Gr. 6-12

Grosse Pointe Public Schools District Site

Black History Month 2008

Brownstones
1958. Egg tempera on hardboard, 31 1/2 x 37 1/4 in. (80 x 94.9 cm).
Collection of Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries; gift of Chauncey and Catherine Waddell © Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries Artwork © Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation

African American Lives - PBS

Sampling African America Activities

Slavery in America Interactive Links

African American World - PBS

The Margaret Garner Story

Civil Rights	History and Places	Humanities	People	Interactive Activities
Breaking the Color Barrier (grades 6-7)	Aboard the Underground Railroad	African American History Through the Arts	African American History and People	Africana Library
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive	African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian	African American Literature - PBS and the Givens Collection	American Slave Narratives Anthology	Amistad Case: A Mock Trial WebQuest
Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of MLK	African American Experience in Ohio - 1850-1920	African Voices	African Women Writers of the 19th Century	Black Americans History Challenge Online Quiz
Civil Rights Timeline	African American Journey from PBS	Africlassical African Heritage in Music	African Americans in Motion Pictures: Past and Present	Black History Month Treasure Hunt gr.6-8
Detroit: 1943 Race Riot	African American Mosaic from LOC	Art of Jacob Lawrence	Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson	Black History Hotlist for Research
Detroit: First Black Hospital, 1910	African American Odyssey from LOC	Chronology of African American Literature	Black History Groundbreakers	Black Voices - Digital History
Introduction to Human Rights from the U.S. Dept. of State	African-American Pamphlets - LOC	Cry, The Beloved Country CyberGuide (gr. 9/10)	Douglass, Frederick, Abolitionist	History of Jim Crow
King Center	Africans in America Slave Journey (PBS)	Documenting America w/ Gordon Parks	Harris, Elizabeth Johnson (primary documents)	I Will Be Heard: Abolitionism in America
Little Rock Central High	Amistad at Mystic Seaport	Harlem Renaissance Art	HistoryMakers	Jacob Lawrence WebQuests (gr 6-12)
Martin Luther King: Seattle Times	Amistad Research Center	History of Jazz	Hughes, Langston/Modern American Poetry	Little Rock 9, Integration 0 WebQuest
Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights (gr. 7-8)	Culture and Change - Black History in America from Scholastic	Images of African Americans from the 19th Century	James Baldwin Teacher Resource Files	Poetry of Langston Hughes CyberGuide (gr. 9/10)
Montgomery Bus Boycott	Poster for Runaway Slave	Langston Hughes Sites	Negro League Players	Port Chicago Disaster
Powerful Days in Black and White	Poster for Runaway Slave	National Museum of African Art	Notable African Americans	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry CyberGuide (gr. 6)
ScarToons- Racial Satire and the Civil War	Poster for Runaway Slave	Paul Lawrence Dunbar Digital Collection	Profiles of Great African Americans	Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Stand Up for Your Rights	Race and Place	Portraits of Black Americans	Robinson, Jackie (LOC)	Slave Narratives - LOC
The African Presence in the Americas- 1492-1992	Timeline of African American History (LOC)	Quilting Traditions of Black Americans	Scott, Dred (Primary Documents)	Their Eyes Were Watching God CyberGuide (gr. 9/10)
The Two Nations of Black History - PBS	Underground Railroad/ National Geographic	Reel Moments in Black History	Slaves and the Courts	To Be A Slave CyberGuide (gr. 8)
Thurgood Marshall Center	The Virginia Runaways Project	The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords	Valentine, Hannah and Jackson, Lethe (primary documents)	Tuskegee Tragedy WebQuest
Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement (CNN)	Wonders of the African World	Twentieth Century Images of Black Chicago	Young, Coleman A. Portal	Underground Railroad from UC-Davis

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