Heart and Soul (Kadir Nelson) Topic List

Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soul is not only a beautifully written book but an excellent resource for teaching and extension ideas.  I have included a list in this separate post of the people and major events for easy reference.  There are many African-American people listed for students to research for projects and essays or for educators to bring in additional book about. 

Chapter 1:  Declaration of Independence

George Washington

Boston Tea Party

Thomas Jefferson

American Revolution

Constitution

Chapter 2: Slavery

Slave Ships

Negro Spirituals

Plantations

Chapter 3:  Abolition

Fredrick Douglass

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Tubman

Chapter 4:  Lincoln’s War

Abraham Lincoln

Nat Love

Slaves fighting in the Civil War

Robert E. Lee

Andrew Johnson

Emancipation Proclamation

Chapter 5: Reconstruction

Charles Sumner

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Sharecropping

Ku Klux Klan

Jim Crow Laws

Chapter 6:  Cowboys and Indians, Native Americans and Westward Negros

Buffalo Soldiers

Homestead Act

Bill Pickett (rodeo performer)

Nat Love (cowboy)

Chapter 7:  Turn of the Century and the Great Migration

Felix Haywood

Archduke Ferdinand

World War I

Chicago Defender (Newspaper)

Jazz and Blues music

Booker T. Washington

Chapter 8:  Harlem & the Vote for Women

W.E.B DuBois

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Howard University

Tuskegee University

Negro League baseball (Chicago American Giants)

Jelly Roll Morton

Ella Fitzgerald

Duke Ellington

Josephine Baker & Cotton Club

Aaron Douglas (artist)

Archibald Motley (artist)

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

James Weldon Johnson (author)

Alain Locke (writer)

Women’s Suffrage

Ida B. Wells

Chapter 9:  Hard Times and World War II

Jackie Robinson (Negro league)

E.G. McConnell (761^th Tank Battalion)

Stock Market Crash

Great Depression

Adolf Hitler

Joe Louis

Max Schmeling (boxer)

Holocaust

Pearl Harbor

Franklin Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuskegee Airmen

761^th Tank Battalion

Battle of the Bulge

Chapter 10:  Black Innovation

Ernst Matzeliger (shoes)

Elijah McCoy (ironing board and lawn sprinkle)

Lewis Latimer (improved electric lamp)

George Washington Carver

Fredrick M. Jones (x-ray machine and refrigeration)

Dr. Charles Drew (blood preservation)

Annie Malone & Madame C.J. Walker (hair growing lotions)

Garrett Mogan (traffic signal)

Grantville Woods (train communication)

Otis Boykin (control devices)

Mahatma Gandhi

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chapter 11:  Jim Crow’s A-Dying

Branch Rickey & Jackie Robinson (Major League)

Thurgood Marshall

School Integration

President Eisenhower

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Chapter 12:  Revolutions

Civil Rights Leaders

Angela Davis (revolutionary)

James Brown (singer)

Sam Cooke (singer)

Freedom Riders

A. Philip Randolph

Malcolm X

Adam Powell

Fannie Lou Hamer

Medgar Evers

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act