Material on race, racism, & antiracism can be included in most any academic course.

Interested but timid 1st-timers, I'm especially talking to you.

Free resources of/by/for the people are waiting to be taken up for this purpose.

Let me tell you what I'm talking about...
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In my undergraduate course on methods of research & inquiry, a unit on the use of archives will engage artifacts related to slavery, emancipation, & anti-Jim Crow activism--histories/herstories all too often glossed over. Details below.
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Exercise #1 uses this @NEHgov website. Students will describe announcements for slave auctions, wanted ads for people seeking to buy other people as property, notices about bounties for runaway enslaved people, and notifications of those captured.
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024013/

Exercise #2 uses this @librarycongress website. Students will read & make notes re: documented "slave narratives" from the state of Virginia that were collected as oral histories via the Federal Writers' Project of the New Deal era.
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Exercise #3 uses this film about the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in 1957, also from the @librarycongress. Students will watch, then analyze the contents, composition, & purpose of the film. Why was this organized/needed 3 years after Brown v. Board?
5/6 https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01856600/

We must examine our racial, racist, & antiracist heritage.
Educators have a special role to play in this process, for in doing so we can inspire possibilities for a better society.

Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work!
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