Iowa Public Television

You've heard of Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks, but do you know Iowa's Civil Rights heroes? Did you know Iowa schools were legally integrated in 1867, just two years after the Civil War? This ICN will cover many of the interesting Civil Rights activities Iowa has hosted from before the Civil War through to modern times. Encourage your students to think about what's right and wrong while taking pride in their Iowa heritage.

All participants should email the presenter at education@blackiowa.org for a worksheet to be filled out by students during the presentation.

Students should bring the worksheet and a pencil to watch the ICN.

Vocabulary:

• Right
• Privilege
• Sit-in
• Non-violent
• Protest
• Discrimination
• Harmony
• Integration
• Segregation

This workshop is offered at no cost by the African American Museum of Iowa.

Confirmed registrations for this session receive a complimentary copy of the book Portraits of African-American Heroes for you classroom.

Teacher Resources

1. Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport.
2. If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine.
3. Freedom on the Menu by Carole Boston Weatherford.
4. Outside In: African American History in Iowa. Published by State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001.
5. Lost in History: Alexander Clark
6. Searching for Buxton
7. African-Americans in Iowa, 1838-2005

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Iowa Core Essential Concepts applied

Social Studies

• Behavior Sciences: Understand current social issues to determine how the individual formulates opinions and responds to issues
• Understand the changing nature of society.
• Understand the influences of individual and group behavior and group decision making.
• Understand how to investigate social research and information.
• History: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical things skills in order to interpret events and issues
• Understand how and why people create, maintain or change systems of power, authority and governance.
• Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintenance of societies.
• Understand the role of individuals and groups within a society as promoters of change or the status quo.
• History: Understand the effect of economic needs and wants on individual and group decisions
• History: Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
• Geography: Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments
• Geography: Understand how geographic and human characteristics create culture and define regions.
• Understand the use of data sources, atlases, data bases, grid systems, charts, graphs, and maps to generate, manipulate, and interpret information.
• Understand the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools and representations of the earth such as maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, grid systems, aerial and other photographs, GIS, satellite-produced images and databases.

Sessions are provided at no cost by Iowa Public Television in collaboration with the Iowa Communications Network to PK-12 students and the adults working with or on behalf of PK-12 students in Iowa. If you are not employed by a school district or an AEA please register at library sites only.

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