African and African-American History Study Outline
Ancient Africa:
Egypt - Science, architecture, knowledge, culture
Ethiopia
Cush
Zimbabwe
Slavery and the Effects on Africa
How did it start?
When?
Where?
How many?
Who participated?
Was there really a trade?
Who benefited?
Slavery in the Americas
The Columbus Myth
The Middle Passage
"Seasoning"
Plantation life - What does it truly mean to be owned by another person?
Beginnings in America
Red, White and African slavery in America
Promises broken… the desire for freedom
Rebellions
Movement toward abolition
The Civil War
Slavery Metamorphosis - The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Reconstruction and Betrayal: Reversal of Fortunes, Jim Crow and the KKK
Buffalo Soldiers, the Rough Riders, the 101st Infantry, the Tuskeegee Airmen
Peonage, chain gangs
Sharecropping - another form of slavery that continued into the 1960's
Race Riots, lynchings and criminalization of a people
The International Struggle Against Racism, Exploitation, Colonialism and Slavery
The Fight for Racial Equality
- Origins
- Key figures
- Key events
- Mississippi 1963
- Marcus, Malcolm, Martin, Medgar, Mandella and Me
- The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (plus Huey, H. "Rap", Fred Hampton, Stokley)
- The Muslims and the Nation of Islam
Integration and the effect on the African-American community
Drugs and other trick bags (Government conspiracy or what?)
Politics as usual
Prisons as tools to foster genocide
Affirmative Action - What does it really mean?
Africa today - Pan Africanism and Neocolonialism
African heroes and sheroes - in every possible endeavor
Bibliography:
Black History for Beginners - Denise Dennis
Before the Mayflower - Lerone Bennet, Jr.
The Holy Bible- prefer to use the versions with the names of African people highlighted
Malcolm X - On Afro American History
Selected articles and essays by Jack Crawford
American Negro Slave Revolts - by Herbert Aptheker
Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery - Dr. N Akbar
Many others for short subjects
Videos:
Africa Series /10 Volumes- Dr. Ali Mazuri
Eye on the Prize
Lectures by Drs. Mackey, Scobie, J.G. Jackson
Black Wallstreet
Sankofa - Order this movie from the web
Malcolm X - The Real Story
All Power to the People - The Story of the Black Panther Party
Various editions of Tony Brown’s Journal and Like It Is
The Promised Land Series
Roots
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