Teaching Inquiry About Race and Democracy Through Primary Sources
Teaching Inquiry About Race and Democracy Through Primary Sources
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and National Council for History Education (NCHE) are proud to present a two-part professional learning series on teaching inquiry about race and democracy through the use of primary sources in K-12 social studies and history classrooms.
Each part of this program previews a chapter from NCSS’ forthcoming online methods texts, Inquiry and Teaching with Primary Sources to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life, and features a panel discussion with the chapter’s author and a history scholar, moderated by NCSS and NCHE leaders.
This program is made possible through the generous funding from the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant
Additional Suggested Resources
Books
- A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle by Crystal Sanders
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
- Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross
- For freedom's sake: The life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Vol. 142) by Chana Kai Lee
- Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson
- Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White
- Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Picture Books
ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford
Ida B. Wells: Let Truth Be Told by Walter Dean Myers and Bonnie Christensen
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Websites
Library of Congress
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
- Mary Church Terrell Collection
- Shall Not Be Denied
- Teaching with Primary Sources
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