W.E.B. Du Bois Interactive Biography - Black History Month Activity - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This W.E.B. Du Bois interactive biography turns a ninety-five year argument about American race and empire into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Du Bois (1868-1963) from a small Massachusetts town to Fisk, Harvard and Berlin, through the founding of the NAACP and the editorship of The Crisis, to a late radicalism that ended in citizenship renounced and a grave in Ghana. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the Great Barrington childhood and the first sight of the South at Fisk, the Harvard and Berlin years and the first serious sociology of Black America, the Atlanta years and The Souls of Black Folk, the founding of the NAACP and the editing of The Crisis through the First World War, and the late radicalism, the federal trial, and the exile in Ghana - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 48 events setting Du Bois's life beside the collapse of Reconstruction and the spread of Jim Crow, the Red Summer of 1919 and the Harlem Renaissance, the two world wars, the Cold War, and African independence - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from Great Barrington through Fisk, Harvard and Berlin, the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia, Atlanta University, the Niagara meeting at Fort Erie, the Pan-African Congresses in Paris, London and Manchester, and Accra - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his rival Booker T. Washington,
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