The Chronicles of up from Slavery: A Teacher’s Guide

By Obiora N Anekwe

The Chronicles of Up from Slavery: A Teachers Guide was written by Dr. Obiora N. Anekwe in order to help first-year college students develop an oral history project and theatrical production based on 
Dr. Booker T. Washingtons autobiography, Up from Slavery. The book is also appropriate for usage among high school students. Dr. Anekwe wrote his teachers guide during his tenure as an academic administrator at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. During April of 2010, he executive produced and directed his first-year students oral history lecture and theatrical production in the Tuskegee University Chapel. After the productions overwhelming success, Dr. Anekwe presented a joint paper based on the process of creating the Booker T. Washington Writers Desk at the School of Visual Arts Annual Conference in Manhattan, New York, and the Robert R. Taylor Symposium at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984518491

Obiora N Anekwe

Obiora N. Anekwe is a writer, visual artist, bioethicist, counselor, and teacher. To date, he has authored and co-authored 15 books. He was born in Tuskegee Institute, Alabama on the campus of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) at the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital. Dr. Anekwe was reared in Lagos, Nigeria and Columbus, Georgia. He is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University (B.A., mass media arts with honors), Tuskegee University (M.Ed., counseling and student development with honors), Auburn University (Ed.D., educational leadership with honors), Columbia University in the City of New York (M.S., bioethics with high honors and distinction), and Pace University (M.S.T., special education with honors). Dr. Anekwe is a tenured public school special education teacher who resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Rev. Alexis S. Anekwe, and their son, Amari O. Anekwe.

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Copyright © 2018 by Obiora N. Anekwe, M.Ed., Ed.D., M.S. Bioethics, M.S.T., SARSM

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Cover Art Description

The art collage entitled, The Chronicles of Up from Slavery, was created to reflect the vision Dr. Booker T. Washington had for the upliftment of black people in America after slavery. He was a visionary of his own time. But he also saw how his vision, if followed, could uplift the entire race. The collage’s bottom section shows a pair of hands that are freed from the shackles of physical chains. Dr. Washington’s philosophy of education emphasized that black Americans needed to possess an education that would help them to be free in every area of their existence. The head, heart, and hands needed to be trained and disciplined so that the entire black race could prosper. In Washington’s view, individual progress was limiting, but progress as a race benefited our people in the long term. The profile image above the unchained hands is modeled after a statue of Dr. Booker T. Washington. This statue is located on the campus of Dr. Washington’s alma mata, Hampton University. In this image, Dr. Washington is symbolically pointing toward freedom, but he is also calling us to educate the head, heart, and hands in order to liberate ourselves and our people from spiritual and mental servitude.

Obiora N. Anekwe

The Chronicles of Up from Slavery

c. 2018

Materials: Mixed media paper, acrylic paint, colored silver pen, and pastels

9½ by 16 inches

Brooklyn, New York

Contents

Cover Art Description

Introduction

Overview

Lesson Plans

Oral History Project

Communication Project Assignment

Time Management Project Assignment

Budgeting Project Assignment

Library Research Project Assignment

The Booker T. Washington Monument Project Assignment

The Chancel Windows Project Assignment

Historical Street Signs Project Assignment

The Components and Phases of Production

Sample Theatrical Production

Sample Theatrical Production Budget

Sample Information Letter

Sample First-Year Student Information Form

Sample Pre-Production Survey Evaluation

Sample Post Production Survey Evaluation

Definitions and Terms

References

Appendices

The Chronicles of Up from Slavery

Theatrical Production’s Outline of Scenes

The Aesthetic Preservation and Historical Usage of

the First-Year Students’ Designed Writer’s Desk in the

Theatrical Production entitled, The Chronicles of Up from

Slavery

References

Up from Slavery: Directions for the On-line Book Version

The Chronology of Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery: Questions for Essay and Group Discussion

Historic Mural Description

Photographic Images of Historic Mural

Introduction

I am pleased to publish The Chronicles of Up from Slavery: A Teacher’s Guide. As director and executive producer of the theatrical production, I know that the participation of your students will assist in making the production educational and worthwhile. As you read the teacher’s guide, you will learn more about the theatrical production and its purpose.

Although this teacher’s guide was originally written for first-year college students, it can also be used among a variety of school groups, including those students in high school.

Based on the life work of Dr. Booker T. Washington and the establishment of Tuskegee University, The Chronicles of Up from Slavery is rooted in the historical context of Dr. Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, Up from Slavery. Dr. Booker T. Washington’s commanding presence and oratory deeply moved his contemporaries. His life