African-American History Web Sites
Celebrating African-American History and Culture
by NEA Staff
To help you integrate African-American studies into your lesson plans, we've put together a collection of Web sites where you and your students can discover the rich history of African-American culture and the individuals who played significant roles in American history.
Black History Month (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia's entry on the Black History Month provides information on the history and purpose of the holiday and how it was created. Links to other, related Web sites may prove a useful resource.
Black History Month (The History Channel)
The history of the Civil Rights struggle plus more than 60 biographies of African Americans are featured on The History Channel Web site. Video clips, speeches and related exhibits can be used in the classroom use.
African Americans (FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
Sixty-six resources including historic places of the Civil Rights Movement, documenting the American South, African American history resources, and North American slave narratives.
The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
"A Library of Congess Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture," this site covers colonization, abolition, migration, and the WPA.
African American Lives (PBS)
Building on the program theme of searching for lost history, the Web site for African-American Lives 2 provides information about the PBS television series, background on the research, scholarship, and science, and resources for people to learn more about their own family history and genealogy.
African American World (PBS)
Explore the history and culture of African Americans and browse through educational resources, including lesson plans for grades 3-12.
African American World for Kids (PBS)
This Web site for young children explores African American history with games (match African American heroes with the events that made them famous), e-cards (choose from among 14 e-cards kids can send to their friends and family with information and facts about African American history), and "Kid Talk," where kids aged 8-11 share their thoughts on African American history.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving, and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship (Library of Congress)
This exhibition showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. It displays more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings.
Slavery in America
The PBS series Slavery and the Making of America premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service in February 2004. It drew very strong audiences across America, and reviews were very positive. The series is part of a broader educational initiative that includes this Web site. See the Web site for more information on the four one-hour programs of this series.
Legends of Tuskegee
This online exhibit highlights Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and the Tuskegee Airmen and their affiliation with the Tuskegee Institute, site of African-American achievements for more than 100 years.
Updated January 2010
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