Tag Archives: Jim Crow

School Segregation in Charlotte: Then and Now

March 1, 2022 – 3:35 pm

Megan Meadows, 5th Grade, Lebanon Road Elementary

Synopsis

Tags busing, desegregation, Digital Mapping, Integration, Jim Crow, school, Segregation, social change | Permalink | Comments Off

2021 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

“No Boundaries”

March 1, 2022 – 3:33 pm

Mary McElhaney, 7th Grade, Mountain Island Lake Academy

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags black wall street, Brooklyn community Charlotte NC, debt, discrimination, equity, eviction, family, foreclosure, forfeiture, generational wealth gaps, gentrification, Jim Crow, liabilities, litigation, net worth, ordinance, red ling, residential segregation | Permalink | Comments Off

African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship: Citizenship, Rights, and the Constitution

January 20, 2021 – 11:51 am

Pia N. Townes, Social Studies, Wilson STEM Academy

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags 8th grade, abolition, Citizenship, constitution, cross curriculum, Freedom, Injustice, Jim Crow, literacy test, missouri compromise 1820, missouri compromise 1850, poll tax, popular sovereignty, Ratify, reconstruction amendments, Social Studies, women suffrage | Permalink | Comments Off

My Country, My Voice: Teaching the Progression of the Concept of Citizenship from the Eras of Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

January 20, 2021 – 11:03 am

April Louzini, 4th Grade, E.E. Waddell Language Academy

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, 4th grade, abolition, Citizenship, Civil Rights Movement, emancipation, Jim Crow, Reconstruction, Segregation, Separate but Equal, slavery, Social Studies | Permalink | Comments Off

“I, Too, Sing America:” analyzing sex, race, and STEM in 20th Century America.”

January 24, 2020 – 3:22 pm

Shealynn Womble, Language Arts, Governor’s Village STEM Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags central idea, Civil Rights, classism, discrimination, Gender, historical inquiry, historical thinking, inference, Jim Crow, NACA, NASA, objective summary, plot, Point of View, Prejudice, primary sources, race, Racism, secondary sources, Sex, sexism, social class, society, STEM, textual evidence, the cold war, the Space Race, theme, World War II | Permalink | Comments Off

2019 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Children in War and Conflict

The Civil Rights Movement: Young Participants, Martyrs and Volunteers

January 24, 2020 – 1:14 pm

Pia Townes, Social Studies, Wilson STEM Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags acquit, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, double jeopardy, Integration, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, Norman Rockwell, Segregation, Separate but Equal, sit-in, Voting Rights Act | Permalink | Comments Off

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

January 24, 2020 – 12:57 pm

Cassandra Alexander, Social Studies, James Martin Middle

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Brown vs Board of Education, busing, desegregation, discrimination, disenfranchised, Equality, fourteenth amendment, Jim Crow, oppression, Plessy vs Ferguson, Social Injustice | Permalink | Comments Off

2013 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections of the Levine Museum of the New South

Untaught Major Turning Points in Southern African American History

February 20, 2014 – 5:10 pm

Angela Gile, Social Studies, Bailey Middle School

Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags African Americans, Charlotte, D.A. Tompkins, Equality, Jim Crow, North Carolina, Segregation, South, The Birth of a Nation, United States, Wilmington Race Riot | Permalink | Comments Off

2012 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Reading African American Lives

The Rebirth of African Americans

March 5, 2013 – 5:08 pm

Nicki Kincaid, US History, English Language Arts, Bailey Middle School

Final Unit (PDF)

Implementing Common Core Standards

Tags African Americans, Harlem Renaissance, Jim Crow, The Great Migration | Permalink | Comments Off

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