Willis Young

SIUE East St. Louis Charter School

AAM affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

wiyoung@siue.edu

Lesson Plan description and Rationale: Students will be able to explain how a significant historical event can have many causes.

State Standards/s:

State Goal 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements that shaped the history of Illinois, the U.S. and other nations.

Standard 16A - Apply skills of historical analysis and interpretations.

               16B - Understand the development of significant political events.

State Goal 18: Understand social systems with an emphasis on the U.S.

Standard 18A - Compare the characteristics of civilization as referenced

 in language, literature, the arts, traditions and institutions.

   18B - Understand how social systems form and develop over time.

Objectives: Gather historical information and explain the historical significance of World War II as it relates to African Americans.

Resources:

	Unknown “European Theater of Operations, Nurses in England.” 1944. NAACP Collection. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html [LC-USC4-6175/LC-USZ62-119985 (8-5)] [March 2004]
	Frissell, Toni “Tuskegee Airmen.” 1945. Silver gelatin print. African American Odyssey. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html [ LC-F9-02-4503-330-5 (8-6)] [March 2004]
	A. Philip Randolph Papers "Why Should We March?" March on Washington fliers, 1941. African American Odyssey. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html [mssmisc ody0808] [March 2004]

The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II (part 1)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8b.html

The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II (part 2)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html

Methods: Research wartime conditions African American had to endure during World War II.

• Students will explain what role African Americans played in World War II.
• Student will be able to describe what life was like for African Americans in the

United States during World War II.

• Students will tell how other Americans felt about African Americans during

World War II.

Evaluation: A written essay explaining their individual interpretation of photographs and articles.

Keywords for this lesson: Great Depression, African American, Civil Rights, World War II,

State Goal 16, State Goal 18

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