Black History Month Documentaries: Amend, Black Church, More. Black History & Culture activities for Grades 6-8. Black History Month Resource Guide for Educators and Families – Center for Racial Justice in Education. At Center for Racial Justice in Education, we believe that the histories, stories, and voices of Black people should be centered, honored, and uplifted in school curricula every day.
We also acknowledge the importance, relevance and origins of Black History Month. In 1926, Carter D. Woodson and the ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History) launched “Negro History Week” to promote the studying of African American history as a discipline and to celebrate the accomplishments of African Americans. Today, we still see the absence of Black history and experience in our textbooks, required readings, STEM, and overall curriculum of our educational system. Black History Month. Black History Month. Celebrate the Black leaders who helped build and shape America. Use the #TakeAKnee Protests to Explore the Legacy of Black Athletes and Activism. Get students to connect Colin Kaepernick to Jesse Owens and consider the political history of sports.
During the 2016 National Football League (NFL) season, Colin Kaepernick -- who at the time was a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers -- kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality and the systemic oppression of people of color. Kaepernick's protest -- also known as the #TakeAKnee or national anthem protests -- sparked a national debate on the relationship between sports and politics and the appropriateness of protest within sporting events. The following video and discussion activities will help students think critically about this debate, drawing on the long history of Black athletes as activists for context. The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Fairy Tale. Dispirited by the lack of change and what she called the “complacency” of many peers, she reformed the NAACP Youth Council in 1954 and urged her young charges to take greater stands against segregation.
When 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in March 1955, many Black Montgomerians were outraged by Ms. Colvin’s arrest, but some came to decide that the teenager was too feisty and emotional, and not the right test case. How Tuskegee Airmen Fought Military Segregation With Nonviolent Action - HISTORY. The Tuskegee Airmen are best known for proving during World War II that Black men could be elite fighter pilots.
Less widely known is the instrumental role these pilots, navigators and bombardiers played during the war in fighting segregation through nonviolent direct action. Their tactics would become a cornerstone of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. The Tuskegee Airmen’s most influential moment of collective civil disobedience came in the spring of 1945, in what became known as the Freeman Field Mutiny. (14) Watch. Shirley Chisholm: Facts About Her Trailblazing Career - HISTORY. Shirley Chisholm is widely known for her history-making turn in 1972 when she became the first African American from a major political party to run for president and the first Democratic woman of any race to do so.
But Chisholm’s presidential bid was far from Chisholm's only accomplishment throughout her 80-year life. Born Shirley Anita St. Hill to a Guyanese American father and a Barbadian American mother in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924, Chisholm excelled first in school and then in her political career. Chisholm Came From a Low-Income NYC Neighborhood. Shirley Chisholm, the First Black Congresswoman. Shirley Chisholm: Unbought, Unbossed and Unforgotten. Curriculum connections winter 2005 chisholm. Librarians Help Students Understand Biased Science.
Anonymous: My Lord, what a morning. Phillis Wheatley. Although she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America. Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionized in New England and England, with presses in both places publishing her poems, and paraded before the new republic’s political leadership and the old empire’s aristocracy, Wheatley was the abolitionists’ illustrative testimony that blacks could be both artistic and intellectual.
Her name was a household word among literate colonists and her achievements a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement. Maya Angelou: 20th Century Renaissance Woman. Ida B. Wells: Fearless Investigative Reporter of Southern Horrors. Black History Month: Charlotte E. Ray: The First Black Woman Lawyer In The United States. Stacey Abrams: Flipping Georgia Blue & The “Magic” of Black Women. Stacey Abrams On How She Built An Infrastructure That Helped Flip Georgia Blue. Meet Stacey Abrams, the architect of Georgia's political sea change. Stacey Abrams, Georgia's 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, has long pushed the national party to invest political resources in the fast-growing Southern state.Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump both seriously competed in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election, reflecting its shift from a reliably conservative state to an emerging swing state.In November, Biden won Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes, and Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff both won their respective Senate runoff elections in January 2021, heralding achievements that once seemed nearly impossible to many in the party.Abrams, who helped register hundreds of thousands of new voters in the state over the past decade, has relentlessly focused on uprooting various forms of voter suppression in the state that go back generations.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
Republicans have long controlled the levers of power in the Peach State. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images. The Color of Medicine - Hey Black Child: The Podcast. Bonus Track feat. President Obama. Barack Obama - "A Promised Land" - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Video Clip) Eight Podcasts About Black Changemakers. Ask Henrietta Lacks Whose body is it, anyway. Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection: Crash Course Statistics #12. Henrietta Lacks: Preserving Her Legacy. Immortal Cells Turn 96. Henrietta Lacks' 'Immortal' Impact on Medical Research. Henrietta Lacks: Her DNA fueled medical breakthroughs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Purpose To explore the issue of ethics in medical research and, in particular, the issue of informed consent, in the context of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells.
Context. Nichelle Nichols, Actress and NASA Recruiter. Skip to Main Content Use one of the services below to sign in to PBS: You've just tried to add this video to My List.
Mae Jemison, First African-American Woman in Space. Skip to Main Content Use one of the services below to sign in to PBS: You've just tried to add this video to My List.
Hidden Figures Movie vs the True Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA. For better or for worse, there is history, there is the book and then there's the movie.
Timelines had to be conflated and [there were] composite characters. -Author Margot Lee Shetterly, December 2016, Space.com Questioning the Story:Is Kevin Costner's character based on a real person? WATCH: NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, celebrated in ‘Hidden Figures,’ dead at 101. Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. She was 101. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on Twitter that she died Monday morning. No cause was given. Bridenstine tweeted that the NASA family “will never forget Katherine Johnson’s courage and the milestones we could not have reached without her.
Katherine Johnson, who helped send Apollo to the moon, wins Hubbard Medal. Long before today’s technology was invented, Katherine Johnson was known as a computer. She calculated flight trajectories, by hand, for the United States space program. Without the brilliance of a mind like Johnson’s, it’s uncertain whether John Glenn would have pioneered space missions and doubtful Neil Armstrong would have been the first human to step onto the surface of the moon. Her precise calculations ensured the astronauts made it to space safely and back. For her contributions to space exploration, Katherine Johnson, who died in February 2020 at the age of 101, was selected as the 2020 recipient of the National Geographic Society Hubbard Medal, awarded for achievement in research, discovery, and exploration.
Though she herself wasn’t physically exploring space, without her there might not have been any exploration at all. Trailblazing Women: reading informational text; Katherine Johnson 7 (practice) Learn about Black history, politics, and culture with Khan Academy. We believe it is important to educate ourselves and our community about the Black experience in the United States and African history. Our content team helped pull together a list of Khan Academy’s resources on Black history, politics, and culture. Here are a few hand-picked videos and articles if you want to learn more about these important topics. Black history in the United States Before the Civil War: Watch a video about the role of slavery in early America and read about the lives of African Americans in the early republic.
Teenage activist Marley Dias on the trailblazer who inspired her - Marley Dias. Identity: reading informational text; Marley Dias 6 (practice) Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Civil Rights: Then and Now. February 2021: Honoring Black Agency & Black Joy. This February, schools across the country recognize “Black History Month” with lessons, activities, and events meant to spotlight important figures in Black history and milestone events in the trajectory of Black life in America. Here at Facing History, we know that Black history is central to all of American history, and should be part of a robust teaching curriculum year-round. Alongside the lessons of Black history, it’s also critical to honor the resilience, creativity, and vitality of Black people in the face of inequity and violence, past and present.
That’s why, this year, we’re celebrating Black History Month by honoring the themes of Black Agency & Black Joy. Freedom’s Ring: King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech. Pauli Murray's Proud Shoes. America's Cultural Roots Traced to Enslaved African Ancestors. Bringing Black Lives Matter Into the Classroom. Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters. Black History Month Teaching: Miseducation or Empowerment?
Black LGBTQ History: Teachers Must Do a Better Job. The Bridge to the Ballot. Learning for Justice. Four Black History Month Must-Haves. Why We Need Black History Month. Teaching Hard History: American Slavery. Resistance Means More Than Rebellion. Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History. The Harlem Hellfighters. We Return Fighting.