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Destruction of African American Life tells of the destruction of black towns and is the 19th activity in the ECG Black History Month (BHM) series. Starting with:
Activity #1: The Original People
Activity #2: What Makes Black People Black
Activity #3: The Lebombo & Ishango Bones
Activity #4: Pre-Colonial Africa
Activity #5: The African Diaspora
Activity #6: Slavery in the Americas
Activity #7: The Power of the Reconstruction Era
Activity #8: More on the Black Codes and Jim Crow
Activity #9: Anti-Black Racist Propaganda
Activity #10: Blacks As Artists and Subjects
Activity #11: Culture and Music Innovators
Activity #12: Fashion Trend Setters
Activity #13: Researching Your Genealogy
Activity#14: Amazing African Genetics
Activity#15: Some of the First Teachers (After Moms)
Activity #16: The Great Repair
Activity#17: What More Can Black People Do?
Activity#18: Fake Wins and Symbolic Victories
This 20-Activity series provides supplemental learning for each school day of the month of February 2023. The first activity is FREE but each subsequent activity will be offered at a discount during BHM. Activities will be uploaded throughout the month of February. Come back each day for the latest activity.
The activities contain a vocabulary section to ensure students are comprehending the material, a reading section which includes much of the vocabulary and introduces students to the topic, a STEM section which requires students to scientifically think about the material and may include vocabulary, and a writing section which requires students to reflect on the material or answer the prompt using evidence or by making inferences. The Brief Student Reading!
After slavery, Black American towns began to spring up all around the United States of America.
These freed people wanted to separate themselves from non-blacks in all black towns to become successful and to escape the persecution and violence of white people. Since 1865, and well into the 20th century, (the 1900s), white people destroyed many of these black towns and massacred the residents.
The movie Rosewood tells the story of the destruction of the town by the same name.
The burning of the black part of Tulsa, Oklahoma is becoming well known today due to the testimonies of its last survivors.
The video, Not Just Tulsa: 5 Destroyed Black Towns, sheds some light on other towns that were destroyed.
The The Decolonial Atlas posted a graphic of several Black Massacres in the U.S. In most (if not all) of these cases, no white person was ever punished for the death and destruction they’ve caused to black people over the years.
Also, not many people received reparations to repair the harm caused by these rioting white Americans. Black people had to suffer in silence.
End of Brief Student Reading!
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