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[Detail] extract from The Declaration of Independence

Lesson Preparation

Materials

Note: Before the lesson, divide students into home and expert groups. Students begin in their home groups, and return to home groups for debriefing. Members of home groups should be also be assigned equally to each of the three expert groups. Each expert group will "attend" a different session of the 1898 Afro-American Council Meeting.

Student Pages

• Segregation and Violence
• Solving the Race Problem
• Contributions to the Nation

Resources

• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907
  • Protection of American CitizensProtection of American Citizens
  • Mob-violence and Anarchy, North and South
  • “The Black Laws”
  • “Lynch Laws in Georgia”
  • The Church as a Factor in Solving the Race Problem in America
  • The Champions of Human Liberty -- How shall we Honor them?
  • Industrial Education
  • Higher Education
  • Our Place in the Politics of the Country
  • Work Among Our Women
  • The Negro in the Wars of the Nation
  • Address to the Country
  • Progress of a People

• African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
  • Slavery--The Peculiar Institution
  • Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period
  • Abolition
  • The Civil War
  • Reconstruction
  • Booker T. Washington Era
  • World War I and Postwar Society
  • Depression, New Deal, and World War II
  • Civil Rights

• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress

• Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
  • Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822- 1909

• Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860

• Learning Guide Answer Key

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