The full title of this page is "African Americans in Massachusetts: Case Studies of Desegregation in 19th Century Nantucket and Boston." It features a timeline that covers the mid-19th century cases in Nantucket and Boston concerning the right to free and desegregated public education, as well as the broader state and national context. Primary sources keyed to the timeline reside in a searchable database which supplies downloadable images and additional background information. Sample lessons offer ideas for using the timeline and primary sources which you can adapt to fit your own curriculum needs.

Concepts

desegregation, african american history

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Additional Tags

desegregation history, african american, african american experience, african american timeline, massachusetts history, historical background of african americans

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information