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*Understand why there is Black History and know major accomplishments and tragedies that created Black History. *Be able to show your understanding of a historic event or gure in Black History and describe other historic facts that happened during that same time period.

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Black History in America Grade 6 Syllabus

Teacher Name: Shawn Starling Grade: 6th
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*Developing an understanding of Black History by learning facts and utilizing the facts to show understanding through different types of assessment *Construct an eight page report on a chosen Black History topic and develop a four page timeline that revolves around the topics time period Materials- Home computer, Stars Tutorial, ash drive, ash cards, 4 scantron pages, No #2 pencils Grade Scale 100-90
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Black History in America Grade 6 Syllabus

Assignments Black History Facts are original facts that made Black History in America. The purpose of me providing you with these facts is so that you can study them and start your journey of being more knowledgeable of Black History. You will use studied information to take a test given at the end of week two, so please study your history facts and be prepared. (Flash cards are part of material, because I suggest that you put facts on cards and study) Black History Test will be administered by computer, but recorded on Scantron forms during testing. The purpose of me providing you with this test is to determine your knowledge and understanding of Black History in America. This test will be 25 percent of your nal grade. Remember to study! Black History Report will determine your ability to research a historic topic or gure and complete a report that will be a minimum of eight pages long. This reports eight pages will include: -Cover page -Report body that must tell who, what, when, where, and how about topic or person really explaining why this topic or person should be in black history. I would like an overview of how the contributions helped or deterred the history. -Reference Page (I am allowing a great range of freedom, so that I will not limit your creativity) Black History Timeline will be the second half of the report is to create a timeline with a minuium of four integrated Black history facts, showing where your chosen report falls within the timeline. Each integrated fact should be at least a page long. ( your nal timeline should be ve pages long) The timeline we studied at the beginning of class is how your project should look, but one page per topic. (Black History Report and Timeline are combined and will be graded as one big project) Black History Essay will be the nal assessment of the class that come from information provided on report and Black History facts. This will be administered the last day before the course ends, so be prepared.

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Deadlines- You will have an one day grace period for late assignments that have to be approved by me. For any late assignments without approval, there will be a ve point penalty per three days, that will be deducted from the reports nal grade. If there are any problems with the tutorial functions, please contact the institution for further assistance at starsareshining@mac.com or call (772)559-5188. Please notify me as well, so I will know when or before grading. Email- I will send updates once a week to notify you of your grade progress so far in the class. There is a small chance that I will make revisions or give updates to the program, but still be on the lookout just in case. Please obtain a basic email setup at home or nearest library, so you can check for new emails. Reports- Please provide a reference page with your report for any work that you borrow. If there is no reference page, you will lose 10 points from the reports nal grade.

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WEEK Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Assignment
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*Report due Wednesday of week 5

Black History Essay

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*10% of grade depends on assignments being turned in on time and tests being taken on time.

Assessment Rubrics
Black History in America Test

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Study habits Level of learning displayed superb test score score of 90 or higher

Better
good effort score of 80 or higher

Good
needs improvement score of 70 or higher

Fail
lack of effort score below 69

Black History in America Report

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Ability to construction report with all requirements Creativity all requirements complete uses pictures, music, movies to describe

Better
all requirements complete

Good
missing one section

Fail
missing more than one section students shows no creativity
display needs improvement in all areas

uses very little pictures, uses very little pictures music, movies to to describe describe
displays any two of three parts of best displays any one of three in best or better

Punctation, Flow of displays perfect punctation, paragraphs, accuracy of accurate information, and paragraphs ow information

Black History Month in America

Black History Month in America

History Facts that occurred in February:
February 23, 1868: W.E.B DuBois, important civil rights leader and co-founder of the NAACP, was born. -February 3, 1870: The 1st Amendment was passed, granting blacks the right to vote. -February 25, 1870- The first black U.S. senator, Hiram R. Revels (1822-1901), took oath of office. -February 12,1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a group of concerned black and white citizens in New York City. -February 1, 1960: In what would become a civil rights movement milestone, a group of black Greensboro, N.C., college students began a sit in at a segregated Woolworths lunch counter. -February 21, 1965: Malcolm X, the militant leader who promoted Black Nationalism, was shot to death by three Black Muslims. (Haney, 2007)

The Start of Black History

1619- The first African Slaves arrive in Virginia.

1787 - Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory. The U.S. Constitution states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808. 1793- Eli Whitneys invention of the cotton gin greatly increases the demand for slave labor. 1793- A federal fugitive slave law is enacted, providing for the return slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines. 1808 - Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.

1831- William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing the Liberator, a weekly paper that advocates the complete abolition of slavery. He becomes one of the most famous figures in the abolitionist movement. 1846- Fredrick Douglass- launches his abolitionist newspaper, which covered topics that were solely about slavery ending . 1849- Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad. She is said to have gone south nineteen times and to have emancipated more than 300 slaves. (Franklin& Moss, 1994) The continuing debate whether territory gained in the Mexican War should be open to slavery is decided in the Compromise of 1850. California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories are left to be stricter fugitive state law than the original passed in 1793.(Franklin& Moss, 1994)1854- Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The legislation repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions. (Haney, 2007)

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1857- The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens. 1863- President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all persons held as slaves within the Confederate state are, and henceforward shall be free.

1865- Civil War ends. Lincoln is assassinated. . On June 19 slavery in the United States effectively ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally received the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier. 1865- (March)Congress establishes the Freedmans Bureau to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks. 1865- (Dec. 6)Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery. 1865- outraged whites form the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee consisting of ex-Confederates out to harm or kill blacks.
(Franklin& Moss, 1994)

1865- (June 19)Slavery in the United States is effectively ended when the Civil War ended two months earlier. 1865-1866- Black codes are passed by Southern states, drastically restricting the rights of newly freed slaves. 1867- A series of Reconstruction acts are passed, carving the former Confederacy into five military districts and guaranteeing the civil rights of freed slaves. 1868- Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, defining citizenship. Individuals born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens, including those born as slaves. This nullifies the Dred Scott Case (1857), which had ruled that blacks were not citizens.
(Haney, 2007)

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1877- Reconstruction ends in the South. Federal attempts to provide some basic civil rights for African Americans quickly erode. 1879- The Black Exodus takes place, in which tens of thousands of African Americans migrated from southern states to Kansas. 1881-Booker T. Washington founds the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. The school becomes one of the leading schools of higher learning for African Americans, and stresses the practical application of knowledge. 1882- The American Colonization Society, founded by Presbyterian minister Robert Finley, establishes the colony of Monrovia (which would eventually become the country of Liberia) in western Africa. The society contends that the immigration of blacks to Africa is an answer to the problem of slavery as well as to what it feels is the incompatibility of the races. Over the course of the next forty years, about 12,000 slaves are voluntarily relocated. for his agricultural advances. 1896- Plessy v. Ferguson: This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South.

1905- W.E.B. DuBois founds the Niagara movement, a forerunner to the NAACP. The movement is formed in part as a protest to Booker T. Washington's policy of accommodation to white society; the Niagara movement embraces a more radical approach, calling for immediate equality in all areas of American life.
(Franklin& Moss, 1994)

1909- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New York by prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W.E.B. Du Bois. For the next half century, it would serve as the country's most influential African-American civil rights organization, dedicated to political equality and social justice In 1910, its journal, The Crisis, was launched. 1914- Marcus Garvey establishes the Universal Negro Improvement Association, an influential black nationalist organization "to promote the spirit of race pride" and create a sense of worldwide unity among blacks. 1920s- The Harlem Renaissance flourishes in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement fosters a new black (Haney, 2007) cultural identity.

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1947- Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier when he is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey.

1948- Although African Americans had participated in every major U.S. war, it was not until after World War II that President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces. 1952- Malcolm X becomes a minister of the Nation of Islam. Over the next several years his influence increases until he is one of the two most powerful members of the Black Muslims (the other was its leader, Elijah Muhammad). A black nationalist and separatist movement, the Nation of Islam contends that only blacks can resolve the problems of blacks. 1954- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional (May 17).

1955- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger (Dec. 1). In response to her arrest Montgomery's black community launch a successful year-long bus boycott. Montgomery's buses are desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956.

1957- Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. (Sept. 24). Federal troops and the National Guard are called to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine." Despite a year of violent threats, several of the "Little Rock Nine" manage to graduate from Central High.

1963-Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala. He writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which advocated nonviolent civil disobedience. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is attended by about 250,000 people, the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital. Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The march builds momentum for civil rights legislation (Aug. 28).
(Haney, 2007)

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1964- President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. It prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin (July 2). Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize. (Oct.) 1965-Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is assassinated (Feb. 21). State troopers violently attack peaceful demonstrators led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as they try to cross the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Fifty marchers are hospitalized on "Bloody Sunday," after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. The march is considered the catalyst for pushing through the voting rights act five months later (March 7). Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal (Aug. 10).In six days of rioting in Watts, a black section of Los Angeles, 35 people are killed and 883 injured (Aug. 11-16). 1966- The Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (Oct.). 1967-President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court. He becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice. The Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. Sixteen states still have anti-miscegenation laws and are forced to revise them.

1968-Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. (April 4). President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing (April 11).

1972-The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis experiment ends. Begun in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service's 40-year experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis has been described as an experiment that "used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone." 1978-The Supreme Court case, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke upheld the constitutionality of affirmative action, but imposed limitations on it to ensure that providing greater opportunities for minorities did not come at the expense of the rights of the majority (June 28). 1992- The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of
(Haney, 2007)

Great Achievements

1846- Norbert Rillieux was issued his first patent for a revolutionary system of refining sugar. Before his invention, refining the juice of sugar cane into granular sugar was a laborious and dangerous operation. His vacuum evaporation system was simpler and less expensive, and produced a higher-quality sugar. The system was soon adopted by refineries in Louisiana, Mexico, and the West Indies. 1848- Lewis Temple invented a toggle harpoon, that was said to be the most important invention in the history of the whaling industry. Temple neglected to patent his invention and never benefited from its profits.

1872- Elijah McCoy patented his first invention, an automatic lubricator that supplied oil to moving parts while a machine was operating. He inspired the term The Real McCoy, which indicates authenticity. McCoy acquired more than fifty patents in his lifetime; along with various lubricating devices, he invented an ironing table and a lawn sprinkler. He also founded the Elijah McCoy Manufacturing Company in Detroit. 1882- Lewis Latimers invention was a long lasting carbon filament for electric light bulbs. He was the only African American member of the famed Edison Pioneers, that worked for Thomas Edison.

1883- Jan Matzeliger received a patent for the first lasting machine that would turn out a complete shoe. His invention revolutionized the shoe industry and was in demand throughout the world. He started the invention because he realized there was no machine that could automatically last a shoe, that is, connect the upper part to the sole. 1887- Granville T. Woods patented a railroad telegraph system that was designed to avert accidents by allowing messages to be sent between moving trains and between trains and railroad stations. The same year he invented a system for electric trains that utilized a pole extending to an overhead power-line: the system was soon adopted for use with electric trolleys. Woods secured more than sixty patents before he died in 1910.
(Potter, 2002)

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1891- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first in the country with an interracial staff. 1893- Dr. Williams made history when he opened the chest of a young black man who had been stabbed in a fight, repaired the hole in the membrane surrounding his heart without X-rays, antibiotics, or blood transfusions and saved the mans life.

1943- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for the establishment of the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri, the birthplace of this eminent scientist. Dedicated in 1953, it became the first federal monument honoring an African American. Carver was a pioneer in agricultural research and plant chemistry, he developed the peanut and the sweet potato. He created many new uses for agricultural products, including more than three hundred for peanuts and more than a hundred for sweet potatoes and soybeans. Among them were soap, vinegar, and wood stains.

1916- Garrett A. Morgan came to public attention in a big way when, using a breathing device he had invented to take part in dramatic rescue. A disastrous explosion occurred in a tunnel below Lake Erie, trapping a number of workers. Morgan wearing his newly invented device, which was called a Safety Hood, went into the smoke filled shaft and pulled the workers to safety. The army saw the value in the invention and made improvements that created the gas mask. 1923- Morgan after seeing an accident between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage on a busy street, he invented and patented the first automatic three-position traffic light.

1939-Dr. Charles R. Drew, famous for his work in the preservation of blood, developed techniques for separating and preserving blood, and determined that plasma could be stored much longer than whole blood. He was instrumental in setting up a blood plasma bank at New Yorks Presbyterian Hospital, the first of its kind in the country.
(Potter, 2002)

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1909- Commander Robert Peary mounted his eighth attempt to reach the North Pole, selecting Matthew Henson to be one of the team of six who would make the final run to the Pole. Before the goal was reached, Peary could no longer continue on foot and rode in a dog sled. Various accounts say he was ill, exhausted, or had frozen toes. In any case, he sent Henson on ahead as a scout. Henson was the lead that had overshot the mark a couple of miles, making the first footprints to plant the American flag.

1955- Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery bus and was told by white passengers to move to the back of the bus and at the time blacks were forced to sit on the back of the bus. Parks refused to move and was arrested . Martin Luther King started a major boycott of the citys buses by African Americans in response to Parks arrest. Blacks made up more than three-quarters of the Montgomery bus passengers.

1983- Guion S. Bluford, Jr. became the first African American astronaut in space when he flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger on its night launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Two years after his first flight, he participated in the nation first space-lab mission. (Potter, 2002)

1986- Eighteen years after this profound civil rights leader was assassinated, the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was made a national holiday. He was one of the planners of the 1963 March on Washington, where he made famous I have a dream....... speech, a year later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
(Franklin& Moss, 1994)

Great Achievements Pg.4

Lincoln Theodore Andrew Monroe Andrew Perry, better known as Stepin Fetchit, was the first African American Hollywood Star. Fetchit s first big break in movies was the 1929 all black talkie, Hearts in Dixie. Hattie McDaniel appeared in almost fifty films in the 1930s and her talent was finally rewarded when she was presented with an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Mammy, in the 1939 hit movie Gone with the Wind. She was the first African American to receive an Oscar, but because of her race, she was not allowed to attend the movies premiere in Atlanta. 1963- Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for his role in Lilies in the Field, becoming the first African American actor to receive an Academy Award. Among his many honors were life achievement awards from the American Film Institute, the Kennedy Center, and the Screen Actors Guild. At the Academy Awards Ceremony in 2002 Poitier was given an honorary Oscar for his lifes work. Only five months after DC comics began distributing a line of comic books published by New Yorks Milestone Media, Inc.buyers snatched up more than three million copies of of its first four titles: Hardware, Blood Syndicate, Icon, and Static, all featuring African American men: Derek Dingle, Denys Cowan, Dwayne McDuffie, and Michael Davis. Their aim to present colorful heroes battling in a realistic world. Becoming the first African American-owned company to have its own line of superhero comics.

1983 Vanessa Williams was crowned the first African American Miss America and went on in 1987 to start a singing career. She currently acting in various roles in todays movies. 1998- the famed Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus introduced its new singing ringmaster, Jonathan Lee Iverson, the youngest in the circuss 119 year history and the first African American.
(Potter, 2002)

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Considered one of the greatest jockeys in racing history, Isaac Murphy, won the Kentucky Derby in 1884, and won it again in 1890 and 1891. In December 1899. Dr. George F. Grant, an African American dentist and an amateur golfer, received a patent for a wooden golf tee. Before his invention, golfers had to balance their balls on mounds of damp sand. Wilt Chamberlain standing seven feet, two inches tall and 265 pounds in 1959, with the Philadelphia Warriors at the time became the first player to score one hundred points in a single game. He was also the first player in the NBA to score 30,000 points.

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay Jr., was World Heavy weight Boxing Champion during 1964-67, 1974-78, and 1978-79. For most of his career he could, as he claimed, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Twenty thousand people including General Colin Powell and more than one hundred Buffalo Soldier veterans, attended the dedication of the National Buffalo Soldier Monument at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 25, 1992. Eddie Dixon, an African American sculptor spent two and a half years creating the work. Buffalo Soldiers, name given to the African-American U.S. army regiments commissioned by Congress to patrol the American West after the Civil War, serving in the Ninth and Tenth Calvary units. They continued in army service until the U.S. armed forces were integrated in 1952.
(Franklin& Moss, 1994)

1927- The Harlem Globetrotters were formed in Chicago and originally named the Savoy Big Five. Serious competitors on the court, they won 100 games and lost only 6 in their first season. Later they also became known as comedians on the court, famous for their trick shots, suddenly switching to the rules for baseball or soccer, and their fast and tricky dribbling and sleight of hand with the ball.

(Potter, 2002)

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1. What was the formal system that helped slaves escape to North during the mid-1800s? a) Midnight Express b) Highway to Heaven c) Underground Railroad d) Northern Roads 2. The all-black basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters was formed in what year? a)1925 b)1927 c)1929 d)1935 3. Where Martin Luther King Jr., deliver his famous I Have a Dream speech? a)Washington D.C. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial b)Montgomery, Alabama c)Birmingham, Alabama d)Atlanta, Georgia 4. Who was the rst African American to make a space ight? a) Dr. Mae Jemison b)Robert H. Lawerence c)Guy S. Bluford, Sr. d)Guion (Guy) S. Bluford, Jr. 5.In which year did historian Carter G. Woodson propose a Negro History Week? a)1929 b)1926 c)1962 d)1915

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Multiple Choice questions

6. What is an Abolitionist? a) a person who believed slavery was just and fair b) a person who wanted to end slavery c) a person who wanted to secede from the North d) all of the above 7. Who were the Little Rock Nine? a) a group of non-violent civil rights marchers who were arrested and imprisoned. b) a group of students who showed by making straight As they could be in a desegregated school c) a group of black students who bravely worked to desegregate all-white Central High School in Arkansas. d) all of the above 8. Who was the rst person to reach the North Pole? a) Christopher Columbus b) Matthew Henson c) Ferdinand Magellen d) Robert E. Pearsy 9. Who was the rst African Miss America? a)Vanessa Williams b)Tyra Banks c)Halle Berry d)two of the above 10. Who was the rst African American millionaire? a)Madame C. J. Walker b)Oprah Winfrey c)William Liedesdorff d)two of the above

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Answer True or False

11. Denzel Washington was the rst African American actor to win an Oscar. True or False 12. Hiram Revels, the rst African-American U.S. senator, took his oath of ofce on February 25, 1870. True or False 13. Fredrick Douglass founded Tuskegee Institute, one of the leading African-American educational institutions in America, in 1881? True or False 14. Malcolm X, militant black nationalist leader, was assassinated on March 10, 1967. True or False Matching 15. patented a vacuum system for rening sugar 16. invented the rst toggle harpoon for whaling 17. singing ringmaster for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus 18. designed the rst automatic lubricator 19. invented the rst long lasting carbon lament for light bulbs 20. to promote the spirit of race pride" and create a sense of worldwide unity among blacks. 21. created the rst shoe machine to make a complete shoe 22. invented the rst railroad telegraph system a. Marcus Garvey b. Norbert Rillieux c. Lewis Latimer d. Jonathan Lewis Iverson e. Jan Matzeliger f. Lewis Temple g. Granville T. Woods h. Elijah McCoy

Black History In America Test

Matching a) landmark Supreme Court decison holds that racial segregation is constitutional b) Constitution amendment prohibiting slavery c) passed by Southern states, restricting the rights of newly freed slaves d)Constitution amendment dening citizenship e) declares that all people held as slaves within the Confederate state are and henceforward shall be free. 23. Thirteenth Amendment 24. Fourteenth Amendment 25. Emancipation Proclamation 26. Plessy v. Ferguson 27. Black codes

Fill in the Blanks 28. The 29. is founded in New York by prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W.E.B. Du Bois. declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.

30. , famous for his work in the preservation of blood, developed techniques for separating and preserving blood, and determined that plasma could be stored much longer than whole blood. 31. The Supreme Court case, upheld the constitutionality of afrmative action, but imposed limitations on it to ensure that providing greater opportunities for minorities did not come at the expense of the rights of the majority. 32. Muhammad Ali, born , was World Heavy weight Boxing Champion during 1964-67, 1974-78, and 1978-79. For most of his career he could, as he claimed, oat like a buttery, sting like a bee.

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Essay for Black History in America Mr. Starling

This essay was developed so I as your teacher can get a better understanding of your learning during this ve week course. Remember answer questions in complete sentences. ( Write answers on a separate sheet of paper) 1) Explain what topic you choice for your report? Explain why you chose?

2) What are two of the topics that you chose to add into your timelime? Are there any connections between them?

3) What part of Black History do you nd more interesting? Any times or people?

4) What Black History Facts really made you feel happy or sad?

5) Which Black History fact do you think inuences Black History the most today?

6) What is Black History in your own words?

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Franklin & Moss, J.,A. (1994). From Slavery to Freedom. Washington, D.C.: McGraw-Hill, Inc. Potter , J. (2002). African American Firsts. New York, NY: Dafina Books. Haney, E. (2007). The History of Black History. Retrieved July 29, 2008, from infoplease.com Web site: file:///Users/ leshawnstarling/Desktop/Black%20History%20Month:%20the%20History%20of%20Black%20History%20 %20Infoplease.com.webarchive
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