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Introduction

This web page is a resource for teachers who are planning a unit on the Great Migration, or are supervising History Fair projects on Migration-related topics such as how jazz came to Chicago. The links provided below are to sites owned by institutions other than the Chicago Jazz Archive; CJA is not responsible for the content or availability of information at those links.

Classroom and Curriculum Resources

• From CUIP, a partnership between the University of Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools:
  • The Harlem Renaissance

  • The Great Migration

  • Langston Hughes

  • Richard Wright's Black Boy

• Felicia R. McKinnon's "A Film and Literature Study of The African - American Migration" from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

• From DiscoverySchool.com:
  • The Great Migration lesson plan

  • African-American Population Shifts
  • Jazz

• Curricular resources from the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

• Lesson plans on jazz and Black Migration from PBS.

• The Jazz Image: resource guide from Minnesota Public Radio.

• Jazz in America lesson plans from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

• Harlem 1900-1940: Teacher Resources from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

• Great Migration curriculum resources from the Kennedy Center.

• Great Migration Resource Page from the University of Illinois - Chicago.

• Teaching with historic places: Chicago's Black Metropolis courtesy of the National Park Service.

• Chicago's Black Metropolis from DePaul University.

• The Library's African-American Studies page

Media

• Up South: African-American migration in the era of the Great War Video and resources from the American Social History Project at CCNY.

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