- Collection:
- Teaching with Historic Places
- Title:
- An American success story : The Pope House of Raleigh, NC
- Date of Original:
- 2003/2018
- Subject:
- Historic sites--North Carolina
Brick houses--North Carolina--Raleigh
Dwellings--North Carolina
Middle class African Americans--North Carolina--Raleigh
African Americans--Social conditions
Race relations
Freedmen--North Carolina--Raleigh
African American businesspeople--North Carolina--Raleigh
African American families--North Carolina--Raleigh
Raleigh (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century - People:
- Pope, M. T. (Manassa Thomas), 1858-1934
Pope, Delia H. (Delia Haywood), 1880-1955
Pope, Ruth Permelia, 1910-2000
Pope, Evelyn Bennett, 1908-1995 - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh, 35.7721, -78.63861
- Medium:
- instructional materials
learning modules
lesson plans
web sites
maps (documents)
photographs
editorial cartoons
texts (document genres) - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Web site providing a lesson plan based on the the Dr. M. T. Pope House, a home on the National Register of Historic Places, in Raleigh, North Carolina. According to information on the nomination form, the Pope House, "represents racial intolerance and segregation, but also the strength and dignity of those who refused to be subjugated by bigotry." The lesson plan provides context and introductory questions, maps of downtown Raleigh in 1903 and 2005, biographical information about the Pope family, photographs of the family and the home, a list of activities, and a list of supplementary resources.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/124pope.htm
- Contributing Institution:
- United States. National Park Service
- Rights:
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