Early history. Triangular trade & The Middle Passage ; African Americans in the American Revolution ; The slave codes & Nat Turner's Rebellion -- Slavery. A day in the life of a slave ; Harriet Tubman ; Harriet Tubman (continued) ; The Underground Railroad ; The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ; The Dred Scott decision -- The abolitionist movement. Uncle Tom's cabin ; The abolitionists ; Frederick Douglass ; Sojourner Truth -- The Civil War & post-Civil War years. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment ; The Emancipation Proclamation ; The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments ; Buffalo soldiers ; Hiram Revels -- 1890 to 1920. Plessy v. Ferguson ; The Jim Crow laws ; Sharecropping ; Booker T. Washington ; George Washington Carver ; The NAACP -- The 1920s & the Harlem Renaissance. The Tulsa race riot ; The Great Migration ; The Harlem Renaissance ; Langston Hughes ; W.E.B. DuBois ; Marcus Garvey & James Weldon Johnson -- Jazz. Louis Armstrong ; Duke Ellington ; The Cotton Club -- The 1930s and 1940s. Jesse Owens ; Joe Louis ; The Tuskegee Airmen ; Jackie Robinson

Eight units, each accompanied by student activities, focusing on the events and notable people in the history of African Americans in the United States; includes answer key for student activities