Examine economic developments of and for African Americans post-WWI, including the spending power and the development of black businesses and innovations.
Clarifications
Clarification 1: Instruction includes leaders who advocated differing economic viewpoints (e.g., Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, W.E.B. DuBois, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]).
Clarification 2: Instruction includes the Double Duty Dollar Campaign as an economic movement to encourage community self-sufficiency.
Clarification 3: Instruction includes the impact of Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company.
Clarification 4: Instruction includes the contributions of black innovators, entrepreneurs and organizations to the development and growth of black businesses and innovations (e.g., National Negro Business League, National Urban League, Universal Negro Improvement Association [UNIA], NAACP, Annie Malone, Madame C.J. Walker, Negro Motorist Green Book, Charles Richard Patterson of C.R. Patterson & Sons, Suzanne Shank, Reginald F. Lewis).
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: African American History
Date Adopted or Revised: 05/24
Status: State Board Approved
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