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Curriculum

The Black Teacher Archive is not only a repository. It can also be a teaching tool. The primary sources held here have always been in conversation with the classroom, and the curriculum resources here help to make that conversation explicit. Each resource is developed in direct relationship with BTA holdings and with the scholarship that grounds this archive's mission: that Black teachers were not just practitioners but theorists, architects of a pedagogical tradition that predates and exceeds any institution that tried to contain it.

Currently featured are two resources. More curriculum resources are in development.

Teaching Black History

Curriculum

Teaching Black History

Four project modules for high school students, grounding Black History Month in the long tradition of Black memory work documented in this archive.

Teaching Black History
The Black National Anthem

Curriculum

The Black National Anthem

Pairs Dr. Imani Perry's history of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with The Black Teacher Archive primary sources, like Colored Teacher Association Journals, school programs, correspondence, to trace how Black teachers made the anthem survive.

The Black National Anthem