Description

Overview:

In this activity, students watch the ASHP documentary Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great Warwith documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the documentary's key concepts of Jim Crow, lynching, sharecropping, migration, and life in northern cities. At the end of the activity, students complete a short writing task on how life changed and how it stayed the same for migrants, and how they tried to improve their lives in the North.

Subject:

U.S. History

Level:

High School

Material Type:

Activity/Lab

Provider:

City University of New York

Provider Set:

Social History for Every Classroom

Date Added:

11/21/2019