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Great Migration Curriculum Materials
Driving Question
In the early 20th century, hundreds of thousands of African Americans left their homes and went to live somewhere else. Where were these migrants leaving from, where were they going, and why? What were the factors that motivated and enabled this migration?
Summary
The unit on the Great Migration will examine the first wave of migration between 1900 and 1930. Students will observe and consider the reasons for the changing distribution of African American population in the US in the early decades of the 20th century, and the impact that migration had on race relations in both rural South and urban North.
Objectives
Students will...
- Make observations, inferences, and questions about the first wave of the Great Migration (1900-1930)
- Analyze primary source documents and census data maps
- In pairs, study a Southern county in depth and compare it to surrounding counties and to a county in the North
- Present a historical narrative account of the Great Migration
Materials
- Students will use the Interactive Map Tool.
- Students will use the online document library of primary sources.
- Teachers can download the complete set of teaching materials, including:
- Unit overview (same as above)
- All 5 lesson plans
- Quiz
- 3 student worksheets
- 3 Rubrics
- Recommended resources
- Lesson 1 resources
- Teacher tracking sheet for student county assignments
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