Aimee Young teaches in rural Ohio. She has studied in Poland and Israel, was awarded a teaching fellowship through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and earned the prestigious DisneyHAND American Teacher Award, given to just 38 teachers in the nation in 2004.
Alfred Tatum is an Associate Professor and Director of the Reading Clinic at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he also received his Ph.D. Dr. Tatum's research foci are adolescent literacy, teacher professional development, and the literacy development of African American males.
Jennifer L. Lieberman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Florida, and has taught classes to conventional and incarcerated students in subjects ranging from American literature and African-American literature to gender and women studies and the history of science, medicine, and technology. She was the Presidential Diversity and Inclusion Award winner and the Florida Blue Center for Ethics Fellow at her university in 2017, both for her work in ethics and social justice. Her book, Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952, is available from The MIT
Students will describe the roles that slavery, Native nations and African Americans played in the Revolutionary War. Maps to Key Concepts 2, 3, 5, 9 & 10 What else should my students know? 5.A The Declaration of
Episode 6, Season 4 Black American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence. Historian Kidada Williams amplifies perspectives from Black
“While in the Mindoka concentration camp, Idaho, during World War II, Frank Yamasaki refused his draft order. As a result, he was imprisoned at the McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington.”