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How We Remember: The Struggle Over Slavery in Public Spaces

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Cierra Kaler-Jones, Ana Rosado, and Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. In the lesson, students receive facts about each of the sites of memory in How the Word Is Passed and imagine how they might choose commemorate what occurred there. They then compare that to how the respective site is commemorated and described by docents.

Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom from slavery in the United States. Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth.

Fugitive Pedagogy Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

Book - Non-fiction. By Jarvis R. Givens. 2021. 320 pages

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Book - Non-Fiction. By Kekla Magoon. 2021. An account of militant revolutionaries and human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community.

Echoes of Enslavement

Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Students discover “echoes of enslavement” in their own state — discrete sites of remembering, forgetting, honoring, lying, or distorting — in this lesson based on the book How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith.

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Book - Non-Fiction. By Elizabeth Hinton. 2021. The rebellion and movement for Black lives of 2020 had clear precursors, this book explains, and any attempt to understand that crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past.

Seizing Freedom Podcast

Podcast. Written and hosted by Kidada E. Williams. 2021. A Black history podcast tells stories "drawn from archives of voices from American history that have been muted time and time again."

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Book - Non-fiction. By Rebecca Hall. Illustrated by Hugo Martinez. 2021 Rebecca Hall documents the process of her own research -- and what she learned -- about women who organized to challenge slavery. In graphic novel format.

How the Word Is Passed: Discussion Questions, Writing Prompts, and Teaching Ideas

Teaching ideas and discussion questions for How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith.

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Book — Non-fiction. By Mia Bay. 2021. From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, this book explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice.

Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Book - Non-fiction. By Kate Masur. 2021. The movement for equal rights in the decades before the Civil War.

To ‘joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War

Book - Non-fiction. By Tera W. Hunter. 1998. An examination of post-Civil War lives of African American women, focusing on their labor organizing, leisure, hope, and struggle.

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Book — Non-fiction. By Carter G. Woodson. 1933. Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions about the legacy of slavery and enduring white supremacy.

The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools

Book - Non-fiction. By Vanessa Siddle Walker. 2018. This history tells the little-known story of how black educators in the South laid the groundwork for 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education and weathered its aftermath.

Black Panther Party in the News and the Classroom

COINTELPRO and the Black Panther Party are back in the headlines. Let’s also make sure to teach this critical history in our classrooms.

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality

Book — Non-fiction. By Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy. Told from the perspective of Jo Ann Allen, this book tells the story of twelve Black students who integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee in 1956.

Dr. Martin Luther King on Reconstruction

Dr. Martin Luther King describes the critical importance of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction to "restore to light the most luminous achievements" of the Reconstruction era.

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination

Book - Non-fiction. By Alondra Nelson. 2013. Drawing on extensive historical research as well as interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party, Alondra Nelson documents the Party’s focus on health care.

Behind the Veil Oral History Project

Digital Collection. Oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.

Book - Non-fiction. By Jesse Holland. 2017. Historic sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House, and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored with a focus on the history of African Americans who built them.

Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana

Book — Non-fiction. By Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon. 2021. This Reconstruction history graphic novel tells the story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian who became the first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor in the United States.

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Book - Picture book. By Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper. 2021. 32 pp. This children's book centers the history of the thriving Black community of Greenwood before the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.

Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Book - Non-fiction. By Julian Bond. Edited by Pam Horowitz and Jeanne Theoharis with an afterword by Vann Newkirk II. 2021. 356 pp. For over two decades, civil rights activist Julian Bond taught a popular class on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. This book contains the wisdom and teachings from that class.

Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education

Book - Non-fiction. By Lawrence Goldstone. 2021. A portrait of the road to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Patterson. Introduction by P. Gabrielle Foreman. 2021. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century’s longest campaign for Black civil rights.