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Rhode Island's civil rights history rarely makes the national story, but it runs the whole length of the 20th century: fights over housing, jobs and schools, high-school walkouts, and community leaders who pushed the state to change. A free online collection from the Rhode Island Historical Society gathers that history for classrooms, and it is part of the National Park Service's African American Civil Rights Network.
What is in it
The collection, 20th Century African Heritage Civil Rights in Rhode Island, came out of a multi-year project funded by the Park Service and carried out by three partners: the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, and the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.
| Part | What it offers |
|---|---|
| Four unit plans | one for elementary grades, one for middle grades, two for high school |
| Primary sources | newspaper articles, photographs, and oral history audio and video from the partners and other Rhode Island organisations |
| A context statement | the historical background, prepared by The Public Archaeology Laboratory |
| Two exhibits, online | Rhode Island African Heritage Civil Rights History: A Summary of over 300 Years of History, and The Power of Place in Civil Rights: African American Struggle for Civil Rights in the 20th Century |
What the lessons cover
The units work through fair housing, fair employment, equal schooling, race and identity. The high-school units go further, into student protests, the different forms activism can take, and the community leaders behind them, with examples from across the century connected to today's news.
The two exhibits
- The first is a timeline of African heritage in Rhode Island, from enslavement to the end of the 20th century.
- The second is about the people, places, organisations and events of the state's civil rights movement. Many of the people in it recorded oral histories for the project, and every place in it was documented in the project's survey of historic sites.
Everything — lesson plans and exhibit panels alike — is free to use from the Historical Society's site.
The network
The African American Civil Rights Network, created by the African American Civil Rights Act of 2017 and coordinated by the National Park Service, links public and private places, programmes and resources that tell the story of the civil rights movement in the United States and of the people who fought discrimination and segregation.
Sources
Written from "Rhode Island: 20th Century African Heritage Civil Rights in Rhode Island," National Park Service, African American Civil Rights Network; a work of the United States government in the public domain.
Licens: CC0 1.0 (offentligt eje) · Bearbejdet efter www.nps.gov
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