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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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