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Inclusive Teaching Resources (Visual materials and transformative pedagogies)

This guide is a collection of inclusive image collections that I have found from a variety of sources. I'm expecting that this will be a guide that changes over time as I find more resources. This guide also contains a transformative pedagogy literature r

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three black and white photos from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

 

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Lorraine Hansberry the first African American playwright to win the New York Drama Critics Circle award for her play A Raisin in the Sun. Credit: 5048928 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library.

The Lenox and Fifth Avenue Tenants League demands fair housing conditions and tenant rights. Date: 1949. Credit: 4034084 Photographer: Louis Dummett. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library.

Family moving into the Riverton Houses at 2225 fifth avenue. Date:1947. Credit: 4015338 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library.

 

The resources on this page provide diverse and inclusive visual materials relating to history and archival research. If you have any questions about the resources listed on this page or any resource suggestions, please feel free to email me at jkflemin@iu.edu.

History

  • Black New Yorkers: This exhibit is a survey of 400 years of African-American history in New York. The exhibit is made up of essays, prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, tables, and newspapers.
  • Project Stand: As described on their website, Project Stand is an archival consortia between colleges and universities across the country, "to create a centralized digital space highlighting analog and digital collections emphasizing student activism in marginalized communities".
  • ZINN Education Project: This is a teaching resource that provides free lesson plans about peoples history with an emphasis on minority communities.
  • Oh Freedom! Teaching Art and the Civil Rights Movement: This resource is made to assist educators in the instruction of the Civil Rights movement. The resource includes more than three dozen artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.