In pairs or groups of three choose a topic from below and prepare a short powerpoint detailing the following:
- definitions or short synopsis of your area
- dates (if talking about a person, birth date and date of death if deceased)
- 5 facts
The aim is to build a timeline of African American history as a class. Email powerpoints to me and I'll put them on the blog.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF SLAVES: (Field and house slaves. Were they treated differently? How were they chosen?)
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, THE CIVIL WAR AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
SEGREGATION
THE KU KLUX CLAN
LYNCHING, Emmett Till
(find his story and see if you can link it to the start of the civil rights movement) and Strange Fruit (poem, sung by Billie Holliday)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (what were the aims? Find video footage of civil rights marches and anti civil rights marches)
MALCOLM X AND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: differences
BLACK PANTHER MOVEMENT AND THEIR AIMS
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