WORKING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: ADVANCING BLACK WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE 1850s

In the Classroom

This teaching guide can be taught in conjunction with Kabria Baumgartner’s article “Gender Politics and the Manual Labor College Initiative at National Colored Conventions in Antebellum America,” which appears in the volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (2021), edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Paterson, published by the  University of North Carolina Press. For more information on the contents of the volume and where to find it, visit coloredconventions.org/about/book.

Credits

K-12 Teaching Guide: Prepared by Nakisha Whittington (Curriculum and Instruction PhD Candidate, Penn State).

Reviewed by Denise G. Burgher (Curriculum Chair and English PhD candidate, Univ. of Delaware) and Janel Moore Almond (Colored Conventions Project Teaching Advisory Board).

College/AP Classes Teaching Guide: Prepared by Samantha de Vera (History PhD candidate at UC San Diego) in collaboration with P. Gabrielle Foreman (CBDR Co-director, Penn State). Reviewed by Janel Moore Almond.

Curriculum Proofreading: Aimee Gee (librarian, Univ. of Delaware).

Curriculum Layout Design and Review: Sam De Vera (PhD candidate, UC San Diego), Michelle Byrnes (undergraduate, Penn State), Lauren Earl (MLIS student, Syracuse University) and Lauren Cooper (CBDR librarian, Penn State).