Chicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History through a Historic Place.

Danzer, Gerald A.

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ERIC Number: EJ600279

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1998

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Chicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History through a Historic Place.

Danzer, Gerald A.

Social Education, v62 n3 pps1-16 Mar 1998

Presents a lesson that focuses on specific places in Chicago's Black Metropolis and examines the process by which buildings become historic structures. Explains that the lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, "Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination," and could be used in a unit on 20th-century urban history. (CMK)

Descriptors: Black History, Buildings, Community Influence, Community Problems, Cultural Awareness, Historic Sites, Local History, Migration, Primary Sources, Secondary Education, Social History, Social Studies, Student Attitudes, Urban Studies

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers

Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago)

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