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Understanding Black American History Through Key Events

Explore the traumatic past of Black Americans in the USA, including slavery, lynching, and struggles for civil rights, through a chronological timeline of significant events. Gain an overview of African civilizations and the hardships faced by slaves, leading to the Civil Rights Movement progress. Understand the context behind pivotal moments in Black American history.

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Understanding Black American History Through Key Events

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  1. Image Source http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/p11/p11_8Large.jpg

  2. TASK: Can you complete the picture?

  3. CLUE: it was taken in the USA about 70 years ago.

  4. TASK: Write three sentences, using plenty of adjectives, to describe this scene.

  5. This was a ‘lynching’. These were common occurrences in Southern USA during the Twentieth Century.

  6. Black people were also subjected to things such as : • Beatings. • Tarring and Feathering. • Kidnappings. • Floggings. • Orders to leave town. • Murders. • Mutilations. • …and one person was branded with acid, with the ‘N’.

  7. So what are today’s aims: • To gain an ‘OVERVIEW’ (or a ‘BIG PICTURE UNDERSTANDING’) of Black American’s history. • To complete a ‘timeline teaser’ some of the main events.

  8. In this topic you are going to learn about: • The African civilisations. • What it means to be a slave. • What life was like as a slave. • The reasons for slavery. • How slaves won their freedom. • The Civil rights movement.

  9. When Black people first came to the USA, they were captured and treated like this… Who have the slaves been captured by? Why do you think this is?

  10. …and forced to work like this…

  11. …but, in 2002 three Black actors won ALL three of the most important awards at USA’s most famous event – the Oscars.

  12. TASK: Arrange the key events on the Excel file into chronological sequence.

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