, 5 December.
