Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, With Documents, Updated for the AP® Course

NEW! Unit openers aligned to the AP® course highlight and contextualize important content.

• Illustrated unit introductions offer an overview of each unit's content. These brief sections highlight key developments and processes covered in the chapters. You'll also find extra material from the AP® course and Exam Description that isn't included in other textbooks for this course.
• Thematic Unit Timelines tie history to the AP® course Themes. A thematic unit timeline follows unit introductions contextualizing the chronology of key concepts, developments, and processes from the AP® African American Studies CED in relation to the four AP® course themes: Migration and the African Diaspora; Intersections of Identity; Creativity, Expression, and the Arts; and Resistance and Resilience.
• Unit Warmups offer fun, engaging source analysis practice. Unit Warmups provide visual analysis practice. These images can be found throughout the chapters and are accompanied with helpful Key Context notes to help students tackle Prediction Questions, which tie directly to AP® Skills.

REVISED FOR AP®! Chapter-opening features contextualize important AP® course content.

• Chapter Timelines give students a sense of chronology, reinforcing and expanding on the AP® Unit Thematic Timelines.
• Contextualizing African American Stories vignettes share a real-life example of how the chapter’s content affected someone—or vice versa.

NEW! AP® skills support and content in the margins of the student edition.

• Chapter headings include questions aligned to the AP® course Learning Objectives, helping students actively read and engage with AP® course objectives.
• AP® Exam Tips in the margins highlight important concepts to focus on for the AP® Exam. These offer a boost where it matters most, providing memorable and active on-the-spot advice for making connections between ideas and the AP® sources.
• AP® Skills: Applying Disciplinary Knowledge notes help students apply the skills to content. These questions identify places to apply key disciplinary practices, reasoning processes, and skills students will need to perform well on the AP® Exam.
• A running glossary keeps track of important concepts and events. Even more terms are defined in a full Glossary/Glosario at the back of the book.

REVISED FOR AP®! The art program is designed to develop AP® skills and support work with AP® course sources.

• Critical thinking questions promote visual source analysis. From stimulus-based multiple-choice questions to Short-Answer and Document-Based Questions, visual sources are an important and challenging part of the AP® Exam. That’s why the AP® edition of Freedom on My Mind provides a robust caption and critical analysis question for every image in the book, asking students to analyze multiple perspectives and develop well-supported responses.
• AP® course sources are visible at a glance. Throughout the book, you’ll see where the art program aligns to the AP® course framework thanks to a helpful AP® Source icon. These reference points also emphasize that some visual sources are especially important to know.
• Revisit Your Prediction Activities help students connect ideas and practice source analysis. These activities are paired with the images in the Unit Warmups and are designed to support the Making Connections AP® Skill. Students use evidence from the chapter to back their arguments as they revisit and revise their predictions.

REVISED FOR AP®! End-of-chapter features make reviewing course content and applying new skills a breeze.

• Key terms and AP® course sources are gathered in a list of AP® Essential Vocabulary and Sources that serves as an easy-to-find reference point.
• Applying Disciplinary Knowledge: Essential Questions serve as checkpoints that allow students to demonstrate their understanding of key concepts, developments, and processes.
• Suggested References lists arranged by topic are designed to support students’ own research as they embark on their Individual Student Projects.

REVISED FOR AP®! AP® Working with Sources collections hone source analysis and argumentation skills.

Every chapter in Freedom on My Mind includes an AP® Working with Sources collection — a rich, themed set of textual and visual primary sources. Each collection focuses on a particular chapter topic, from first-hand accounts of the slave trade to perspectives on the Black Lives Matter movement. With built-in supports to build and practice AP® source analysis and argumentation skills, these document collections feature primary textual and visual sources, including personal letters, memoirs, poetry, public petitions, newspaper accounts, photographs, visual arts, cartoons, propaganda, and more. By placing the texts of these historical actors in conversation with one another, we enable students to witness the myriad variations of and nuances within Black experiences.

• Each collection begins with an introduction to the theme that presents and analyzes the context of the documents in conversation with one another, facilitating students’ comprehension of the textured, complicated stories of African Americans.
• AP® Argumentation: DBQ Practice prompts offer practice for the AP® Exam, but they also make great discussion prompts.
• Key Point notes in the margin of the introductions help students digest the most important contextual information and provide a foundation for actively reading the sources that follow.
• As with the art program, several documents overlap with the required and optional AP® course sources.
• Headnotes for each document offer students key context for the author, subject, audience, and purpose of the source.
• Breaking It Down notes follow the headnotes, providing students with a specific task or key questions to focus their reading of the source.
• Finally, a set of five Practicing AP® Skills questions invites students to apply course skills and reasoning. A Connecting to AP® Themes question allows students to link the documents to one of the four AP® course themes, and a DBQ completes the set—ideal practice for the skills needed to ace the presentation and oral defense of the Individual Student Projects that cap the AP® African American Studies course.

NEW! AP® Skills Workshops at the end of every chapter build essential skills in context.

From sourcing a primary document to developing a continuity and change argument to putting the Individual Student Project together, these workshops introduce, and help develop, essential AP® skills in context.

• Recap boxes throughout the workshops serve as comprehension checks and reference points for student review.
• Each workshop culminates in an activity that allows students to practice the skills they have just learned.

NEW! Integrated AP® Exam practice gets every student AP® ready.

• At the end of every chapter, there is a set of Multiple-Choice Questions and a Short-Answer Question.
• At the end of every unit, there is a set of Multiple-Choice Questions, three Short Answer Questions, and one Document Based Question.
• A full practice AP® Exam is available at the back of the book.