African American History MP3

1. African American History MP3

2. Day 1 Bellringer • What was the IMPACT of the Harlem Renaissance?

3. Renaissance-ical Renaissance Riting • Using unit 10 or other online resources, or even the US History book, make an artistic written project showing the importance of the Harlem Renaissance. • Poem, song, fictional story

4. Great Depression for African Americans • Using the very end of Unit 10 and all of Unit 11…Write a quiz with ten questions focusing on the topic “Why was the Great Depression worse for African Americans?” • You will turn this in before you leave today.

5. Day 2 Bellringer • Modern Day, what political party do the majority of African Americans belong to? This week, we’ll be going from happy to sad…

6. Quizzes time – these are your own questions from last time.

7. Video • While watching the video on the Great Depression, take 30 notes – each one needs to be a full, complete, detailed thought (so no three word notes) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsmVqU7-lo4

8. Day 3 Bellringer • Why was the GD worse for African Americans?

9. And now back to happy(ish) • How did Roosevelt’s New Deal help African Americans, and how did it set the table for African Americans to make a major shift from the Republicans (who ended slavery) to the Democrats (who install more welfare programs by a large amount)?

10. New Deal • FDR was elected in 1932 largely in response to the Great Depression. He promised to make rapid, grand-scale changes to turn the economy around. The New Deal was a program for all Americans, but if African Americans were hurt worse by the GD, you can argue that they were helped more by the New Deal.

11. New Deal – 3 R’s • Relief • Quick, stop the “pain” • Recovery • Takes more time, meant to heal • Reform • Fixes the problems • The end result is a new style of gov’t

12. Federal Programs • Several Focal Points: • Work programs to create jobs • Welfare programs to give handouts • Regulations to fix problems that led to GD

13. Lasting Effects • Gov’t became WAY bigger • What does “big government” mean? • People used government programs as a way live • Overall tax amount increased • Some people came to expect gov’t aid

14. As a group – do all of the following, but write individually • From Unit 11 – Find three ways that African Americans saw growth in spite of the Great Depression. • From general online search or the US History book, find 5 New Deal programs that still exist today. • Write a paragraph explaining why African Americans became Democrats starting in the 1930’s.

15. Day 4 Bellringer • What ended the Great Depression?

16. What does this map tell us about African American migration in the 1940’s?

17. April 4, 1995, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaInterviewer: Giles R. Wright • A seventy-seven year-old black native Philadelphian, Reginald W. Maddox, recalled a particular incident of racial discrimination he experienced while serving in the navy during World War II. He described this incident in the following manner: • After we finished our basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago, we were sent to the Millington Naval Air Station in Tennessee. At this base, several miles north of Memphis, I underwent training as an aviation machinist mate for about six months. At the completion of this training, around October of 1943, I, along with eleven other black seamen, was transferred to the naval air base at Pasco, Washington. In order to get there, we took a buts to Memphis where we were to get a train that would carry us to Seattle. We arrived at the train station and, after getting off the bus, marched to an area close to the entrance to the station's restaurant for whites. As we stood there, we could see into this restaurant. And inside we saw a group of about thirty fellows dressed in brown shirts with large white letters that said "PW." These letters reached from the shoulder to the waist, front and back. We didn't know who they were. One of us asked the white seaman in charge of us who they were. And we were told that they were German prisoners of war. This caught everyone's attention for a moment or two. And someone said, "Daggone Germans can go in there and we can't. Isn't this something." And we were thinking that here we have on the uniform of this nation and the people who we are fighting against -- who might have to shoot at us and we at them -- are able to go into a restaurant that we can't enter. But they were white, and white was right. So, we didn't think about it too long because we knew we were in the South where there were the regular signs everywhere saying "White" and "Colored." So we marched on off, went around the back, upstairs, to the station's colored restaurant, and waited for our train.

18. Comparing Treatment in WWI and WWII • Make a venn diagram comparing treatment of African americans in the two great wars. • You need 5 in each section (WWI,WWII,both)

19. Day 5 Bellringer • Why did we say runaway slave notices might often be inaccurate?

20. Oral testimony • Make a t-chart discussing why we should and should not rely on oral testimony/history should rely should not rely -5 things -5 things

21. Unit 13 info • test