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 

In this unit, students will:• Identify tactics, mission, and accomplishments of major groups involved in the movement for equality• Investigate the causes, consequences, and historical context of key events in this time period• Evaluate how individuals, groups, and institutions in the United States have both promoted and hindered people’s struggle for freedom, equality, and social justice;• Analyze the role of the federal government in supporting and inhibiting various 20th century civil rights movements;• Analyze the role of women of color in the women’s rights movement.Compelling Question: How successful have Black Americans’ movements for equality been in transforming the dreams, status, and rights of Black Americans in the United States?Pre-Assessment: Student Identity: Imagine you are a student during the time period. Describe your school day in a onepage journal entry.

Developed By: Dennis Culliton and Paquita Jarman-Smith Soon after the settlement of New England, slavery, first Indigenous and then African, became a way to support the export driven economy of the region. This unit will focus on slavery in Connecticut, the U.S., sources of that history, and how we can use analytical lenses to interpret the evidence and tell the story of local slavery and the individuals held in captivity. Themes of resistance and agency will be explored. In this unit students will: • Analyze how Africans, African Americans, and their descendants have struggled to gain freedom, equality, and social justice. • Explore the ways in which slavery was embedded in culture and legislation. • Investigate how multiple racial and cultural perspectives influence the interpretation of slavery. Compelling Question: How were some Africans from the global diaspora able to assert their agency to resist slavery; why were other Africans unable to do this?

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 

Semester 1: Unit 2 At-A-Glance: How African Americans Persisted: Slavery and Freedom Stories of Resistance and AgencyIn this unit, students will:• Analyze how Africans, African Americans, and their descendants have struggled to gain freedom, equality, and social justice.• Explore the ways in which slavery was embedded in legislation.• Investigate how multiple racial and cultural perspectives influence the interpretation of slavery.Compelling Question: How were some Africans from the global diaspora able to assert their agency to resist slavery; why were other Africans unable to do this?Pre-Assessment: Before beginning this unit, students complete a poll to survey understanding of local and global slavery that existed, the prevalence of slavery in Connecticut and the Caribbean, and the importance of slavery to the U.S. and local economies

Developed By: Dr. Stacey Close and Paquita Jarman-Smith This unit focuses on the period of Reconstruction (1865-77), Black Settlement, Towns, and Settlers in the West (1865-1915), and the struggle against the Jim Crow System. This unit will also go into detail on the political contributions of African American politicians to the passage of the Reconstruction era: acts and laws that brought the right to citizenship, the right to vote, and public education. In addition, this course will focus on the African past as it relates to the development of the African American culture in the western hemisphere. In this unit, students will:• Examine how Africans and African descendants worked individually and collectively to spark revolutionary change to their existence.• Explore the Reconstruction politics through literature and other accounts from primary documents and impact on Whites and Blacks.Compelling Question:  How was the Reconstruction a success or failure? 

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 

In this unit, students will:• Examine how Africans and African descendants worked individually and collectively to spark revolutionary change to their existence.• Explore the Reconstruction politics through literature and other accounts from primary documents and impact on Whites and Blacks.Compelling Question: How was Reconstruction a success or failure?Pre-Assessment Poll or KWL: How did Reconstruction impact Africans, African Americans, and Blacks?

Developed By: David Canton and Paquita Jarman-Smith This unit examines African American history from the political, economic, and cultural impact of Black Power to Black Lives Matter. During this era, African Americans used the vote to demand reform, created organizations such as the Black Panther Party to address police brutality, and created independent social programs. Since 1965, African Americans have made major progress, such as an increase of college graduates and decrease in poverty rate; however, institutional racism continues to undermine the progress of African Americans and African and Black Caribbean immigrants as well as an expanding Black middle class. In this unit, students will:● Examine how the Black community is shaped by a variety of identities, communities, and perspectives.● Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.● Reimagine new possibilities and more just futures for our country and our world drawn from the legacy of African American, Black experiences, intellectual thought, and culture.Compelling Questions: What are the greatest issues facing Blacks and African Americans in the U.S. today? What does radically reimagining new possibilities and more just futures look and sound like now?

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