Attention:Teachers Parents and Students - What should you be learning, teaching and understanding about Black History starting at the middle school level.
California Content Standards related to Black History:
8.2-3 The major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution, including the debate regarding slavery.
8.6-4 The lives of Black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded schools and churches to advance Blacks rights and communities during the first half of the 1800's.
8.7-2 The origins and development of the institution of slavery; its effects on Black Americans and on the political, social, religious, economic and cultural development of the South (from 1620 to the Civil War); the various attempted strategies to both overturn slavery and to preserve it .
8.7-4 The lives and opportunities of free-blacks in the North in comparison with the lives and opportunities of free-blacks in the South.
8.8-5 Mexican settlements including (but not limited to) their attitudes toward slavery.
8.9 How to analyze the early attempts to abolish slavery in terms of 1. Leaders of the movement (for example: Jon Quincy Adams and his proposed constitutional amendment; John Brown and the armed resistance; Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad, Frederick Douglas) 2. How early state constitutions abolished slavery. 3. The role of the Northwest Ordinance in education and in banning slavery in new states north of the Ohio River. 4. The slavery issue as raised during the Compromise of 1850. 5. The States' Rights Doctrine as expressed in ...the Dred Scott decision. 6. The lives of free blacks and the laws that curbed their freedom and economic opportunity.
8.10 Key events and complex consequences in terms of the lives of Black soldiers and regiments.
8.11 Learning to analyze the character and lasting consequence of Reconstruction, in terms of: 1. the push-pull factors in the movement of former slaves to the cities in the North and to the West, and their differing experiences in those regions (for example the experiences of the Buffalo Soldiers) 2. The effects of the Freedman's Bureau and the restrictions on the rights and opportunities of freedmen, including racial segregation and "Jim Crow" laws. 3. The rise and the effects of the Ku Klux Klan. 4. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments.
8.12-9 Learning to analyze the transformation of the American economy in terms of the significant inventors and their inventions.
What would the lives of Black People be like today ,if the Constitution of the United States been worded differently and Black People had not been counted as 3/5 of a person? What exactly dose that mean.
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