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This set of lesson plans have been designed in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of History and Culture based on their 2019-2020 ground-breaking exhibit, Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality.
These lessons explore four different time periods within the 400-year timeline covered in Determined:
- 1775-1865: Slavery at High Tide, exploring the most painful paradox of American history: our nation’s foundation on both the principle of liberty and the reality of slavery
- 1865-1950 Progress & Backlash, delving into the profound changes experienced in Virginia and throughout the US from the end of the Civil War through World War II
- 1950 to 1968: The road from “Brown to Green” and to the demand for justice that led to the Civil Rights Act
- 1968 to Today, asking the question, Has Equality been Achieved?
Lesson plans are available for middle school and high school classrooms:
This project was made possible through generous support from the Virginia Law Foundation.
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