“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:
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.
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