Resource Collection February 18, 2025
Local and Global Legacies of Slavery
The Pulitzer Center connects educators and students to The 1619 Project resources and to one another, expanding and sustaining the influence of a journalistic project examining some of the most complex issues of our time. Our program partners have developed resources and learning models to support educators in expanding student understanding of United States history, developing students’ critical thinking skills, and cultivating empathy and community in their classrooms and school communities. This collection includes units from educators engaging with students at all age levels, elementary school to adult learners. These units examine slavery in the United States through a variety of lenses including global trade, local community histories, and the legacy of slavery in both social and political institutions. Units in this grouping can help make a history that may seem very abstract and removed to some learners more concrete, accessible, and relevant.
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Kindergarten and first grade students explore concepts of enslavement, resistance, and racial justice through an analysis of primary source documents reflecting resistance to slavery in Lowell, MA.
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Students examine the historical context of racism by tracking the evolving relationship between Black Americans and governing structures in the United States.
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Students apply literacy and writing skills to investigate the impact of the Columbian Exchange, colonization, and Transatlantic slave trade on the world’s economy and culture.
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Students apply research, photography, writing, and interview skills to explore the Black community's sense of belonging and memory in Athens, GA.
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Students explore the history of education inequity and activism nationally and in New Jersey. They then use their knowledge to determine the most effective ways to bring equity to urban education.
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Students in North Carolina study significant periods in the state's history and consider the long lasting legacy of slavery in all the United States today.
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In this unit, students will be able to identify the root causes of mass incarceration and their impact on communities of color.
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Students contrast the histories of migration by African Americans to Hawaiʻi and within the continental US and apply their analysis to a socratic seminar and written work.
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Students examine how contemporary racial inequities in health care services and outcomes, especially for Black women, are rooted in slavery.
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Students analyze how cultural traits diffuse and change, focusing on the impact of African culture on culture in the U.S., and apply their analyses to the creation of a photo project.
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Students explore the historical context to the current climate crisis, whose origins trace back to industrialization and the enslavement of African people.
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Students examine the rhetorical strategies of texts, photo essays, and podcasts from “The 1619 Project” in order to write rhetorical precis and an analytical essay.
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Units
Decolonizing Your Diet
Students explore world cultures through studying ingredients and food cultures brought to the United States due to slavery, colonization, and internal migration.
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Students use the tools of restorative narrative and storytelling to interrogate, consider, and critique the role and function of the United States legal system.
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A university professor and community-engaged educator convene a group of social studies teachers to build capacity for teaching honest history in the Deep South.
