Learning Goals
Students will be able to synthesize archival, historical, and literary evidence about maroon communities, abolitionist movements, the Underground Railroad, Black political organizing, self-emancipation, and Juneteenth to explain continuity and change in Black resistance traditions.
Students will be able to evaluate differing historical accounts and perspectives on Black freedom, citizenship, abolition, self-determination, and emancipation by assessing claims, reasoning, evidence, context, and limitations.
Students will be able to analyze how maroon communities, abolitionist movements, the Underground Railroad, Black institutions, and Civil War self-emancipation used trust, communication, shelter, safety planning, coalition-building, and collective action under pressure.
Students will be able to investigate organizers’ experiences and synthesize interview evidence into an evidence-based problem statement, user needs, and ethical design criteria for a practical organizing resource.
Students will be able to ideate and prototype multiple accessible tools that translate historical insights into planning prompts without prescribing one strategy or treating historical and contemporary conditions as interchangeable.
Students will be able to test, refine, and justify a collaborative organizing tool using evidence about user usefulness, clarity, accessibility, historical accuracy, ethical design, and the potential benefits and harms of emerging technology.
Products
Black Resistance Research and User-Research Design Portfolio
Each student independently compiles source evaluations, comparative historical case studies, organizer interview analysis, an evidence-based problem statement, multiple concept sketches, and a testable prototype with benefits-and-harms analysis and reflection. The portfolio documents how historical and firsthand user evidence shaped the student’s design choices and revisions.
Historically Grounded Organizing Tool and From History to Action Expo Demonstration
Teams use members’ research and prototypes to create, test, revise, and publicly demonstrate an accessible resource for a partner organizer, accompanied by a concise account of evidence, design tradeoffs, technology benefits and harms, limitations, and prototype-to-final changes. Organizer, Schomburg, CUP, peer, and teacher feedback informs the final handoff.
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