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Theme

Great Migration

Explore this theme across 8 historical figures, 3 heritage sites,23 lessons, 0 cultural references, and 1 journeys.

Historical Figures

Heritage Sites

Curriculum Lessons

Two Peoples, Two Societies: The Taino and the Kalinago

Unit 1

The Reality of the 'Closing' — The Second Middle Passage (1808–1815)

Unit 3.5

The Tirailleurs Senegalais: Africa's Soldiers in France's War

Unit 4

Disenfranchisement, Jim Crow & the Red Summer

Unit 4.5

The Three Pillars: Black Church, HBCUs, and the Divine Nine

Unit 4.5

Peonage and the Debt Trap: Slavery by Another Name

Unit 4.5

Harlem Renaissance to Negritude: The Atlantic Circuit

Unit 5

Pan-Africanism: The Full Ideological Arc — Blyden to the OAU

Unit 5

African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation

Unit 6

From Plantation to Algorithm: The Digital Life of Colorism

Unit 6

Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem

Unit 6.5

The Harlem Renaissance: Remaking Black Identity Through Art

Unit 6.5

The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built

Unit 6.5

The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora

Unit 7

The Great Migration: Urban Cultural Transformation

Unit 7

Economic Self-Determination: From Mutual Aid to Black Wall Street

Unit 7

Running North: Black Canada and the Diaspora's Northern Arc

Unit 7.5

Resistance as Migration, Then and Now: The Diaspora's Unfinished Work

Unit 7.5

Black Wall Street and the Architecture of Black Wealth

Unit 8

Art as Memory, Resistance and Imagination

Unit 10

Many Paths, One Community: Religious Diversity in Black America

Unit 10

La Sentencia: Statelessness and the Fight for Recognition

Unit 10

The Evolution of Black Gospel Music

Unit 10

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