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Black History Month 2025
Black History Month 2025
Cold War Jazz/ Political Music
PBS Series: https://www.pbs.org/show/jazz-ambassadors/
Time Magazine: https://time.com/5056351/cold-war-jazz-ambassadors/
Dizzie Gillespie's Joke Presidential Campaign: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/dizzy-gillespie-for-president-1964-campaign?srsltid=AfmBOopLZc8mSror3A0bSbo59HqlxA15MaGLUjQNz_ExnB_eotePSNsk
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Mendez vs. Westminster
Mendez vs. Westminster
Focus: The role California played in desegregating the US, overlap with Japanese American Incarceration
Residential Schools [Recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day]
Residential Schools [Recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day]
Focus: Recognizing Indigenous peoples day, honoring the survivors/victims of Federal Indian Boarding Schools
Third World Liberation Front
Third World Liberation Front
Focus: Asian, Chicano/a, Black Solidarity
Resources
Origins of Hispanic Heritage Month
Origins of Hispanic Heritage Month
Include: discussion/origins of term "Hispanic"
Resources
Local History: East LA Punk Bands
Local History: East LA Punk Bands
Focus: Economic origins of punk, development of Chicano Punk in East LA\
Resources
https://hyperallergic.com/579836/we-paid-for-this-town-the-legacy-of-chicanx-punk-in-la/
https://www.laweekly.com/the-vex-and-chicano-punk-a-very-brief-history/
https://lataco.com/chicano-rock-history-kcet-funk-punk
Local History: Chavez Ravine
Local History: Chavez Ravine
Focus: Defining gentrification, politics of displacement, continuing today
Resources:
Black History Month
Black History Month
First AME Churches
First AME Churches
Focus: Significance of black churches in the Civil Rights Movement
Resources:
https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-civil-rights-era-video/the-black-church/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/godinamerica-black-church/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/the-history-and-importance-of-the-black-church/
https://www.laconservancy.org/learn/historic-places/first-african-methodist-episcopal-church/
Civil Disobedience + Organizing
Civil Disobedience + Organizing
Focus: Emphasizing the agency of black organizers during Civil Rights protests
define Civil Disobedience and Agency
Use Rosa Parks/Claudette Colvin as an example
Resources:
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/claudette-colvin-twice-toward-justice/
https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2017-06/BeyondTheBus2015_0.pdf
You can use this story about Florida to explain why we need to argue for agency: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/us/florida-textbook-race-rosa-parks-reaj/index.html
Black Panthers
Black Panthers
Focus: What did the black panthers want? what did they do when the US would not provide it? What systems were adopted by schools today?
Resources:
10 Point Plan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aEDZtEG-pbedzJtUPx5bM0vSU4PC47c-SArBpIpdhI0/edit?usp=sharing
US Government Actions against the Black Panthers - Cointelpro; Fred Hampton
Free Breakfast: https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
Black Music
Black Music
Focus: Origins of American Music (West African culture, African American culture) and its impact on music today
Resources:
Banjo: https://youtu.be/RiP8Tfa8bB8
Blues: https://youtu.be/HYy-6ltraVQ
Gospel and Disco: https://youtu.be/W0YoYr14xuw
Gospel: youtu.be/kJ20nm_g3Uc
HBCU's and Drumline: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPEzHd3sVTg
Rock and Roll: https://youtu.be/NOZvxoPGoCM
Rock and Roll: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhSIGPra2ss
Black LA
Black LA
https://www.pbssocal.org/lost-la-curriculum
specifically the African Americans and Hollywood, Beach Culture, South Central, and Greenbook lessons
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c9c7c9db4d3f4c2aa5bb967a51c7d768
https://www.getty.edu/conservation/our_projects/field_projects/la_african_american_historic_places/
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