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Six on New York: When You're Trapped On A Stalled Subway Car; New York newsboys fighting back; Hacked Border Surveillance Firm Wants To Profile Drivers, Passengers, and Their “Likely Trip Purpose” In New York City; The N-YHS Curriculum Library can be your next summer read!; What Our Reporter Learned Delivering Burritos to New Yorkers; Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe




Newsies on Strike! The thrilling tale of New York newsboys fighting back







The N-YHS Curriculum Library can be your next summer read! [good free materials!]

"Curriculum Spotlight

Women & the American Story (WAMS)

Women & the American Story | Digital Curriculum

Only 13 percent of historical figures in US history textbooks are women. WAMS is here to fill that gap.



WAMS places women front and center in the American past. Although they have always been active historical agents, women have too-often been overlooked by textbooks and curriculum standards. WAMS demonstrates the myriad ways women participated in and contributed to America's past, highlighting their diverse experiences through dynamic resources and life stories.
When complete, WAMS will span the full U.S. history survey in ten units. Two new units will launch each November until 2022. Early Encounters: 1492-1734 and Modernizing America: 1889-1920 are available now.







Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow

The decades following the Civil War saw African Americans champion their rights to full citizenship and racial equality even as the "separate but equal" age of Jim Crow began. This curriculum explores both the activism for and opposition to black citizenship rights. Resources consider how freedom and citizenship were redefined by government and citizen action, and challenged by legal discrimination and violence.  

Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion

This curriculum chronicles the Chinese American experience in the United States. Struggles over freedom and the right to belong shaped this history from America's earliest days as a new nation searching for trade with China, through the 19th century and its fraught contests over immigration and citizenship for Chinese workers, to the Cold War and the impact of political and ideological power struggles on those hoping to immigrate and those already living in the United States. The resources in this guide explore exclusion and inclusion in American society during these eras from multiple perspectives. 


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What Our Reporter Learned Delivering Burritos to New Yorkers


Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe;


"In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that stretched from 145th to 155th street and was bookended by Amsterdam Avenue to the west and Edgecombe Avenue to the east. For the Black elite, it was the most prestigious and coveted place to live in Harlem from the mid-1920s through the 1950s; the Pulitzer-Prize winning author David Levering Lewis explained it as “a citadel of stately apartment buildings and liveried doormen on a rock…” Built in 1917, 409 Edgecombe was the tallest and most exclusive apartment house—and “quite the party center” according to the prolific leftist poet Langston Hughes in his autobiography The Big Sea. As well, noted the Pan-Africanist, Black Marxist, and prodigious activist-intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois, it was conveniently located “very near the bus stop at 155th street.” 409 Edgecombe is well known for housing Harlem Renaissance notables like Aaron Douglas, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leaders like Walter White, and, as historian LaShawn Harris brilliantly conveys, the numbers banker and “militant enemy of the Harlem Police” Madame Stephanie St. Clair.












Absent from these representations is 409 Edgecombe as a site alive with Black left-wing activism, organizing, and strategizing—in other words, as a site of radical Blackness in the era spanning the Popular Front and the entrenchment of McCarthyism. It was there that organizations like the Sojourners for Truth and Justice were founded and meetings of radical organizations including the Civil Rights Congress and the Council on African Affairs were held. It was a hub of support for Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.’s City Council campaigns and Du Bois’s run for the New York seat of the U.S. Senate. Within its walls, the pathbreaking 1951 petition to the United Nations, We Charge Genocide,"




 was drafted, edited, and revised. Undoubtedly, it abounded with discussions and debates about the content of left-wing publications from People’s Voice to Freedom. As such, this exclusive building was a space that cultivated radical Black internationalism, Black Marxism, and Black women’s militancy."














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