![]() ![]() Black History Month Lessons and Activities. Black history and culture is such a part of the American fabric - - and the school curriculum - - that it's difficult to imagine a time when that wasn't so. Established as Negro History Week in the 1. Carter G. Woodson, February was chosen for the celebration because Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born in this month. In honor of Black History Month, Education World focuses on the history and culture of African Americans. Explore lesson plans and resources for your classroom. This institution which was the first source of land ownership for. Black History 1517-1997 Prepared by SFC Pernol EOA 1ID 1982 Singer Michael Jackson creates a sensation with the album Thriller, which becomes one of the most popular. Extended to a month- long celebration in 1. Black History Month is an opportunity to emphasize the history and achievements of African Americans. A Black History Treasure Hunt. Students learn about famous black Americans while polishing their Internet surfing skills. Four different hunts - - for students of all ages. Student work sheets included. Five Lessons in Black History. Primary source materials teach about Rosa Parks, school integration, and the growth of the African- American population throughout history. Plus: Students create a database/timeline and write a rap about a famous figure in Black History. More! Lessons to Celebrate Black History Month. Ten innovative activities to help you incorporate the African- American experience into your curriculum all year long. Langston Hughes Was a Dreamer Too. Learn how Langston Hughes expressed his dreams through poetry. Included: Internet- based activities to celebrate Black History Month. The Road to Freedom: Using the WWW to Teach About Slavery. These activities will help students trace the journey to freedom and learn about some of the heroes who paved the way. Included: Activities for teaching about slavery across the grades and the curriculum. Climb Aboard the Underground Railroad T. O. U. R. An online project for those studying the Underground Railroad. Facts, Information And Articles About Black History In The United States. Black History Summary: Black history is the study of African American history, culture, and. Explore black history milestones and events that shaped African-American history, including the Civil War, abolition of slavery and civil rights movement. The Black Church has historically been a source of hope and strength for the African American community. Project coordinators say, . Board of Education Celebrates 5. Years. On the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Education World offers this special lesson planning resource. Included: Links to more than 3 dozen lessons. An Experiment in Unfair Treatment/Prejudice. Pauline Finlay, who teaches at Holy Trinity Elementary School in Torbay, Newfoundland (Canada), submitted this lesson, which offers a simple experiment to help launch a discussion of unfair treatment and prejudice/bias. Share the quilt with your community. A Mirror Into History. Students create poems about themselves and a famous African American. They will see that they are not so different from the great people of our past and present. Famous African- American Fabric Portraits. Doris Metcalf, who recently retired from the Florence (Alabama) City Schools, submitted this lesson, in which students create a fabric- portrait exhibit of famous African Americans. Detailed History – Saint Ann’s Church & Shrine, Buffalo, NY » Saint Ann's Church & Shrine. Martin F. Ederer. Updated 1. 2/3. 1/2. The history of St. Ann’s Church and Shrine began with a conversation between a Mr. Stephen van Rensselaer Watson and Bishop John Timon as they rode together out Batavia Street (now Broadway) from Buffalo in 1. By 1. 85. 7, Timon had been Bishop of Buffalo for the ten years since Pope Pius IX had created the Diocese of Buffalo in 1. Despite the fact that the United States had already expanded as far as California, Buffalo, as far as East Coast interests were concerned, was still very much on the howling frontier. But the city was growing by leaps and bounds, thanks to the completion of the Erie Canal in 1. Buffalo a major Great Lakes port. Buffalo’s prosperity attracted people. From New England came Protestant settlers. From the German- speaking monarchies and duchies and principalities of central Europe came Catholic and Protestant immigrants. The 1. 84. 8 Irish potato famine brought a large influx of Irish Catholic immigrants to Buffalo. A small African- American community—some of Buffalo’s oldest families among their number—had also formed. By the 1. 85. 0s, a large German neighborhood had grown on the lands east of Buffalo into a whole new section of the city that would come to be known as the East Side. By this time, Buffalo’s first Roman Catholic parish, St. Louis, had become a solidly German parish, and numerous other German parishes had sprung up: the Redemptorists established St. Mary at Pine and Batavia Sts., in 1. Boniface was established on Mulberry St. In more distant places that had yet to become part of Buffalo, German Catholics established St. Francis Xavier in Black Rock and St. Joseph in Elysville (Main St. They established themselves in Williamsville at SS. Peter and Paul, which had been founded in 1. Fr. Johann Nepomuk Neumann, who later joined the Redemptorists and subsequently became the first bishop of Philadelphia. He was canonized a saint in 1. What brought the Jesuits into Buffalo proper was an ongoing struggle between the trustees of St. Louis Church and the diocese over who would own that church building. Timon insisted that he should. The trustees insisted that, since they had paid for it, they should own it. Such an arrangement was not unusual in Alsace, where many of St. Louis’ German- speaking parishioners had come from. But Timon would have none of it. Louis under interdict in 1. Jesuits to establish a rival parish nearby to “break” St. The result was the establishment of St. Louis passed, even if it did not get fully resolved until 1. St. Michael’s Church—and the Jesuits—were in Buffalo to stay. In 1. 87. 0, Canisius High School and College grew up in the shadow of St. Michael’s Church. By the late 1. 85. German Catholic community in Buffalo was continuing to grow unabated, and the German East Side had continued its expansion eastward. More churches—along with everything else—had become necessary, and the creation of St. Ann was a response to those needs. In 1. 85. 7, Timon asked the Jesuits to establish a second parish on the East Side. They had already eyed purchasing land there in the hopes of establishing a college. As things turned out, the college never materialized in that location. Ann’s Church did, as a second Jesuit mission in Buffalo. Work began in 1. 85. Emslie St., at about the location where the school stands today. At 5. 5 feet wide, 5. It cost the parish $7. The cornerstone laying ceremony of that modest church became a major celebration for all of Buffalo’s Catholics: all the rest of Buffalo’s Catholic parishes celebrated with St. The German parishes of St. Joseph in Elysville (now St. Joseph University Church) and St. Francis Xavier in Black Rock, all joined the celebration. The Irish parishes were also well- represented: St. Brigid sent a delegation, as did the cathedral, which Buffalo’s German Catholics generally also viewed as an Irish enterprise. Pierre Church—“exiles” from German St. Louis—also sent a delegation. St. Ann’s Church was a German parish from its very beginning. Its parishioners spoke German. The priests serving St. Ann’s Church spoke German and preached in German. Parish devotions and missions were conducted in German. Parishioners went to confession in German. The strange part about the arrangement was that the German speaking Jesuits who served both St. Ann were drawn from the New York- Canada Mission of the French Province of the Society of Jesus. In 1. 86. 9, Jesuit operations in Buffalo were separated from the New York- Canada Mission and attached to the German Province of Jesuits, under its own name, the Buffalo Mission of the Province of Germany. That new mission extended from Buffalo to South Dakota and Wyoming, and consequently, the Buffalo Jesuit influence, and with it that of St. Ann’s Church, extended across the country. That remained the administrative situation until the Maryland- New York Jesuit Province was established in 1. But not all Germans were the same. After Canisius High School opened at St. Michael’s Church (which was mainly Alsatian), fights were routine between St. Michael’s Alsatian students and St. Ann’s Bavarians and Austrians. Meanwhile the parish continued to grow. By the 1. 87. 0s, the existing church had become overcrowded, and the school arrangements were woefully inadequate. The parish considered building a bigger church. They began by buying up adjacent lots. Francis Himpler of New York developed designs for a massive neogothic stone church to replace the old brick church on Emslie St. The original design called for two identical steeples. The projected price was an astronomical $1. The pastor panicked, and the project was cancelled. Instead, new plans were developed for merely enlarging the existing church. Ann’s Church got a new pastor, Fr. He revived the plan for the new church, but accompanied his support for the new church with a stern admonition: “No money, no church.” He would support the new church project, but not if it meant putting the parish into debt. If the money ran out, the project would stop. The parish rose to the challenge. They started by finding ways to cut expenses. One way was to enlist the help of Br. Halfmann, a Jesuit Brother, as site engineer. Another way was to do much of the construction labor themselves. The parish then rented a stone quarry in Lockport for two years; the stone could be easily shipped by barge down the Erie Canal from Lockport to Buffalo. On August 2. 5, 1. After a splendid ceremony for the cornerstone- laying, hard reality followed as the parish struggled to keep the project advancing, and to keep the money for the project coming in. As the church arose, the west tower subsequently was redesigned, and ended up smaller than the massive east tower. Work proceeded slowly. The building was only completed 8 years later, in 1. But when its doors opened it was fully paid for. The new church was consecrated on May 1. The ornate altars and the massive Johnson and Son organ were installed during Roether’s tenure as pastor. Before Roether was finished at St. Ann’s Church, he had also constructed the rectory and the convent. The old church was renovated into classroom space. Roether’s tenure as pastor ended in 1. William Kockerols succeeded him. He bought the Stations of the Cross and had bells installed in the east tower, six of them, ranging in weight from 5. The big bell, named Sancta Anna, is the largest swinging bell in the city of Buffalo. Kockerols also affiliated St. Ann’s Church with the Shrine of St. Anne- de- Beaupre in Quebec, which conveyed all the spiritual privileges to visitors to St. Ann’s Church had they made a pilgrimage to St. Roether returned for a second term as pastor of St. Ann; in 1. 89. 0 he purchased the stained glass windows for the church from the Royal Bavarian Art Works, F. X. Zettler, of Munich, Germany. The window sets were designed around three thematic cycles. In the nave, the windows depict the Apostles’ Creed. In the sanctuary and transepts, the upper row of windows depict scenes from the legend of St. Ann; the lower row depicts scenes from the life of Jesus and the Holy Family. The basic parish plant was completed during the pastorate of Fr. Joseph Kreusch, who served at St. He directed the installation of the windows and completed much of the ornate woodwork of the church; he had the large wooden statues mounted over the columns, the work of woodcarver Heinrich Schmitt, who had a long career in Buffalo. Mary of Sorrows on Genesee St. Kreusch installed a mechanical weight and pendulum- driven tower clock in 1. That clock continues to function to this day. Kreusch also tore down the old church building to make way for construction of the massive school. Evidently, some parishioners criticized the magnitude of the new school project, which cost $1. But the gamble paid off. Not long after its completion, St. Ann’s School housed the largest Catholic grammar school population in the city. From this time on, projects at the parish became more modest, and more of the parish’s energies shifted to repair and maintenance. The parish had a spectacular church: now it had to make sure it stayed that way. Electricity was installed in the church and school in 1. Modern toilet facilities were added to the school in the 1. Fire damaged parts of the church attic in the early 1. The church interior was regularly cleaned and painted. But the parish commitment to give their best to God by building a spectacular church is only part of the story. Ann’s parish quickly became a major neighborhood focal point that not only cared for the spiritual needs of its community, but also its social and economic needs. Parish clubs and societies proliferated. Among them in the early 2. St. Francis Xavier School Society. St. Ann’s Men’s Club. Youth Sodality. Young Ladies’ Sodality. Library. Catholic Workers’ Society. St. Vincent Orphan Society. St. Ann’s Dramatic Circle. Knights of St. John. Young Ladies’ Sodality. St. John Berchmans Alumni. Ladies Auxiliary. Cub Scouts. Boy Scouts.
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