African American History Month, Black History Month, Martin Luther King, Carter G. Woodson, BHM, Africa, America

1. Quintessa Hathaway Hervey, Ed.S.
February 2015

13. The Haitian Revolution

54. Theme 1: Early African History
Theme 2: Slavery and Suffering
Theme 3: From Slavery to Freedom
Theme 4: Reconstruction and Segregation
Theme 5: Progress, Achievements. Leaders
Theme 6: The Civil Rights Movement
Theme 7: Modern Times
Grade/Course Standard 2-
2.1: Explain the links between early European exploration and the development of the slave trade.
2.2: Explores the development of the slave trade in Africa prior to European arrival.
Grade/Course Standard 3-
3.5: Discuss the significance and concepts behind the Dred Scott Decision by the Supreme Court and the John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry.
3.7: Researches the role blacks played in gaining freedom.
Grade/Course Standard 4-
4.5: Examines the development of the leadership of significant African Americans and their ideas for the improvement of blacks, as well as the
ideas of their critics.
4.6: Describe the importance of cultural developments, including music and sports, in African Americans’ fight against segregation and for a
place in American society.
Grade/Course Standard 5-
5.1: Understands the background and intellectual content of racism during the late 19th century.
Grade/Course Standard 6-
6.2: Examine the facts, leadership, tactics, and the effects of various Civil Rights activities. (i.e.-Little Rock Crisis, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the
Albany Movement, March on Washington, Freedom Summer, and Bloody Sunday)
6.3: Analyze the changing nature of the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s.
Grade/Course Standard 7-
7.2: Examine the basic political, development among African Americans from the 1980s to present.
7.3: Examine the basic social development among African Americans from the 1980s to present.
7.4: Examine the basic cultural development among African Americans from the 1980s to present. (i.e.-Black art and literature, Black Feminism,
relationships with police, The Nation of Islam, movement and controversy over reparations)