Notes
1 “School Details” Chicago Public Schools website.
2 Ibid.
3 Hendricks, Karin S. 2018. Compassionate Music Teaching: A Framework for Motivation and Engagement in the 21st Century. Rowman & Littlefield.
4Rawls, Jason, Robinson, John. 2019Youth Culture Power, A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Teacher-Student Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement. Lang.
5 National Geographic Map. 2025. “Map.” Resource. Updated March 2025. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/map/
6 Ibid.
7 Berry & McNeilly. 2014. Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel
8 Axis Maps. 2020. “What Is a Map?” Guide.
9 Monmonier, Mark. 2018. How to Lie With Maps. University of Chicago Press.
10 ibid
11 Akerman, James R. 2009. The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire. University of Chicago Press.
12 Ibid.
13 The Armada Portrait 1858
14 Bartholomew, John, and A. Fullarton & Co. British Empire throughout the world exhibited in one view. [S.l., 185, 1850] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/98687124/.
15 Arrowsmith, Aaron, and J Puke. A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America. [London: A. Arrowsmith, 1802] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001620920/.
16 Ibid.
17 Vance & Finley, “Map of North America including all the recent georgraphical discoveries”
18 Smith, Charles, Active Approximately. Map of North America. [S.l, 1849] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002628196/.
19 US Office of the Historian
20 The British Museum
21 www.triibe.com
22 Isaac Newton, 1846
23 An atlas of Radical Cartography
24 Ibid.
25 WTTW Chicago
26 “The Big Dipper.” Adler Planeterium.
27 "Underground Railroad." In Encyclopedia of African American Society, edited by Jaynes, Gerald D., 837-38. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2005. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952507.n649.
28 Ekeogu, Onyekachi Joi. 2024. Weavings of Black Radicalism: Mapping Communication Geographies of the Underground Railroad and the Movement for Black Lives. Arizona State University.
29 Croghan, Laura, and Duncan Jamieson. 2023. “Slave Codes.” EBSCO. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/slave-codes.
30 “Underground Railroad.” History.com. Updated May 2025
31 Ibid.
32 “Follow the Drinking Gourd.” 1928. Texas Folklore Society
33 Silber, Irwin, and Jerry Silverman. 1960. Songs of the Civil War. New York: Columbia University Press.
34 “Follow the Drinking Gourd.”
35 Ibid.
36 Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1849. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/82225385/.
37 Ibid.
38 Kistler, Montenegro, Smith, et al. 2014. “Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas. Proc Natl Acad Sci. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1318678111
39 “Water Vessel.” Smithsonian Museum
40 Kelley James. 2008. Song, story, or history: Resisting claims of a coded message in the African American Spiritual “Follow the drinking gourd.”
41 Russell, Heather. 2009. Legba’s crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic. University of Georgia Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40071.0001.001. EPUB.
42 Arturo, Lindsay. 2020. Toward an understanding of Ashe as an aesthetic criterion. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, (8)1 pp 52-67.
43 “Chitlin Circuit.” Martin, Roland and Ostber, René. Britannica, last modified June 10, 2025. www.britannica.com (accessed July 14, 2025).
44 “Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit.’ A Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers. www.Atlasobscura.com
45 Hunter, Marcus & Robinson, Zandria. 2018. Chocolate cities: The black map of American life. University of California Press.
46 “Ferguson, Denver and Sea (brothers),” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed July 16, 2025, https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2292.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 Jeffries, Fran. “Chitlin’ Circuit: Black performers’ soulful showcase during segregation.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, last modified February 3, 2024. Ajc.com (accessed July 16, 2025).
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid.
53 “The Blues Algorithm Revisited: From Reincarnated to Sinners.” Gaskins, Nettrice. Medium, last modified April 21, 2025. https://nettricegaskins.medium.com/the-blues-algorithm-revisited-from-reincarnated-to-sinners-4345b9890bac (accessed July 14, 2025).
54 Ibid.
55 Ibid.
56 Ibid.
57 REBECCA, S. T. (1938, Jan 08). 'The first white settler in chicago was A negro': PERPETUATING THE MEMORY OF DU SABLE, NEGRO PIONEER AN EDITORIAL CHICAGO'S FIRST SETTLER. The Chicago Defender (National Edition) (1921-1967) Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/first-white-settler-chicago-was-negro/docview/492580562/se-2
58 This was the spelling of the name at the time.
59 “The settlement that DuSable built” Harvey, Matt and Walden, Tiffany. The Tribe, last updated February 1, 2025. https://thetriibe.com/2022/02/the-settlement-that-dusable-built-chicago/ (accessed July 29, 2025).
60 “DuSable to Obama 1993 Worlds Fair.” WTTW. https://www.wttw.com/dusable-to-obama/1933-worlds-fair
61 "Chicago's Progress shown at Fair." 1933., Jun 17The Chicago Defender (National Edition) (1921-1967), 12. https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/chicagos-progress-shown-at-fair/docview/492387902/se-2.
62 “Lifting as We Climb: African American Women’s Clubs in Progressive Chicago.” Linda Becker, last modified May 19, 2020. https://brewminate.com/lifting-as-we-climb-african-american-womens-clubs-in-progressive-era-chicago/#google_vignette (accessed July 28, 2025).
63 Reed, Christopher R. “‘In the Shadow of Fort Dearborn’: Honoring De Saible at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933-1934.” Journal of Black Studies 21, no. 4 (1991): 398–413. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2784685.
64 ibid
65 Block Club Chicago, Tiktoks dilla the urban historian is educating followers and challenging Chicago stereotypes 60 seconds at a time.
66 ibid
67 “Chicago Mahogany.” Sherman Thomas. www.Chicagomahogany.com (accessed June 2025).
68 ibid
69 O-Block is a housing complex off 63rd street in Chicago
70 “Folded Map™.” Tonika Lewis Johnson. www.foldedmapproject.com (accessed June 2025).
71 Borderless Studio
72 Yes, it is a word.
73 This is a playful reference to the T.I. song, “What You Know About That”
74 The title of this activity draws from a viral GIF of Chicago rap artist, Chief Keef and the song “Or Nah” by the musician Ty Dolla $ign, integrating Chicago youth culture.
75 Kelley, Robin D. G. 2002. Freedom dreams: the Black radical imagination. Beacon Press.
76 Woodward, David, and G. Malcolm Lewis, eds. Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies. Vol. 2.3 of The History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
77 Arrowsmith, Aaron, and J Puke. A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America. [London: A. Arrowsmith, 1802] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001620920/.
78 The Constitutional Publishing Co. The British Empire Spans the World. 1929. Map. https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343620
79 ibid
80 Smith, Charles, Active Approximately. Map of North America. [S.l, 1849] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002628196/.
81 Marshall Islands stick chart, Rebbelib type. [Majuro, Marshall Islands: s.n., 192-?, 1920] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010586182/.
82 Gross, Alexander, and Geographia Ltd. The Daily Telegraph map of the world on Mercator's projection. [London: "Geographia" Ltd., ?, 1918] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593058/.
83 "Overseas Empires of European Powers" 1921. Wells, H.G. The Outline of Histor . The MacMillan Company.
84 “Native Land.” https://www.native-land.ca (accessed June 2025).
85 ibid
86 ibid
87 “Big Mama Thorton.” https://www.blackmusicproject.com/exhibit/big-mama-thornton.
88 Andreas, A.T. 1884. History of Chicago. From the earliest period to the present time. A.T. Andreas. kankakeecommunitycollege; carli_lib; americana.
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