Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Harlem Renaissance (early civil rights movement) The New Negro Empowerment of art- keeping hope alive Recognition of Black culture through the Arts (film, literature, art, music, and the media)   Jazz as popular music known as the Jazz Age Vocabulary: Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Age, Jazz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Bebop, Prohibition, speakeasy Artwork: A program for the Boston Symphony Hall that features Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 1947

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms modern-day “de facto” segregation is a result of policies from the early 20th century Redlining prevented Blacks from buying property Vocabulary: de facto segregation, New Deal, FHA-Federal Housing Authority, redlining  

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Organizing to redress racism Systemic Racism Resistance Reform Equity What is Radical? Landmark court rulings changed the trajectory of American race relations forever Vocabulary:  The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the National Urban League, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), The National Council of Negro Women, The Nation of Islam (NOI), The Congress of Racial Equity (CORE), The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Brown v. BOE, Civil Rights Act 1957, Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Civil Rights Act 1964, and Voting Right Act 1965 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms The fight against fascism abroad and the tremendous contributions of Black servicemen once again ignited the push for justice and equality “at home.” Tuskegee Airmen Lemuel Custis was also Hartford’s first Black police officer Civil Rights Movement benefitting from fight against fascism Vocabulary:  patriotism, heroism, fascism, equality  

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Civil disobedience vs. civil rights Sit-ins and college organizing such as Freedom Riders and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Connection to modern day youth-led movements 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Civil disobedience vs. civil rights Sit-ins and college organizing such as Freedom Riders and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Connection to modern day youth-led movements 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms 5 Themes of Slavery© (i.e., Dehumanization, Treatment of Enslaved, Paternalism, Economics, Agency and Resistance) Freedom Artwork: Freed Slave and Equal Rights Advocate, James Mars, 1870; The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Laws affected the rights of property owners and those held in captivity Connecticut established laws regulating slavery Census data reflects the changes in Connecticut laws about slavery over time Vocabulary:  Chattel, Slavery, Census, reparations, complicity 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Laws affected the rights of property owners and those held in captivity Connecticut established laws regulating slavery Census data reflects the changes in Connecticut laws about slavery over time Vocabulary:  Chattel, Slavery, Census, reparations, complicity 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Impacts of the Reconstruction on the Black Family Reconstruction Amendments Black Codes Vocabulary:   Reconstruction, Amendments, sharecropping 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms African Americans in United States Government Afro-Caribbean Immigration Black Migration to Kansas Great Exodus 1879 Plessy vs. Ferguson  Spanish-American War  Vocabulary:  constitutional rights, segregation, presidential accountability Movement, Exodus, Migration Artwork: Nat Love, African-American cowboy and former slave, pictured circa 1900.

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Jim Crow/Segregation: White Nationalism and Supremacy Multiple roles of Black Americans in Black empowerment and agency, beyond servitude (e.g., W.E.B. DuBois vs. Booker T. Washington) Racial violence, and trauma White Supremacy Resistance and activism against Jim Crow Vocabulary: Racial Trauma, Jim Crow, Activism, Lynching, Resistance, Racial Apartheid, Freedom Dreaming 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Growth and development of both Historically Black Colleges and Public Education as a conduit for greater freedom  Black Wall Street Business Entrepreneurs Vocabulary:  Entrepreneur, HBCU, Education of Blacks 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Radical, reform Revolutionary Africa, Apartheid, the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. Survival Programs, Health Care, Breakfast Programs Black & Brown Power Organizations Black Panthers Young Lords Rainbow Coalition Civil Rights Activists Vocabulary: Radical, Reform, Revolution Artwork: By Angelo Cozzi (Mondadori Publishers) - This file has been extracted from another file: John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Peter Norman 1968.jpg

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms  Black Politicians and activism, 1967-Present: Radical, Reform, Revolutionary National Black policy development, Congressional Black Caucus 1974 Women in politics -Shirley Chisholm Bayard Rustin, “From Protest to Politics”  CT local and state political agendas for equity and social change (mayors, state legislators) 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Impact of cultural expression through the Black Arts Movement (music, poetry, theater, literature and film) Black Aesthetic and its influence on the media and world culture Black Studies/Black Pride Hip-Hop Cultural influences Vocabulary: Black Cultural Production 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Revisit Systemic Racism Housing Segregation/Fair Housing Act 1968 Education, 1989, Sheff v O’Neill Health Care (Health Disparities/COVID-19) Voter Suppression, Shelby v. Holder 2013 Vocabulary: Racism, Prejudice, Stereotype, Radical, Reform, Revolution, Revolutionary 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Police Brutality Founders of Black Lives Matter, Trayvon Martin to George Floyd and local Reparations Kaepernick- Taking the Knee 2020 Protests Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd (Local movements/protests)  Vocabulary: Protest, Black Media, Reparations, Radical, Reform, Revolutionary 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Safe Spaces for learning  Race and racism are words that have been socially constructed Anti-racism Social Justice Identity Diaspora (Who is African American and who is Black?  Who is Puerto Rican and who is Latino?  Who is Afro-Latino?)  Vocabulary:  Culture, Identity, Ethnicity, Social Justice, safe space 

(Historical context/background knowledge for teachers https://bit.ly/2Ud0fxy.  This may be pre-recorded and archived in lesson repository or a speaker may be invited to class.  Teachers should be creative in differentiated delivery from multiple sources and perspectives.)  Big Ideas Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Africa is the birthplace of all humanity and civilization Yoruba, Nigeria, Ga, Ghana, Wolof, Senegal Patrilineal, Matrilineal Societies.  Discovery of Lucy in Hader, Ethiopia affirms that mankind originated in Africa and therefore we are all Africans Africa’s ancient civilization have documented many firsts in technology, literature and structural    Developments (i.e. pyramids, books, numerical systems) Anthropology- The study of human, cultures and their evolution Archeology- the study of human history and prehistory through excavations, artifact analysis and physical remains.