Explore the complex African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s through the 1950s.

Students will experience the Roads to Freedom and use the information as a starting point for further research. Using tools from the National Archives education site, students will learn in more depth about the various roads through the use of primary source documents.

This two-part lesson plan draws on letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones still in bondage, singling out a few among the many slave experiences to offer students a glimpse into slavery and its effects on African American family life.

The focus is on The Bondwoman's Narrative as a primary source, with secondary emphasis, research, and discussion on the factors/influences surrounding the novel as a historical text.

Students gain a sense of the living history that surrounds the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

In this lesson, students will become acquainted with the free black population of Mississippi, the prevailing attitudes of slaveholders toward this class, and the efforts of the American and Mississippi Colonization Societies to resettle the free individuals in Africa.

The focus of this lesson is on conflict, characterization, and the journey motif presented in The Glory Field . Each of the novel's six sections presents a family member whose conflict is directly related to the historical time and whose physical and emotional journeys lead the character to a new level of maturity.

Explore the rich variety of African-American literature in these five chapters, beginning with the poetry and slave narratives of the late 18th century and culminating in the work of vital contemporary artists.

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