Learning Pathway: Black Lives Matter

Building Democracy For All is designed so that teachers and students can follow different learning pathways as they explore the material in the book. Rather than proceeding sequentially through the standards, the learning pathways invite a thematic approch. Learning pathways include: Black Lives Matter, Student Rights, Influential Women, and Powers of Federal and State Government.

LEARNING PATHWAY:  Black Lives Matter

Topic 1: The Philosophical Foundations of the United States Political System

• Standard 1.2: UNCOVER: Spartacus and Slavery in the Roman World, Toussaint L’Ouverture, and Black American Slave Revolts

Topic 2: The Development of United States Government

• Standard 2.3: UNCOVER: Thomas Jefferson’s Draft Constitution & Thurgood Marshall’s Bicentennial Speech
• Standard 2.3: ENGAGE: Did the Three-Fifths Compromise Make the Constitution a Pro-Slavey Document?: 
• Standard 2.5: UNCOVER: W.E.B. Du Bois, the Niagara Movement, and the History of NAACP

Topic 3: Institutions of United States Government

• Standard 3.1: UNCOVER: Shirley Chisholm, African American Politician and Presidential Candidate
• Standard 3.5: UNCOVER: The Black Panther Party

Topic 4: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens

• Standard 4.4: UNCOVER: The 14th Amendment
• Standard 4.5: UNCOVER: Secret Ballots, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Voter Restriction Laws
• Standard 4.7: UNCOVER: Benjamin Banneker and George Washington Carver
• Standard 4.8: UNCOVER: Ruby Bridges and Youth Activism
• Standard 4.10: INVESTIGATE: Movements for Civil Rights
• Standard 4.11: INVESTIGATE: Joseph Cinque, John Quincy Adams, and the Amistad Case
• Standard 4.12: INVESTIGATE: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Disobedience
• Standard 4.13: INVESTIGATE: A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Topic 5: The Constitution, Amendments, and Supreme Court Decisions

• Standard 5.3: INVESTIGATE: The Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott Case, and the 54th Volunteer Regiment During the Civil War
• Standard 5.3: UNCOVER: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
• Standard 5.4: INVESTIGATE: The 1964 Civil Rights Law and Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Standard 5.6: ENGAGE: Kneeling and Flag Protests

Topic 6: The Structure of Massachusetts State and Local Government

• Standard 6.2: UNCOVER: Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) and The Abolition of Slavery in Massachusetts
• Standard 6.2: ENGAGE: Should the Government Pay Slavery Reparations for Black Americans?

Topic 7: Freedom of the Press andNews/Media Literacy

• Standard 7.3: UNCOVER: Two Pioneering Women Cartoonists: Jackie Ormes and Dale Messick