Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Why No White History Month? It is the month of February again, and I am very excited about the Black History month. As a young African American elementary school teacher, I make sure that I fully take advantage of the Black History month in my lessons with my 5th graders. Yesterday, we were talking about important African American political figures, who made life better for all Americans. During this lesson, one of my students raised her hand and asked why there was no "White History month?" "Were White Americans not as important?" I did not have a good answer to her question. I must be doing something wrong to have a student feel this way. How would you answer this question? Do you think it is problematic to integrate African Americans to all my lessons during February? How can I fix this? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) This question is timely for me right now as I am about to begin an entire Civil Rights unit in my language arts class. How I plan to approach this situation is to preface how many people of different races have been discriminated against in history. In fact, part of my Civil Rights unit focuses on Japanese Americans and Hispanics. However, in the mid-1900s, there was a great movement that brought civil rights to a huge portion of our population--the Civil Rights Movement. As several folks before me have stated, I don't necessarily view the Civil Rights Movement as a race "thing." It's more of a human issue for me. There were several people who were instrumental in bringing some very important changes to our country's laws and way of thinking and that's what I hope my students get out of Black History Month.