Celebrate Black History Month
Resources Available on NEA.org and Other Web Sites
February is Black History Month, and to help you celebrate African-American history and culture, we've put together a collection of Web sites that provide educational materials, lesson plans, and other helpful resources.
NEA.org Lessons & Activities
Three-Way Match: Famous Black Americans
Students learn about the accomplishments of famous African American men and women using a unique three-way matching activity.
Unsung Heroes of African-American History
Find two lesson ideas and dozens of online (and on air!) curriculum resources.
Famous African Americans ABC Book
Grades K-12 create an ABC book of famous African Americans in history.
Rosa Parks Changed the Rules
Students complete a diagram of the Montgomery bus that carried Rosa Parks into the history books. Work sheet included.
The Black History Rap
Invite students to write a rap or hip-hop lyrics about the life of a famous Black American.
Build a Black History Database/Timeline
The simple Black History timeline students create can be sequenced, sorted, and searched.
The African-American Population in U.S. History
Charts, graphs, and maps help students learn about the growth of the African-American population throughout history.
Melba Pattillo and Ruby Bridges: Two Heroes of School Integration
Put your students in the shoes of those who integrated Little Rock High School in 1957-58.
MLK Day Curriculum Resources
Teachers will find a collection of curriculum resources to help students put in perspective Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life.
Other Lessons & Activities
Other NEA.org Resources
African-American Booklist
This reading list from NEA's Read Across America presents 100 books that celebrate African-American heritage, tradition, and achievement.
Minority Community Outreach: Blacks
Introduction to NEA's program of outreach to Blacks.
NEA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
In the historic Brown v. Board decision, the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools deprived students of equal educational opportunities. Background information and classroom lessons are featured.
American Teachers Association: Welcome to a History of the American Teachers Association
As early as 1926, NEA and the American Teachers Association (ATA) began working together on issues of educational equity. Four decades later, as racial desegregation advanced in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, ATA and NEA united to create an even greater organization—the modern National Education Association. The presidents of the two organizations signed a merger agreement in 1966.
Other Online Resources
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
African-American Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty
Learn about African Americans' participation in 11 wars from the American Revolution to the Persian Gulf War. An exhibit from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
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.
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.
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.
Updated January 2008
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