Homeschool African American History Part I

Slavery: The Beginning

Movie: ROOTS 
Anatomy of a Slaveship
Transatlantic Slave Trade
African Resistance

How Slavery Started (1619)
From 20 to millions

Slavery in America, epitome of the system’s dehumanization

Slavery: Living in Enslavement

• Movie: 12 years A Slave 
• The Stono Rebellion (1739)
• Act of 1807 (Congress bans further importation of enslaved people)
• Act of 1818, Act of 1819, Act of 1820 (Acts enforcing Act of 1807)
• Forms of Rebellion
• NatTurner (1831)
• The Birth of a Nation (movie)
• The Abolitionists Part I (1820-1838)
• The Abolitionists Part II (1838-1854)
• The Abolitionists Part III (1854-)
• Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist (1846)
• Frederick Douglass: The meaning of July 4th for the Negro
• Dred Scott Case (1857) 
• Missouri Compromise (1891)
• Follow Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad
• Underground Railroad 
• Myths about the Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
• Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
• Booker T Washington  (1856-1915)

Slavery: Ending

• Movie: Glory (Massachusetts 54th Regimen) 1837-1863
• Lincoln/Douglass Debates re: the fate of slavery in the US
• Frederick Douglass and Abe Lincoln (DH)
• Harriet Tubman helps Civil War (DH)
• The Civil War (1861-1865)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• The 13th amendment (1865) Civil War Ends, Lincoln Assassinated. 13th Amendment ratified.

The Reconstruction Era (1865-1877):

• The Reconstruction Era (Khan Academy curriculum)
• Part I Jim Crow
• Part II & Part III Jim Crow & Black Codes
• Part IV & V Compromise of 1877
• The Reconstruction Era (Facing History curriculum - 7 lessons)
• Reconstruction overview (13 min)
• President Andrew Johnson 
• Slavery by Another Name: Sharecropping (90 min) 
• The African American Worker (1865-1900) (7 min)
• Black codes (1866) are passed by all white legislators of the former confederate states. 
• Freedman's Bureau 1866
• Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1866 
• The Ku Klux Klan is formed in TN (1866)
• The 14th amendment (1868) Defines citizenship, overturns Dred Scot decision
• The 15th Amendment (1870) African Americans right to vote
• The Compromise of 1877
• Black founding fathers (7 min)
• The Failure of Resconstruction (3 min)

End of Unit Assignments:

Research & Write: 

• Research and write a 1-2 page biographical essay on someone you've learned about during these lessons. Describe their life and legacy. How did their life impact others? Describe why you chose to write about them. What do you admire about them. What if anything was surprising about them as you dug deeper into their story?

Think & Answer:

• Why do you think it's important for us to change our vernacular from "slaves" to "enslaved people"?
• If African American History was important to mainstream America, name 3 additional holidays we would celebrate. Explain why these days would be important days of recognition and remembrance.
• Why is the N word so offensive? How would you handle a situation where it was used in your presence? How would you feel and what would you do if you were called the N word?
• Why do you think there is still such loyalty to statues of the losing army general and the confederate flag?

Know: 

• When did slavery begin? When did it officially end? How many years was slavery? How many generations of a family would likely never know freedom?
• What was Abraham Lincoln's interest in fighting to end slavery?
• What year did the Civil War begin? End? Who was the winning army general? Who was the losing army general? 
• What are the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments to the US Constitution? Why are they significant?
• What was life like for African Americans after the Civil war?
• Name 3 African American heroes and what made them awesome.

US History: Our Timeline Built Curriculum

“Compressing all of black history into a single month seems the ultimate segregation.” - Alice Walker

Welcome to Moore Academy's Online Homeschool American History Curriculum. In searching through my daughter's 11th grade US History text book, I was disappointed to find only a few pages referencing African American History. Most of her US History text is based on re-learning the same historical events that she's learned from the time she was in preschool. So we're flipping the script to give her a more rounded understanding of US History, particularly through the eyes of people with her skin tone. Our primary focus will be on African American History. 

Our curriculum will roughly follow this African American Timeline

Here are two more timelines for reference:

• Timeline 2
• Timeline 3 

In February we will pause the above US History curriculum to cover this US History for the month. During that month we'll cover the items in this timeline that my daughter has not already learned about in her K-10th grade public school education.

• Heart of Wisdom American History Timeline

Worthwhile read:

Black History for White People