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Carving out a life after slavery
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A desk made by a formerly enslaved man in the post-Civil War South. Writing desk, attributed to William Howard, c. 1870, yellow pine, tobacco box and cotton crate wood, 154.31 75.88 x 60.17 (Minneapolis Institute of Art) A Seeing America video. Speakers: Dr. Alex Bortolot and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
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Khan Academy
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Smarthistory
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SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021
Harlem 1948, Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks and the photo essay
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Gordon Parks and the writer Ralph Ellison collaborated to show that Harlem is everywhere. Gordon Parks, Off on My Own (Harlem, New York), 1948. Gelatin silver print. The Art Institute of Chicago, Amanda Taub Veazie Acquisition Fund, 2016.125. © The Gordon Parks Foundation. From "Harlem is Nowhere," a collaborative project between Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison. A Seeing America video. Speakers: Michal Raz-Russo, David and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago and Dr. Steven Zucker Special thanks to Michal Raz-Russo, Sarah E. Alvarez, The Gordon Parks Foundation, the Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
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Khan Academy
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Smarthistory
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SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021
Horace Pippin's Mr. Prejudice
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Discrimination undermined the sense of victory for African-American vets. Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice, 1943, oil on canvas, 46 x 35.9 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art). A conversation with Dr. Jessica T. Smith, Susan Gray Detweiler Curator of American Art and Manager, Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
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Khan Academy
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SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021
Identity and civil rights in 1960s America
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Does the figure emerge from the stripes of the flag, or do they imprison him? Benny Andrews, Flag Day, 1966, oil on canvas, 53.3 x 40.6 cm ©The Benny Andrews Estate (The Art Institute of Chicago), a Seeing America video. Speakers: Robyn Farrell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
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Khan Academy
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SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021
Jesse Owens & The Berlin Olympics - HS
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On the eve of WWII, Black American athletes like Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe put the lie to Nazi ideas of racial superiority on Hitler’s home turf. This lesson tells the full story of the so-called “Nazi Olympics,” where athletes from nations that in only a few short years would be at war competed with honor—even as controversy brewed behind the scenes, including on the U.S.A. team. Students will examine the athletic competitions themselves, the achievements of American athletes, and the political controversies that loomed over the games, which resulted in two American Jewish athletes, Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman, being denied their chance to compete. Main presentation text by 1776 Unites scholar and Olympic historian Stephen L. Harris.  The Woodson Center's Black History and Excellence curriculum is based on the Woodson Principles and tells the stories of Black Americans whose tenacity and resilience enabled them to overcome adversity and make invaluable contributions to our country. It also teaches character and decision-making skills that equip students to take charge of their futures. These lessons in Black American excellence are free and publicly available for all.

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Ethnic Studies
U.S. History
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Curriculum Team
Date Added:
06/24/2024
The Lonely Warrior: The Life and Times of Robert S. Abbott by Roi Ottley
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In May 1905 Robert S. Abbott started publishing the Chicago Defender. The paper attacked racial injustice, particularly lynching in the south. The Defender did not use the words “Negro” or “black” in its pages. Instead, African Americans were referred to as “the Race” and black men and women as “Race men and Race women.” Many places in the south effectively banned the paper, especially when, during World War I, Abbott actively tried to convince southern blacks to migrate to the north. Abbott managed to get railroad porters to carry his papers south and he ran articles, editorials, cartoons -even train schedules and job listings to convince the Defender’s southern readers to come north. The “Great Northern Migration,” as it was called in the Defender, resulted in more than one million blacks migrating north, about 100,000 of them coming to Chicago. The Defender was passed from person to person, and read aloud in barbershops and churches. It is estimated that at its height each paper sold was read by four to five African Americans, putting its readership at over 500,000 people each week.

Son of ex-slaves, Abbott passed from small-town obscurity to national preeminence, due neither to great wealth nor hereditary status, but by sheer character, determination and imagination. He was a crusading journalist, who ultimately developed into a national leader, and, in the process, became a millionaire. As a newspaper editor, he influenced and molded the opinions of millions of Negroes in the United States, and therefore his career is of unique interest—indeed, his extraordinary achievement is a triumphant American success story.

The roots of greatness should be sought in a man’s formative years. Until now, most Negroes who have achieved anything noteworthy seemingly have no traceable background—notably Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver—and like Topsy seem merely to have “growed up.” But Abbott’s accomplishments represent continuity of family enterprise and perseverance. However, the purpose of this volume is not at all genealogical. Essentially, this is a biography of a people, for Abbott’s life and times spanned the most triumphant period of the Negro in the United States. Born three years after the promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation, he lived to see and chronicle the spectacular progress of his people.

In the burgeoning economic times of the 1920s, with hundreds of new products and the growth of advertising, the Defender became an economic success and Abbott became one of the first African American millionaires.

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History
U.S. History
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Reading
Author:
Roi Ottley
Date Added:
10/08/2021
Rothko, No. 210/No. 211 (Orange)
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Mark Rothko, No. 210/No. 211 (Orange), 1960, oil on canvas, 175.3 x 160 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art). Speakers: Dr. Margi Conrads and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
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Khan Academy
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SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021
Seneca Village: the lost history of African Americans in New York
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Seneca Village: a thriving community of African Americans and immigrants. A conversation between Dr. Diana Wall and Dr. Steven Zucker in Central Park about Seneca Village. If you are a descendant of a Seneca Village resident, or know someone who is, please contact the Seneca Village Project at: diana.diz.wall[at]gmail.com.A Smarthistory ARCHES video. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
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Lesson
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Khan Academy
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Smarthistory
Author:
SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021
Tulsa: Terror & Triumph (1921-2021) - HS
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oklahoma was a haven for Black Americans seeking freedom and economic opportunity. The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, with its bustling business district known as the “Black Wall Street,” was the nation’s most affluent Black community, a central hub of entrepreneurship and activism. But by June 1, 1921, Greenwood lay in ruins, victim to a massive wave of violence and looting committed by a mob of their White neighbors, in what is now known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Against all odds, the survivors fought to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, even as powerful forces tried to bury Greenwood forever. This incredible story of dignity in the face of devastation shows the depths of human cruelty — and the heights of human resilience.The Woodson Center's Black History and Excellence curriculum is based on the Woodson Principles and tells the stories of Black Americans whose tenacity and resilience enabled them to overcome adversity and make invaluable contributions to our country. It also teaches character and decision-making skills that equip students to take charge of their futures. These lessons in Black American excellence are free and publicly available for all.

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Ethnic Studies
U.S. History
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Author:
Curriculum Team
Date Added:
06/24/2024
Turning Uncle Tom's Cabin upside down, Alison Saar's Topsy and the Golden Fleece
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Alison Saar, Topsy and the Golden Fleece, 2017, wood, tar, steel, ceiling tin, wire, acrylic paint and gold leaf, 35-1/2 x 11-1/2 x-8 1/2 inches (Toledo Museum of Art, ©Alison Saar) speakers: Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
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Khan Academy
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Date Added:
07/29/2021
Washington State Historical Society - Black Washington
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Black Washington is the Washington State Historical Society’s ongoing initiative to commemorate the presence, contributions, and evolving impact of local Black communities..Read, watch, and listen to stories about community organizing, engaging in labor and operating business, striving for civil rights, achieving education, pursuing the arts, and overcoming adversity and racism.

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Arts and Humanities
Cultural Geography
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
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Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
02/02/2024
An artifact of racism: a Connecticut Klan robe
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A Connecticut Klan robe as stark reminder. Ku Klux Klan robe, c. 1928 (The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford) A Seeing America video Speakers: Dr. William Frank Mitchell, Executive Director & Curator at Large, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
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Khan Academy
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SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs, Thornton Dial's Blood and Meat
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Thornton Dial, Blood and Meat: Survival For The World, 1992, rope, carpet, copper Wire, metal, canvas scraps, enamel, and splash zone compound on canvas on wood, 165.1 x 241.3 x 27.9 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, ©Thornton Dial), a Seeing America video A conversation with Timothy Anglin Burgard, Ednah Root Curator-in-Charge of the American Art Department, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
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Provider:
Khan Academy
Provider Set:
Smarthistory
Author:
SmartHistory
Date Added:
07/29/2021