Lesson Plans
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Summer Teachers’ Seminar
Hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
July 6-12, 2014
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Instructor: Jonathan Holloway (Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies)
Gilder Lehrman Institute Master Teacher: Michael Galatioto
Gilder Lehrman Center Program Coordinator: David Spatz
Course Overview:
This seminar explores the rise of Jim Crow in the United States and tracks it forward to its modern post-civil rights manifestations. Seminar participants will work with a range of primary sources to interpret the shifting social, economic, political, psychological, and cultural trauma associated with this set of racial practices. Close attention will be paid to the effects of Jim Crow on both sides of the color line.
Lesson Plans:
As part of the program, these lessons plans were developed by the teachers who participated in the summer seminar.
Land and Citizenship during Reconstruction
Integrationists vs. Segregationists
Assimilationists vs. Accomodationists
The History of Minstrel Shows and Jim Crow
Miscegenation and anti-miscegenation legislation in the United States
Women of Color: the Role of Women in the Fight Against Jim Crow
Black Women during Slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow
Lynching: Viewing its psychological effect on American
Ida B. Wells-Barnett “Mob murder in a Christian nation,” 1909
History of the Harlem Renaissance
Overcoming Racial Discrimination and Legalized Segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces
African American Soldiers in World War II