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    Emerging African-American Leaders

    Read about important and influential African-American leaders.

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    African-American History
    Equality Struggles
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    The Great Migration and the Search for a New Life

    The Great Migration had a significant effect on the U.S. economy.

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    African-American History
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    The Great Migration

    At the end of the 19th century, droves of African-Americans migrated North.

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    The Emancipation Proclamation

    Read about the Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862.

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    African-American History
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    Slavery: An Incalculable Human Loss

    Slavery was an American Holocaust.

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    African-American History
    Slavery in United States
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    Celebrating the African-American Entrepreneurial Spirit

    Learn about organizations and campaigns that help African-American business people network and develop their skills.

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    African-American History
    Business
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    African-Americans in the Civil War

    African-Americans played a very important role the Civil War, as this article describes. Help your students better…

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    U.S. Civil War (1860-1865)
    African-American History
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    Jimi Hendrix

    Jimi Hendrix was an astonishing musical innovator, whose style has yet to be defined.

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    African-American History
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    Miles Davis

    Miles Davis was known as the Picasso of jazz.

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    African-American History
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    Duke Ellington

    A great American composer, Ellington's big band music became wildly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

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    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong's talent as a trumpeter shaped the world of jazz.

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    Robert Johnson

    Robert Johnson was a talented guitarist, whose music laid the groundwork for Delta blues.

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    African-American History
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    Slave Narratives

    African slaves brought a tradition of oral narratives to the U.S., a tradition that persisted after the abolition of…

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    Malcolm X

    Malcolm X was a contrast to Dr. King, because he took a very different approach to the civil rights movement.

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    A Movement Led by Dr. Martin Luther King

    Dr. King's work inspired countless supporters to join him in his strategies of nonviolence and passive resistance as…

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    Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman's heroic rescue effort brought slaves to freedom.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives the Nobel Peace Prize Lesson

    Present this lesson plan to teach students about when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. This…

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    Civil Rights
    Human Rights
    Government and Civics
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    A Jazz Talk Show

    Students will explore the lives of various jazz musicians, studying the social and historical events current in the…

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    African-American History
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    Follow the Drinking Gourd Song

    Teach students a song that was sung by slaves making their escape to Canada in the 1800's.

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    Character Education: George Washington Carver

    Use this lesson to discuss the life of George Washington Carver and ask students to explain why he is an example of a…

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    African-American History
    Scientists
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