Week 5- The “Problem of the Color-Line” and Lynching                                         (Ida B. Wells-Barnett/W.E.B DuBois)

Videos:

• Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
• W.E.B DuBois: Intellectual and Activist
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois – The Forethought & Chapter 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivings
• Double Consciousness by W.E.B DuBois

Texts:

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett Timeline
• W.E.B DuBois Background Information and Photographs

 

Week 6-Institutionalizing African-American Life (Mary Church Terrell/ Anna Julia Cooper/ Carter G. Woodson)

Videos:

• Carter G. Woodson: African-American Trailblazers

Texts:

• Mary Church Terrell Biography
• Mary Church Terrell Speech
• Anna Julia Cooper Biography
• Anna Julia Cooper Speech
• Carter G. Woodson Biography
• “The Mis-Education of the Negro” by Carter G. Woodson

 

Week 7- Education and Empowerment                                                                        (Mary McLeod Bethune/Septima Clark)

Videos:

• Video on Mary McLeod Bethune

Texts:

• Mary McLeod Bethune Biography
• Septima Clark Biography

Week 8-The Quest for Full Citizenship and Democratic Justice (Ella Baker/ Martin Luther King)

Videos:

• Ella Baker Biography
• MLK Documentary
• MLK Letters from Birmingham Jail
• MLK I Have a Dream Speech
• MLK Mountaintop Speech

Texts:

• Who was Ella Baker?