University of Virginia
University of Virginia: The Negro in the Regular Army
This etext contains the history of the Philippine-American War. In this passage by Oswald Garrison Villard you will read about African Americans who fought in the War.
Other
The History Makers
Thehistorymakers.com features the stories of African Americans who have succeeded and made achievements in the areas of art, business, education, law, politics, science, religion, and sports. There is a great timeline of African American...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: African Native American Lives
A fascinating exhibition on the history of Americans of both African American and Native American ancestry. The exhibit looks at policies and laws that affected them, how they have formed and managed communities, their resistance...
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: Buffalo Soldiers
Immerse in the campfire stories of the people who defined Texas. Read about buffalo soldiers, whether on horseback or on foot, they fought the same enemy every day.
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San Francisco Unified School District: Teaching #Blacklivesmatter
A library research guide with a huge collection of links to articles, lesson plans, readings, poetry, and official documents. They explore the experiences of African Americans and the evolution and purpose of the Black Lives Matter...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African American History and Culture
This Smithsonian museum is dedicated to the preservation of African American culture. Includes a portrait gallery, profiles of African American artists, exhibitions devoted to the struggle for civil rights, historical photographs and...
South Carolina Educational Television
South Carolina Etv Commission: Celebrate Freedom: Tuskegee Airmen
A multimedia experience about the Tuskegee Airmen, an all African American flying squadron established in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1941. This exhibit celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the struggles and accomplishments of this group of...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dream in Color, African American Heritage
Discover the African American Culture and share the information through these lessons with your students. Choose from several different lesson plans and grade levels to help students learn about the African American Culture.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: This House Told a Story About the African American Experience
A historical home acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture has quite a story to tell.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Civil Rights Movement
Learning module with multi-media resources, including interactive timeline, video, photos and articles, from which students can explore the current Black Lives Matter movement and make connections to activism of the past and the role of...
Other
Letter From Birminghham Jail [Pdf]
This letter shares Martin Luther King's reflections about his involvement in peaceful demonstrations. The letter provides historical information about the plight of African Americans throughout history and why he and others are so...
Black Past
Black Past: Black Past Resources
Browse this informative site to learn about six centuries of African American history. Contains an online encyclopedia of biographies, primary documents, major speeches, timelines, events, and much more. Very extensive!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
This collection uses primary sources to explore Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Negro League Baseball
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Negro League Baseball.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Fifteenth Amendment
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Fifteenth Amendment.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: African American Newspapers: Freedom's Journal
Digitized collection of the first newspaper owned and produced by African-Americans (1827-1829).
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America
This collection uses primary sources to explore blackface minstrelsy in modern America.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Beyond Busing: School Desegregation in Boston
This collection uses primary sources to explore school desegregation in Boston.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Black Power Movement
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Black Power Movement.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fannie Lou Hamer Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Fannie Lou Hamer and the civil rights movement in rural Mississippi.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston
Examine Zora Neale Hurston's lifelong commitment to African American literature and cultural preservation.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Race as Community, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
Articles illustrating how African Americans defined community according to perceptions of race. Links are provided to these works by George Schuyler, Langston Hughes, E. Franklin Frazier.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Making of African American Identity: Volume Ii 1865 1917
Uses primary resources-historical documents, literary texts, visual images, audio, and video material-to explore how African Americans created group and individual identities in the late-nineteenth century. Topics include freedom,...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Picturing Nonviolence or Nonexistence [Pdf]
This lesson plan teaches students about Dr. King's philosophy of nonviolence. This is a PDF document.