The Gist of Freedom   Preserving American History through Black Literature . . .

The NJ AMISTAD COMMISSION Infuses African American Contributions Into Curriculum


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The New Jersey Amistad Commission Executive Director Stephanie James
New Jersey schools incorporate African American history into their K-12 social studies curricula and appropriate content areas. This legislation created the Amistad Commission, a 23-member body charged with ensuring that African American historical content, contributions and experiences are taught in the state’s classrooms on a daily basis, and infused into all district curricula, lessons, testing, and presentations. The NJAC has become a national model for the revision of social studies education. New Jersey was first in the nation to pass such legislation. 
Topics: The history of the Anti- Lynching Movement
Ida B.Wells published a study of lynching and travelled to England twice in the mid-1890s lecturing and lobbying against the bloody American scourge of lynching.
Paul Robeson and Albert Einstein 
Einstein and Robeson also worked together on the American Crusade to End Lynching,The 20-year friendship between Einstein and Robeson is scheduled to be memorialized in A movie starring  Danny Glover slated to play Robeson and Ben Kingsley as Einstein
PAUL Robeson and the United Nations We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People is a paper accusing the United States government of genocide based on the UN Genocide Convention. This paper was written presented to the United Nations at meetings in Paris in December 1951.
SILENT PROTEST PARADE  NAACP’s Silent Protest Parade, held on July 28, 1917. On July 28, nearly 10,000 black men, women, and children wordlessly paraded down New York’s Fifth Avenue.
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