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American History
Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.
How can we teach African-American history through the everyday voices of ordinary people and not just iconic leaders? How does history have a way of cropping up where you least expect it: at the bottom of a forgotten old storage box, under the dirt of Central Park or in the memories of a long-running TV dance show?
In recognition of Black History Month, we offer a different take on the significant events and eras of the African-American experience. We invite students and teachers to explore the interplay between extraordinary events and ordinary people.
In this post, we first offer general activities for considering how the stories of African-American history are told, as well as ideas for contributing to the telling yourself. Next, we have suggested a handful of examples of news articles and other resources about ordinary people witnessing, or reacting to, extraordinary events.
Please tell us what you&#x;ll do this year to celebrate Black History Month.
Suggested Activities
1. Find New Heroes. Use the resources below as well as the oral history sites at StoryCorps Griot and the National Visionary Leadership Project to browse for interesting stories or use keyword searches to find sources on particular topics or eras &#x; whether something general, like blues music, or something more specific, like the Memphis sanitary workers&#x; strike.
Ask each student to pick a source whom they have never heard of and make a presentation nominating that person for inclusion to a class museum of Unsung Heroes of Black History. How would they tell their selected hero&#x;s story? What images and multimedia would they use? What artifacts would they want to include?
2. Interview the Heroes Among You: Using sources like Storycorps as a model, find people in your own family or community who can add to the story of African-American history in some way.
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