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The Black History Library

Help me give my students a starter library for AP African American Studies class.

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My Project

As we bring AP African American Studies to the campus we want to make sure that students have the resources available to do research. Each of the books listed on this project gives students the opportunity to learn African American history from leading scholars in the field. Part of the AP course is students completing an independent research project over any topic that sparks their interests in African American Studies. By creating this library, especially the Africana Encyclopedia series, we are giving them ample credible and relevant resources to complete their individual project.

Students will use these resources to create an interactive Black History Museum in February that the entire campus community is invited to.

Students act as docents for their individual projects explaining the historical context of their topic. This is our way of teaching our campus about the varied history of the African American experience.

At the end of the year students will also be tasked with completing an oral defense of their project. Students must make a claim about the historical moment that they selected.

Our classroom library will ensure that students have collegiate-level sources to begin building their historical knowledge. They will also have the opportunity to see just how other historians have curated their own narratives about the history of African Americans.

Ms. Thomas Energy Institute High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (5 Volume Set) • Amazon Business $619.76 1 $619.76
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present • Amazon Business $102.99 1 $102.99
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story • Amazon Business $19.43 1 $19.43
Black America: Historic Moments, Key Figures & Cultural Milestones from the African-American Story (Fox Chapel Publishing) Civil Rights Movement, Harlem Renaissance, BLM, and More (Visual History) • Amazon Business $16.02 1 $16.02
A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History) • Amazon Business $11.50 1 $11.50
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning History) • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39

Materials cost

$780.09

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$821.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$145.02

Total project goal

$966.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $966.81

9 Donors

-$479.58

Donations toward project cost

-$410.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.68

match offer

-$483.40

Match offer toward project cost

-$410.89

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.51

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.83

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 $0.00

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