Slavery and Civil Rights Unit Objectives

The student will be able to:

• empathize and better understand the plight of slaves

• better understand what freedom means

• become familiar with Jim Crow laws

• understand the term civil rights and learn about the Civil Rights Movement

• become familiar with the various struggles of civil rights—historically and at present

• read a historical fiction novel and biographies of historical African Americans

•  identify and summarize the setting, main characters, and the plot of a historical fiction novel using the historical fiction book report summary
  
  summarize reading using a story pyramid format

• summarize reading using a bio-poem format

• identify African American historical figures who have contributed to our history, such as:

            • James Milton Turner—credited with being the first civil rights leader in Missouri

• Lucille H. Bluford—credited  with being a leader in civil rights movement in Missouri

• John Berry Meachum—established first black church in Missouri and a school for black children to teach them how to read and write (taught them on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River.

• Dred and Harriet Scott and the Dred Scott case—slaves who became famous because they tried to win their freedom and lost—trial was held in St. Louis

• Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth—abolitionists

Harriet Tubman--Underground Railroad, personally helped over 300 slaves escape

• Salem Poor—Revolutionary War hero

• Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable—first permanent settler and founder of the city of Chicago • Benjamin Banneker—surveyor who helped lay out the streets of Washington, D.C.  Also made the first clock constructed in this country.

• Bill Pickett—cowboy who invented bulldogging—taking a steer by the neck and throwing him down.

• James P. Beckwourth—famous mountain man

• George Washington Carver—famous scientist/botanist

• Booker T. Washington—educator

• W.E.B. Dubois—founder of NAACP and editor of Crisis magazine

• Mary McLeod Bethune—educator

• Martin Luther King, Jr. –civil rights leader

• Ida B. Wells—writer and civil rights leader, including Women’s suffrage movement

• Scott Joplin—composer from Sedalia, “The Entertainer”, “Maple Leaf Rag”

• Eubie Blake—another famous ragtime musician, “Charleston Rag”

• W.C. Handy—“Father of the Blues”

• Duke Ellington and Count Basie—big band jazz orchestras

• Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday and Ma Rainey—blues singers.  Ma Rainey known as “Mother of the Blues”

• Dinah Washington—blues singer, earned the title, “Queen of the Blues”

• Madam C. J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove) invented many hair products for women of color and first women of any race to become a millionaire

• Jelly Roll Morton (piano)  Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Charlie Parker (sax), Nat King Cole (singer), John Coltrane (musician and composer)—jazz artists

• James Weldon Johnson—created the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, known as “the Negro National Anthem”—wrote for a presentation in celebration of Lincoln’s birthday in 1900

• Jesse Owens—1936Olympics in track; Joe Louis—1937 heavyweight boxing champion, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente—baseball

• Dr. Bernard Harris—first black astronaut to walk in space

• Isabel Wilkerson—Pulitzer Prize winner for news articles

• Michael Johnson—track Olympian

                            to name a few….

• know that the 13^th Amendment abolished slavery (1865)

• know that the 15^th Amendment gave voting rights to all citizens regardless of race, creed, or color (1870)

• know that the 19^th Amendment gave voting rights to women (1920)

• know that the 26^th Amendment gave citizens 18 years old the right to vote (1971)

-interpret primary source oral history documents

-summarize narratives of former slaves

-compare and contrast life during slavery with life afterward

-evaluate oral history sources—their strengths and limitations