Links to Claudia Stack’s books:
School Belongs to Me
A picture book that helps children understand African American education heritage
Rosenwald School Reflections: Documentation and Preservation
A guide to researching and preserving Rosenwald schools, and documenting their oral history
Sharecrop Companion Guide: Stories from the South’s Forgotten Farmers
A companion to the Sharecrop documentary (available on Amazon Prime Video), with vignettes about the ten people featured in the film and companion lesson plans (differentiated with handouts included for grades 3-college)
Links to Claudia Stack’s articles on African American history:
From Sloop Point Rosenwald School to NASA: Dr. Johnny Batts (9/17/21)
The “Black Homer” of West Southern Pines, NC (7/15/21)
Tuskegee Airman Was Born in Winston-Salem and Taught at Pender County Training School Before Taking to the Air (6/29/21)
The Historic Baltimore Schoo in Bladen County, NC (6/20/21)
Glimpses of Enslaved Life on a Cape Fear River Rice Plantation (6/2/21)
Rosenwald Schools: An Example of African American Dedication to Education (6/2/21)
“There’s No Such Thing as an African American” (5/24/21)
Ledger Books Kept Some African Americans Captive Long after Emancipation (5/6/21)
Road Signs Point to the Cape Fear Region’s Plantation Past (4/2/21)
A Brief History of the Canetuck Rosenwald School in Pender County, NC (3/11/21)
Mercantiles, Lenders, Post Offices and Gathering Places: Southern General Stores Played Many Roles (2/27/21)
Booker T. Washington’s Legacy in Wilmington, NC (2/20/21)
Years Apart, Two African American Women Embodied the Spirit of Their Times (2/14/21)
The Ones Who Stayed: African Americans in the South During the Great Migration (2/6/21)
The Filmmaker We Need Now: Frederick DeShon Murphy (1/17/21)
3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Ask Employees to Provide Free Diversity Training (1/2/21)
Tobacco Farming in Southeastern NC (10/31/20)
Our African American Students Have an Incredible Education Heritage (7/27/20)
The Builders: SC and Venetta Anderson Left an Enduring Legacy (7/13/20)
Black history matters (7/4/20)
Dr. George E. Davis, groundbreaking African American educator, deserves a statue (6/14/20)
A step towards economic justice: Right the wrongs done to African American veterans of WW II (5/31/20)
Of Michael Jordan, Baseball, and Potatoes (5/9/20)
To Answer Trump’s Question…(4/15/20)
Sharecrop: Delta Cotton (4/13/20)
The Daniels: Leaders in Excellence at an NC Rosenwald School (4/10/20)
What’s New is Old (3/21/20)
The Inversion (Part Two): African Americans and Education — The Equalization and Desegregation Era (2/9/20)
Lessons from My African American Neighbors (1/26/20)
The Inversion: African Americans and Education (Part One) (12/1/19)