A Collaboration between the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan’s African American Legacy Program and Learning To Give. For questions about this project please call (313) 961-6675 or visit the Community Foundation on the web.
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and Learning to Give saw an opportunity to gather classroom educational materials with African American perspective and content and make them readily available to teachers at no charge on Learning to Give’s Web site. Available in both Web and print media, African American Perspectives celebrates the contributions of these outstanding advocates and
philanthropists..
May you and your students be inspired by its ideas and stories.
Marian Wright Edelman
African American Lessons ( K-2 | 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 )
Content about famous historical and Civil Rights advocates, majority rule and minority rights, the roots and costs of prejudice, the importance of tolerance and diversity, and the significant role of the nonprofit sector in each of these areas.
African American Philanthropy Profiles
Three-to-eight-page papers which act as “Cliff Notes” for educators on the concepts, people and organizations linked with African American and minority philanthropy.
African American Annotated Bibliography
This bibliography includes resources used in the African American Perspective lessons from Learning to Give. Recommended resources are also included and tied to corresponding lessons.
African American Quotations
Over 100 inspirational quotations by people from Maya Angelou to Booker T. Washington—the “voices” of African American men and women.
