Learning Pathway: Racial Justice and Black Lives Matter

The Racial Justice and Black Lives Matter Learning Pathway features four digital choice boards: Black Lives Historical Explorations; Black History Month; History of the Black Press; and Exploring Black History with ChatGPT. There are also links to Black History topics throughout our Building Democracy for All eBook.

Building Democracy For All is designed so that teachers and students can follow different learning pathways as they explore the material in the book. Rather than proceeding sequentially through the standards, the learning pathways invite a thematic approach. Other learning pathways include: Student Rights, Influential Women, Election 2024, 2022, & 2020Media Literacy, and Current Events.

external image 200px-Paperback_book_black_gal.svg.png A Worthy Piece of Work: The Ontold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools. Michael Hines, Beacon Press, 2024. Read a review of the book here.

You will find more racial justice and Black Lives Matter resources in the AP African American Studies section of our resourcesforhistoryteachers wiki.

Black Lives Matter Choice Board

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Black Lives Matter Choice Board by Robert W. Maloy, Ed.D. & Torrey Trust, Ph.D.,
College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0

Black History Month Choice Board

(click here to make your own copy of the choice board)

Black History Month Choice Board
Black History Month Choice Board by Robert W. Maloy, Ed.D. & Torrey Trust, Ph.D.,
College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0

History of the Black Press in the U.S. Choice Board

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History of the Black Press Choice Board
History of the Black Press Choice Board by Robert W. Maloy, Ed.D. & Torrey Trust, Ph.D.,
College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0

Racial Justice and Black Lives Matter Content & Activities by Chapter

Topic 1: The Philosophical Foundations of the United States Political System

Topic 2: The Development of United States Government

Historical African-American
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, George Washington Carver and Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Historical African-American Figures" | Public Domain

Topic 3: Institutions of United States Government

Topic 4: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens

African-American Monument
"African-American Monument, Savannah, GA, US"
by Jud McCranie is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Topic 5: The Constitution, Amendments, and Supreme Court Decisions

Topic 6: The Structure of Massachusetts State and Local Government

Civil rights demonstration
"Civil rights demonstration in front of a segregated theater Tallahassee, Florida"
by  Florida Memory | No Restrictions

Topic 7: Freedom of the Press and News/Media Literacy

Additional Resources

Critical Media Literacy Connection: Explore Black History with ChatGPT

The "Exploring Black History with ChatGPT" choice board offers educators and students a way to develop their critical media literacy skills as they investigate text from ChatGPT and explore Black history in the United States (click here to make your own copy of the choice board to remix/use). Given ChatGPT’s potential for generating misinformation and biased information, these activities offer students a critical way to investigate how ChatGPT writes about Black lives and history, and potentially consider why this may be.

Exploring Black history with ChatGPT choice board


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