Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 14-219
Smithsonian Institution
Website Records, 2014
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the "Oh Freedom!: Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian" website, crawled on April 4, 2014. The website is jointly maintained by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It offers a new introduction to the Civil Rights movement through the unique lens of Smithsonian Institution collections by drawing connections among art, history, and social change and providing educators with tools to help students re-imagine and reinterpret the struggle for civil rights, justice, and equality in fresh ways. It includes a timeline, collections information, lesson plans, bibliographies, teaching guides, and student projects. Materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
- Oh Freedom!: Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian (Website)
Subject
- African Americans
- Art museums
- Civil rights
- Historical museums
- Museums -- Public relations
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Web sites
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 14-219, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records