Education For Life Academy
Where Black History Lives!
The Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Curriculum
historians and librarians all over the country to found the Journal of Negro History (now the Journal of African American History) and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History--ASALH), which celebrates its 100th Anniversary in 2015.
In addition to Woodson, this lesson will introduce students to pioneering historians, scholars, librarians and bibliophiles who dedicated their lives to unearthing, documenting and disseminating facts about African history such as Arthur Schomburg, J.A. Rogers, Vivian Harsh, Charlamae Hill Rollins, John Henrik Clark and Dorothy Porter Wesley. These individuals, along with many others, worked tirelessly to counter the prevailing mis-education and propaganda that proclaimed that Black people had no history or could speak of no worldly accomplishments. This was no easy task. They operated in a racist academic climate where access to books and literature that affirmed the contributions of Africans to world history were rare if nonexistent. Through their work, African Americans began to learn the truth about their history and the walls of miseducation began tumbling down.
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Class 2: The Miseducation of the "Negro"
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"The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future…History must restore what slavery took away."
Intro Unit: The Politics of Education – Enlightenment or Propaganda?
