THE KIYAMA CURRICULUM

World History (Part I)

• Ancient
  • Nubia
    1. Nubian Kingdom
    2. Role of Women  (Suggested Reading)
    3. Chronology
  • Egypt
    1. Early Egypt  (Suggested Reading) 
    2. Hatshetsup  ...More
    3. Thutmose III
    4. Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye
    5. Queen Nefertiti   
    6. Akhenaten
    7. King Tutakhamun
    8. Egyptian Mystery System
  • History of Persia
    • Darius The Great
    • Xerxes The Great
  • Greece
    1. Early Greek History
    2. Alexander The Great , More
    3. Herodotus
    4. African Influence  (Suggested Reading)
  • Rome
    1. Early Roman History
       1. War with Hannibal of Carthage 
    2. Roman Emperors
    3. African Presence In Rome
       1. Julia Domna  ...More
       2. Lucsius Quietus 
       3. Cleopatra
    4. The Byzantine Empire
    5. Christianity
       1. List of Popes 
          1. Three African Popes
    6. Huns
       • Attila
    7. The Germanic Tribes 
  • African Presence in Ancient America   (Suggested Reading)
  • Seven Wonders of the World
  • Ancient India
    • African Presence in India/Asia  (Suggested Reading)

World History (Part II)

• European Dark Ages (Suggested Reading) 
  1. Everyday Life
  2. Charlemagne
  3. Timeline
• Birth of Islam
  1. Major Figures
  2. Major Events
  3. Major Places  
• Vikings
• Crusades (Suggested Reading)
• Mongols
  1. Destruction of Baghdad
• The Black Death
• Age of Enlightenment
• French Revolution
• Napoleon
  1. Egyptian Campaign
  2. Haitian Revolution
• Africa (Pre-Colonial)  (Suggested Reading) 
  1. Moors (Suggested Reading)
  2. Ghana
  3. Mali
     1. Timbuktu
  4. Songhay

• The Native American (Suggested Reading) 
  1. Mayan Civilization
  2. Tenochtilan
  3. First Encounter with Europeans
  4. Christopher Columbus 
• Colonial Period
  • Thirteen Colonies
  • American Slavery (Suggested Reading)
    • Alligator Bait
  • Free Blacks 
  • Timeline
• Revolutionary War
  1. Founding Fathers 
     1. Washington & Slavery 
     2. Thomas Jefferson & Slavery  ...More 
        • Sally Hemmings
     3. Alexander Hamilton
        • Federalist Papers
        • On Slavery
        • U.S. Central Bank 
     4. Benjamin Franklin
        1. On Slavery 
  2. Role of Blacks
     1. Crispus Attucks
  3. Queen Sophia of England (The African Queen)
  4. British Figures
  5. Major Battles
  6. Declaration of Independence
  7. Articles of Confederation 
     1. The Document
  8. End of the Conflict
• Famous Blacks of the 18th Century
  • Phllis Wheatley
  • Benjamin Banneker
  • Beethoven...More..  (Suggested Reading)

American History (Part II)

• The New United States of America (Suggested Reading) 
  • Congress of the Confederation
  1. Federal Government
     • The U.S. Constitution
       • 3/5ths of a Man Clause
       • Bill of Rights
     • Electoral College
     • Executive Branch  
       • American Presidents
         1. The Forgotten Presidents
            1. Was John Hanson a Black Man?
         2. Five "Black" Presidents
         • President's Cabinet
           • African Americans who served in the Presidential Cabinet
     • Legislative Branch
       • Congress
         • 1st U.S. Congress
         • House of Representatives
         • U.S. Senate
         • Congressional Black Caucus
           • History of CBC
           • African Americans Members of Congress  
     • Judicial Branch
       • Supreme Court
         •  History of the Court
         • Thurgood Marshall
         • Clarence Thomas
       • Federal Appeal Courts
       • Federal District Courts
         • Find a Federal Court 
         • Prominent African American In the Law
  2. State Government
     • List of State Capitals
     • List of U.S. Governors
     • African American Governors
  3. Municipal Governments
     1. Cities and Towns
     2. Largest U.S. Cities
     • List of U.S. Mayors
       • First African American Mayors

American History (Part III)

• War of 1812
  • Additional Reading
  • Role of Blacks
• The Insurrectionists
  • Gabriel Prosser
  • Denmark Vessey  ...More
  • Nat Turner  (Suggested Reading)
• American - Mexican War
  • The Alamo
• Emergence of the Black Church
• Harriet Tubman
• 1850's   ....Timeline  (Suggested Reading) 
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • The Text
• • Fugitive Slave Act
    • Text of the Act 
    • ...More
  • Dred Scott
  • John Brown ...More  (Suggested Reading)
• The Abolitionist Movement
  • Frederick Douglass   (Suggested Reading) 
  • Henry Highland Garnet
  • Wiiliam Lloyd Garrison 
  • Maria Stewart  (Suggested Reading)
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe 
  • Sojourner Truth  
  • Henry McNeal Turner
  • Harriet Tubman
  • David Walker  (Suggested Reading) 
    • The Appeal
• Abraham Lincoln  (Suggested Reading)
  • Regarding Blacks and Slavery 
  1. Civil War (Suggested Reading)
  2. Emancipation Proclamation
• Freedmen;s Bureau
• Radical Republicans
  • Thaddeus Stevens  (Suggested Reading)
  • Charles Sumner 
• Civil War Amendments
  • Thirteenth Amendment 
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Fifteenth Amendment
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Reconstruction
  1. Timeline
  2. Tilden-Hayes Compromise
  3. Harper's Weekly 
• The First Ku Klux Klan
• Berlin Conference
• Statute of Liberty - A Gift to Celebrate Emancipation?
• Ida B. Wells  ...More 
  • "Lynch Law In America"
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Spanish American War
  1. Theodore Roosevelt
  2. Role of Blacks

American History (Part IV)

• Early 20th Century
  1. African American History (Suggested Reading)
     1. Leaders
        • Marcus Garvey   (Suggested Reading)
        • WEB DuBois  (Suggested Reading)
        • Booker T. Washington  (Suggested Reading) 
          •  Papers
          • Historically Black Colleges and Universities   ...More
     2. Renaissance Movement
        1. Langston Hughes
     3. NAACP Complete History
        • James Weldon Johnson
          • Black National Anthem (Lift Every Voice ansd Sing)
        • The Crisis Magazine
     4. The Second Ku Klux Klan
     5. Black Greek Letter Organizations
     6. Entertainment
        • American Jazz
        • Negro Leagues...More Reading
        • Madame C.J. Walker
        • Jack Johnson
        • Blacks in the Kentucky Derby
     7. Great Migration.... More  ....More
     8. A Black Power Couple in the Early 20th Century
  2. President Woodrow Wilson
     1. Civil Rights  (Suggested Reading) 
     2. The Federal Reserve System   (Suggested Reading) 
        • Understanding Central Banks 
     3. Armenia's Holocaust
     4. World War I
     5. Segregation on the battle front
     6. Bolshevik/Russian Revolution
  3. • Lenin
     • Rosa Luxemburg   (Suggested Reading) 
       • Rosa Luxemburg's Perspective 
       • Karl Liebknecht 
     • Leon Trotsky
       • Leon Trotsky's Perspective 
     1. Treaty of Versailles
  4. Lynching In America   (Suggested Reading) 
     1. Mary Turner Lynching
     2. Ida B. Wells  ...More  (Suggested Reading)
     3. Red Summer of 1919  (Suggested Reading)
     4. Tulsa 1921 - A Race Riot
     5. Rosewood
  5. Prohibition (Suggested Reading)
  6. Women's Suffrage Movement
  7. Nineteenth Amendment
  8. J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI
  9. Great Depression

     1.  Impact on Blacks

American History (Part V)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
  1. New Deal    .....More ....More
  2. 1936 Berlin Olympics ....More
  3. Spanish Civil War
  4. Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. Joe Louis
  6. Civil Rights
• World War II
  • Timeline
  1. Axis Powers
     1. Nazi Germany
        • Hitler and the Nazis  
        • The Jewish Holocaust
          • Kristilnacht
          • Concentration Camps
        • "Hitler's Forgotten Victims" 
        • Rommel and Africa
     2.  Italy   ...More 
        • Mussolini and Italian Fascism
        • War with Ethiopia ...More
     3.  Japan...   More
        • The Emperor
        • Territorial Expansion
        • The Rape of Nanjing (Suggested Reading)
        • Pearl Harbor
  2. Allies
     1. America
        • Major Figures
          1. Eisenhower ....More 
             1. Civil Rights
          2. LeMay 
          3. Patton
          4. McArthur
        • Tuskegee Airmen...  More   ....More
     2. Great Britain
        • Chamberlain
          1. Munich Agreement  ....More
        • Churchill
          • Dresden Bombing
        • Dunkirk
     3. France
        • Dadalier
        • Vichy Government
        • D-Day
        • The Resistance 
        • DeGaulle
     4. Soviet Union
        • Stalin
          • Pact with Hitler
        • Red Army 
     5. End of Conflict in Pacific
        • Harry S. Truman  ....More 
          1. Manhattan Project
             • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
          2. Desgregation of Armed Forces
          3. Civil Rights

American History (Part VI)

• Late 1940's and 1950's
  • African American Experience
    1. Entertainment, Politics, Science, Sports, etc.
       1. Literature
       2. Jackie Robinson  ...More
       3. Althea Gibson 
• Cold War .... (Suggested Reading) 
  • Eastern European Bloc
  • Greek Civil War
  • Korean Conflict  ...More 
    1. The African American Soldier ...More  ...More
       • Korean and African American Affairs
    2. Middle East  ...More ...More 
       1. Map of Middle East 
       2. Israel and Palestinian Conflict  ...More   (Suggested Reading)
       3. Israel and U.S. Relations  (Suggested Reading)
       4. Yassir Arafat
          1. Fatah Party 
       5. Israel and Palestinian Conflict Today
       • Iran
         • Mohammed Moussadegh  (Suggested Reading)
         1. Shah of Iran
            1. SAVAK 
         2. Iranian Revolution
         3. Iran and IraqWar
            1. Role of the U.S.
       • Iraq
         1. Baath Party
         2. Relations with U.S and Britain.
       • Egypt
         1. Gamel Nasser
            1. Suez Canal
         2. Sadat 
         3. Hosni Mubarak
         4. Relations with U.S. ...More
       • Saudi Arabia
         1. The House of Saud
         2. Relations with U.S. ...More  (Suggested Reading)
       • Syria
         1. President Hafez al-Assad
         2. Baath Party
         3. Bashar al-Assad
         4. Golan Hieghts  ...More
         5. Relations with U.S.
    3. Central America (Suggested Reading) 
       • Organization of American States (OAS)
       • Guatemala
         1. Jacabo Arbenz
         2. Relations with U.S.
       • Nicaragua   ..More
         1. Somoza
         2. Sandanistas 
         3. Contra War 
         4. Relations with U.S.
            1. School of the Americas ...More
               1. Opposition to SOA
       • El Salvador
         • Civil War
         • Archbishop Romero
         • Relations with U.S.
       • Honduras
         • Manuel Zelaya and the 2009 Coup  ...More
         • Relations with U.S.
    4. South America  (Suggested Reading) 
       1. Argentina
          1. Peron
          2. Evita
          3. Dirty War
          4. Falkland War
          5. Relations with U.S.  ...More
       • Brazil
         1. 1964 Coup
            1. U.S. Role
         2. Relations with U.S.
       • Colombia
         1. La Violencia
         2. Drug Cartels
         3. Relations with U.S.
       • Paraguay
         1. Alfredo Stroessner
         2. Archives of Terror
         3. Relations with U.S.
       • Uruguay
         1. Jorge Pacheco
         2. Tupamaros 
         3. Relations with U.S.
       • Chile
         1. Salvador Allende ...More  ...More  ...More
         2. Salvador Allende and Hugo Chavez
         3. 9/11 (1973) ...More (Suggested Reading)
         4. Augusto Pinochet 
            1. Operation Condor
            2. Role of the CIA
            3. Crimes of Pinochet  ...More
         5. Relations with U.S. 
    5. Latin America Extended
       1. Cuba
          1. Fidel Castro
          2. Cuban Revolution
             1. Celia Sanchez   ....More 
             2. History Archive
             3. History Will Absolve Me  (Suggested Reading)
          3. Che Gueverra  ...More   (Suggested Reading)
          4. Bay of Pigs
          5. Cuban Missile Crisis
          6. Race and Cuban Society  ...More  ...More
          7. Noam Chomsky - "How America Determines Friends and Foes"
          8. Relations with U.S. 
       2. Dominican Republic
          1. Rafael Trujillo   
          2. Juan Bosch  ...More
          3. U.S. Invasion  
          4. Foreign and U.S. Relations
       3. Haiti
          1. Francios Duvalier (Papa Doc)
          2. Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc)
          3. Jean Bertrand Aristide
          4. U.S. and Foreign Relations
       4. Jamaica
          1. Michael Manley
          2. Bob Marley
          3. Relations with U.S. 
    6. Asia
       1. People's Republic of China
          1. Mao
             1. Gang of Four
             2. The Great Leap
             3. The Red Book
             4. Cultural Revolution
             5. Relations with U.S.
       2. Phillipines
          1. Ferdinand Marcos
          2. Benigno Aquino
          3. Corazon Aquino
          4. Relations with U.S. 
       3. East Timor
          1. Independence Struggle
          2. Santa Cruz Massacre
          3. Noam Chomsky on U.S. Intervention
          4. Relations with U.S.   ...More.
       4. Indonesia
          1. Soekarno (Sukarno)   ...More ...More
          2. Soeharto (Suharto)
          3. Relations with U.S.
    7. Africa
  • • African Independence Movements (Suggested Reading)
    • The African Union
    1. Algeria
       1. War for Independence
       2. Ben Bella
       3. Frantz Fanon  (Suggested Reading)
       4. Relations with U.S.
    2. Ghana
       • Independence
       • Kwame Nkrumah
       • Relations with U.S.
    3. Belgian Congo   ....More  (Suggested Reading) 
       • Patrice Lumumba  ....More
       • Mobutu  ...More
       • Relations with U.S.
    4. Libya
       • King Idris
       • Muammar Ghaddafi  (Suggested Reading)
       • Relations with U.S.
    5. Kenya
       • Mau Mau Rebellion
       • Jomo Kenyatta 
       • Relations with U.S.

American History (Part VII)

• Civil Rights Movement
  1. 1896-1954, 1955-1968
  2. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  3. Brown v. Board
  4. Emmitt Till, ...More
  5. John F. Kennedy  ...More  (Suggested Reading)
  6. Leaders
     1. Dr. King  ...More  (Suggested Reading) 
        1. I Have a Dream Speech
        2. Dr. King's Speech at Riverside Church
     2. Fannie Lou Hamer
     3. James Farmer
     4. Roy Wilkins
  7. Timeline 
     1. Rosa Parks' Refusal to Move
     2. Sit In Movement ...More
     3. Freedom Rides  ...More
     4. Selma March
     5. Schwerner, Goodman & Chaney 
  8. Major Accomplishments
     1. 1964 Civil Rights Act  
     2. 1965 Voting Rights Act
     3. 1968 Fair Housing Act
  9. FBI & Cointelpro
• Black Power Movement  ...More  (Suggested Reading) 
  1. Leaders
     1. Malcolm X  (Suggested Reading)
     2. Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Toure
     3. Angela Davis  (Suggested Reading)
     4. H. Rap Brown
     5. Assata Shakur  ...More  (Suggested Reading)
  2. Black Panther Party  (Suggested Reading) 
     1. Ten Point Program
     2. The Leaders
  3. Protest at Democratic Natl. Convention
     1. Trial of Chicago Seven ...More 
  4. Woodstock Musical Festival
  5. South Carolina State Massacre
  6. Kent State Massacre
  7. Jackson State Massacre
  8. Attica Prison Uprising
  9. Rise of Motown and R&B ...More
• Vietnam War
  1. Origins   (Suggested Reading)
  2. America's Involvement
  3. Pentagon Papers
  4. Massacre at My Lai
  5. General Westmoreland
  6. Tet Offensive
  7. Opposition to the Conflict
  8. End of Conflict
• 1970's
  1. Richard Nixon Presidency
     1. Vietnam - The Nixon Doctrine
        • Laos
        • Cambodia
          • Khmer Rouge ...More
     2. Nixon Shock
        1. Gold Standard ...More
     3. Watergate
        • Nixon Resigns
        • President Ford Pardons Nixon
     4. Civil Rights and More
  2. African Americans - 60's and 70's
     1. Sports
        1. 1968 Olympic Black Power Salute 
        2. Muhammad Ali  ...More
        • Wilma Rudolph
        • Curt Flood
     2. Entertainment
        • Roots
        • Blaxploitation Films
        • Classic Soul Music  ...More
        • Hip Hop's Early Years

American History (Part VIII)

• Jimmy Carter Presidency
  1. Trilateral Commission ...More
  2. Camp David Accords 
  3. Iran Hostage Crisis  ..More
  4. Civil Rights
• Roe v. Wade
• Affirmative Action ...More
• 1980's
  1. David Duke  ...More
  2. Ronald Reagan Presidency  ...More 
     1. Reaganomics
     2. Granada
     3. Iran / Iraq War
     4. Iran - Contra Affair   (Suggested Reading)
     5. Marcos & the Philippines ...Photo
     6. Supporting Afghanistan ...More
     7. Fall of the Soviet Union
        • Mikhail Gorbachev
        • Solidarity Movement  ...More
     8. Civil Rights (Hutchinson)
  3. Jesse Jackson's Presidential Campaigns
  4. Louis Farrakhan and the NOI
• 1990's
  1. George Bush I
     1. Director of CIA 
     2. Operation Desert Storm  (Suggested Reading)
     3. Panama and the War on Drugs
     4. Civil Rights
  2. Rodney King Beating
  3. O.J Simpson Trial
     1. Johnny Cochoran
     2. Race Relations ...More ...More
  4. Million Man March  ...More
  5. William Jefferson Clinton Presidency  ...More 
     1. Bosnian Wars 
     2. War on Drugs
     3. Prison Indusrty  ...More  ...More
     4. South Africa
        • Apartheid
          • Israel's Relation With South Africa 
          • Gandhi's Racism  ...More 
        • Nelson Mandela
  6. Rap Music Age
• 21st Century
  1. George Bush II
     1. Bush v. Gore
     2. Economic Policy
     3. September 11, 2001 
     4. Foreign Policy
        • Gulf War II 
     5. Domestic Policy
        • Civil Rights (Suggested Reading)
        • Hurricane Katrina ...More ...More
  2. Barack Obama (Suggested Reading) 
     1. Election of   (Suggested Reading) 
        • Primary Campaign
        • General Election 
     2. Cabinet
     3. Health Care  ...More  ...More ...More
     4. Economic Policy
     5. Foreign Policy

America's Domestic Issues of the Day

1. Achievement Gap
2. AMA Study on Race
   1. Dr. Ben Carson  ...More (Suggested Reading)
3. Anti-Racism Movement
   1. Tim Wise   (Suggested Reading)
   2. Peggy McIntosh
   3. Anti-Racist Alliance 
4. Charter Schools   (Suggested Reading)
5. Environmental Movement
6. Gay Marriage
   1. Issues affecting the Black Gay and Lesbian Community
7. Glossary of Political Terms  ...More  ...More
8. Health Disparities
9. Homelessness 
10. Immigration 
    1. Arizona Law
11. Forms of Government   ...More  (Suggested Reading)
12. Legalization of Drugs  (Suggested Reading) 
    1. Just Say No
13. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
14. Prison Industrial Complex
15. Princeton Study On Race and Employment ...More
16. Re-Entry
17. Title IX  ...More
18. War On Drugs
19. War on Ignorance

Global Affairs

1. Darfur  ..More
2. Developing Nations
3. Egyptian Revolution, More 
4. European Union
5. Financial Institutions
   1.  International Monetary Fund (IMF)  ...More ..More
   2.  World Bank  ...More ...More  ..More
   3. World Trade Organization   ...More
   4. General Agreement On Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
   5. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
   6. Central Banks
      1. List of Central Banks By Countries     ...More
      2. Criticism of the Federal Reserve  ,,,More
      3. Money and Banks
6. G8 Nations
7. Global Recession  (Suggested Reading)
8. Global Warming  ...More  ,,,More  (Suggested Reading)
9. Government Intelligence Agencies (list of) ...More  (Suggested Reading)
10. International Organizations
    1. Bilderberger Society   (Suggested Reading)
    2. Council on Foreign Relations  ...More
    3. Trilateral Commission ...More (Suggested Reading)
    4. Royal Institute of International Affairs  ...More
11. International Health Organizations
    1.   World Health Organization (WHO)
    2.   Center for Disease Control (CDC)
12. Major Present Day Military Conflicts
13. Nuclear Proliferation (Suggested Reading)
14. World Regional Organizations
15. Third World Nations
16. Types of Economic Systems (Suggested Reading)
17. United Nations   ....More   
    1. Andrew Young  
    2. Donald McHenry
    3. Susan Rice
    4. Other Ambassadors
18.   U.S. Relations   
    1. Sino-American Relations    
    2. Hamas
    3. Hezbollah
       1. Hassan Nasrallah  
    4. Iran 
       1. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  
    5. Russia  ...More      
    6. North Korea  
19. Venezuela
    1. Hugo Chavez
20. War on Terrorism
21. World Capitals
22. World Leaders
23. World Financial Markets (Dow, Nikkei, etc)
    1. List of World Stock Exchanges