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Student Projects

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TURN THE HISTORY INTO PLAYS, DIARIES, FICTION AND PRESENTATIONS.

Social studies teacher Pearl Jonas was moved by the history she learned on one of our walking tours and developed a new unit on abolition for her students at Science Leadership Academy.

Her class visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and walked the Black Metropolis with us. Their assignment: make something from what they learned. Below is a sampling of those projects, each placed beside the history that inspired it.

Melvin Garrison leads a walking tour for Pearl Jonas' class

The projects

Left: the student’s work · Right: the history it drew from

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1838 Black Metropolis, Inc. (2026). Student Projects. https://www.1838blackmetropolis.com/student-projects

Student work shared with permission · Last updated September 11, 2026 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0