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African Americans Abroad
In this Focus On, the AASC examines the history of African Americans overseas. While some were already famous, others left expressly in search of improved political, economic, or artistic fortune.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Family trees can reveal some surprising ancestors for African Americans. In studying my own lineage, I discovered a relative whose experiences in the Civil War informed his actions in the movement for Civil Rights....
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| Use the Oxford African American Studies Center to bring online learning into the classroom. | Vital statistics and reference articles on countries that have been central to the history of Africans and African Americans. | Explore photo essays on important events, people, and themes in African American history. |
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Steve Marantz
In 1968, Omaha Central High School became embroiled in the battle against segregation. Today, that struggle continues in a different form as the community’s educators and students take a stand against the institutionalized inequality of the American school system.
What's New
- 12 new Primary Source Documents covering folk stories, oral narratives, and songs
- 124 AANB articles
- A new lesson plan titled “Language and Controversy”
- New teacher resource, “Music in the Era of Civil Rights”
- A Family Tree on the Mossells, a prominent Philadelphia family
- A Guest Editorial by Steven Marantz, discussing the subject matter of his book The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central
- New letter from the editor titled From the Civil War to Civil Rights
- New Focus On discussing African Americans abroad
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Feature
- October 2011 Highlights:
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- African American National Biography: Over a dozen Medal of Honor recipients, including Freddie Stowers(WWI), Robert Penn(Spanish-American War), and John Warrior, a black Seminole Indian scout.
- Primary Sources: Fiction by African American writers: AASC includes The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature in its entirety, along with some of the most influential short stories by black writers, including Reginald McKnight’s "Palm Wine", Colleen McElroy's "Amazing Grace and Floating Opportunity", and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s "The Ingrate".
- Teacher Resources page: In the latest addition to the Teacher Resources series, educator Barbara Tischler (Horace Mann School, New York) discusses the deep connection between the Civil Rights Movement and modern music, and shows how teachers can use the history of music to bring the era to life.
- Pro Football Hall of Fame: Read more about new Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, along with other famous African Americans who have helped to create the modern game, including Warren Moon, Marion Motley, and Gayle Sayers.
- Writing About African American History with Primary Sources
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Part of our new Teacher Resources page, this guide shows the best methods for utilizing primary documents in the classroom and the library.
- Family Trees
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The first in our series details the family history of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, whose lineage can be traced back to his great-great-grandfather, and whose children and grandchildren continued his social activism well into the twentieth century.
What's Inside
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Over 10,000 articles from Oxford's authoritative reference program — with primary source documents, images, maps, chart and tables, and much more!
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Search and Browse features allow you to focus and refine results by era and subject category.
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Primary Source Documents, with specially written commentaries, take you through the personal and public histories of African Americans.
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Charts and tables provide information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts
