- Collection:
- Teaching with Historic Places
- Title:
- Chicago's black metropolis : understanding history through a historic place
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1929
- Subject:
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago
African American businesspeople--Illinois--Chicago
Historic sites--Illinois
Urbanization--Illinois--Chicago
Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
- Medium:
- instructional materials
web sites
lesson plans
teaching guides
black-and-white photographs
maps (documents)
texts (document genres) - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Web site providing a lesson plan based on African American migration to Chicago, Illinois, in the early twentieth century. The lesson plan provides an introductory question, historical context, maps relating to African American history in Chicago, readings about the importance of the African American community in Chicago, historic photographs, 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/articles/chicago-s-black-metropolis-understanding-history-through-a-historic-place-teaching-with-historic-places.htm
- Contributing Institution:
- United States. National Park Service
- Rights:
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