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lesson:
Late Reconstruction featuring The Jubilee Singers

Who were the Jubilee Singers and how do their experiences reflect the final years of Reconstruction in the United States?

Student Edition:
Student Activism and Music During the Civil Rights Movement

Student Edition:
Music of the Civil Rights Movement

lesson:
Student Activism and Music During the Civil Rights Movement

How did activism by Black students challenge Jim Crow segregation during the Civil Rights Movement, and what unique role did music play as an organizing tool?

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Music of the Civil Rights Movement

How did music advance the goals and inform the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement?

lesson:
Swing Down: Afrofuturism & Flight in the Black Imagination

What is Afrofuturism and what are some of the cultural traditions and historical events that inspired and reinforced it?

lesson:
Almost Emancipated: Reconstruction

What is the significance of Reconstruction and what does it reveal about the freedom that the post-Civil War constitutional amendments secured for African Americans?

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The Banjo, Slavery, and the Abolition Debate

What is the relationship between the banjo and slavery, and how did music making by enslaved people influence the abolition debate during the 18th and early 19th century?

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Rhythm as a Representation of People and Place

How does “the beat” of popular music reflect the histories of multiethnic populations and places?