Quintessa Hathaway Hervey, Ed.S.

February 2015

The Haitian Revolution

Theme 1: Early African HistoryTheme 2: Slavery and SufferingTheme 3: From Slavery to FreedomTheme 4: Reconstruction and SegregationTheme 5: Progress, Achievements. LeadersTheme 6: The Civil Rights MovementTheme 7: Modern Times

Grade/Course Standard 2-2.1: Explain the links between early European exploration and the development of the slave trade.2.2: Explores the development of the slave trade in Africa prior to European arrival.Grade/Course Standard 3-3.5: Discuss the significance and concepts behind the Dred Scott Decision by the Supreme Court and the John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry.3.7: Researches the role blacks played in gaining freedom.Grade/Course Standard 4-4.5: Examines the development of the leadership of significant African Americans and their ideas for the improvement of blacks, as well as theideas of their critics.4.6: Describe the importance of cultural developments, including music and sports, in African Americans’ fight against segregation and for aplace in American society.Grade/Course Standard 5-5.1: Understands the background and intellectual content of racism during the late 19th century.Grade/Course Standard 6-6.2: Examine the facts, leadership, tactics, and the effects of various Civil Rights activities. (i.e.-Little Rock Crisis, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, theAlbany Movement, March on Washington, Freedom Summer, and Bloody Sunday)6.3: Analyze the changing nature of the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s.Grade/Course Standard 7-7.2: Examine the basic political, development among African Americans from the 1980s to present.7.3: Examine the basic social development among African Americans from the 1980s to present.7.4: Examine the basic cultural development among African Americans from the 1980s to present. (i.e.-Black art and literature, Black Feminism,relationships with police, The Nation of Islam, movement and controversy over reparations)