AFRICAN-AMERICAN AWARENESS PATCH

Purpose: To enhance the awareness of African-American history and culture.

Brownie Girl Scouts: Complete six requirements, including the three starred.
Junior Girl Scouts: Complete eight requirements, including the three starred.
Cadette/Senior Girl Scouts: Complete ten requirements, including the three starred.

African-American Awareness patches are available for purchase at the Council Shop.

1. * Use your local travel agent, the library, and Girl Scouts of the USA resources to explore a country in Africa. Find out about its people, holidays, foods, customs, and dress. Do they have Girl Scouts or Girl Guides?

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Many Africans were brought to the West Indies during the slave trade. Explore an island in the West Indies. Find out about its people, holidays, foods, customs, and dress. Do they have Girl Scouts or Girl Guides?

2. * Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights leader. When was his actual birth-date and when do we celebrate his birthday? List some of the contributions he made to history. In what way could you celebrate his birthday?

3. Make a collage, drawing or diorama showing multi-cultural people living in peace with each other.

4. The march on Washington took place in August, 1963. What was its purpose and what did it accomplish?

5. Listen to jazz, calypso, and gospel music. Where did they originate?

6. With others, make up a rhyme or song about something that happened at your troop/group meeting or camp. Share your musical creation with a younger troop/group, parents or senior citizens.

7. * Interview someone who has knowledge about African-American history. This person could be a celebrity such as an actor, actress, dancer or storyteller.

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Attend an African-American cultural program such as a play, library exhibit or concert.

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Read a book about African-American history. Discuss the story with your troop/group.

8. Make up a game or use your resources to help younger children learn about African-American history.

9. Collect pictures and/or stories from newspapers and magazines about apartheid in South Africa. What is apartheid? Discuss apartheid with your troop/group.

10. What black South African leader won a Nobel prize? Find out what he did.

11. Cook a dish of African origin and share it with others.

12. Find out about an African-American service organization in your community and invite a representative to your troop/group meeting.

13. Pick ten people from the following list. For what are/were they noted? Phyllis Wheatley, Rosa Parks, Marian Anderson, Shirley Chisholm, Lorraine Hansberry, Madam C. J. Walker, Mother Hale, Bessie Coleman, Wilma Rudolph, Ida B. Wells, Katherine Dunham, Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mae Jameson.

14. The Underground Railroad was started by whom? What was the name given to those who were against slavery?

15. Who is Cassius Clay? What did he do three times? What obstacles did he have to overcome? List nine other African American athletes and their sports.

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