Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History Through the NYC Tenements

FAIN: BH-301493-24

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Inc. (New York, NY 10002-3102)
Shirley Brown-Alleyne (Project Director: February 2024 to present)

Two one-week residential workshops for 60 middle and high-school educators to study community-based immigration and Black histories in the Civil War/Reconstruction and Ellis Island eras. 

The Tenement Museum requests a grant to support "Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History through the NYC Tenements," a new series of two one-week, residential workshops for Middle and High School educators. These workshops, to take place at the Tenement Museum in New York City on July 20-25 and August 3-8, 2025, invite 60 educators to examine the stories and experiences of immigrant and Black families and communities at two key moments, the Civil War/Reconstruction (1860s-1870s) and the Ellis Island era of immigration (1890s-1920s). Through guided tours of the Museum, conversations with leading scholars, and visits to other key historic and cultural sites, participants will identify new ways to explore themes of race and identity in their curricula; relate Black and im/migrant history in their teaching; and explore the evolution of legislation that shaped experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and American identity for these and other families and communities.