- Collection:
- Teaching with Historic Places
- Title:
- Iron Hill School : an African-American one-room school
- Date of Original:
- 2003/2018
- Subject:
- African American students--Delaware
African American children--Delaware
African American educators--Delaware
African Americans--Education--Delaware
African American teachers--Delaware
African American schools--Delaware
Segregation in education--Delaware
School buildings--Delaware
Historic sites--Delaware
African Americans--Civil rights--Delaware - Location:
- United States, Delaware, 39.00039, -75.49992
- Medium:
- instructional materials
maps (documents)
photographs
texts (document genres)
web sites
lesson plans
teaching guides - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Web site providing a lesson plan about African American education by examining the Iron Hill School, a one room school house in Delaware on the National Register of Historic Places. The Iron Hill School was one more than eighty schools built between by 1919 and 1928 as part of an experiment by philanthropist Pierre Samuel Du Pont. The less plan provides context and an introductory question, a map of Delaware showing the location of major cities as well as the Iron Hill School, readings about the du Pont schools and memories of Iron Hill students, photographs and a floor plan for the school, 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/iron-hill-school-an-african-american-one-room-school-teaching-with-historic-places.htm
- Contributing Institution:
- United States. National Park Service
- Rights:
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