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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Tales About Asia and Africa by Peter Parley

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Tales about Asia and Africa by Peter Parley (1861), a collection of nonfiction stories about travels to Asia and Africa.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Beasts and Birds of Africa by American Tract Society

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Beasts and Birds of Africa by American Tract Society (1884), an illustrated, nonfiction book about the birds and animals in Africa.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Ivory Trader: A Tale of Africa by William h.g. Kingston

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Ivory Trader: A Tale of Africa by William H.G. Kingston (c1875), a children's novel about Africa.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Africa, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs and an address that illustrate the role Africa played in black identity in the late-nineteenth century. This article compares Rev. Henry McNeal Turner's "back to Africa" campaign with the Exoduster migration to Kansas led by...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Story of Exploration and Adventure in Africa

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of The Story of Exploration and Adventure in Africa by Prescott Holmes, a nonfiction for children.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Reynard the Fox in South Africa by w.h.i. Bleek

For Students 2nd - 3rd
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or, Hottentot Fables and Tales by W.H.I Bleek (1864), a collection of fables.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through Africa by T. Knox

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through Africa by Thomas W. Knox (1884), an illustrated children's novel.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Tales of Peter Parley About Africa

For Students 5th - 7th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Tales of Peter Parley about Africa by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, a nonfiction book for children.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Nkrumah

For Students 9th - 10th
Kwame Nkrumah, a former leader in Ghana, writes his concept of a freedom in Africa following years of European rule on the continent.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Horn of Africa Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents related to the conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s (also known as the 1977-1978 Ogaden War or the Ethiopian-Somali Conflict).
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Council of Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations: Obama's Food Security Initiative in Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
This interview with Laurie Garret, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations examins the Obama Administration's initiative to boost spending on food aid to African nations in addition to changing rules on how...
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Copies of the work by David Livingstone that can be downloaded at this site from the University of Pennsylvania. No additional information is given. Both text and zip files are available.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Robert F. Kennedy: Day of Affirmation at Cape Town University

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the audio mp3 and text of Robert F. Kennedy's speech on June, 6, 1966 on the occasion of Affirmation day for South Africa.
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Other

Swarthmore College: Nationalism and Its Discontents

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of all the congresses and conventions and their declarations that took place in Africa as well as a commentary on the destruction of African culture.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Rise of Our East African Empire, 1893

For Students 9th - 10th
This Fordham University site offers a primary source from a British Captain stating the argument for British imperialism of East Africa.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Wilson Center: South African Nuclear History

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand South African nuclear policy through this digital document collection that spans over twenty-five years. Collection provides information about how it started with obtaining uranium supplies under the United States-South Africa...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The American Negro and His Fatherland

For Students 9th - 10th
Read excerpts from this speech given by Re.v. Henry McNeal Turner, a bishop in the AME church, who, by the late 1890s, supported the Back to Africa movement and felt that African Americans would have a better life in Africa.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Islamic Manuscripts From Mali

For Students 9th - 10th
Library of Congress site features 32 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic from Timbukti, Mali, and West Africa.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Her Head

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose, five-stanza piece, the poet describes her amazement of a woman who is carrying water on her head in Natal, South Africa.
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Other

Clarity Connect: African Folktales

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Links more than a hundred African folktales from Nigeria, South Africa, Zulu, West Africa, and more.
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Other

Biko Speaks on Africans

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay written and delivered by Stephen Biko on the state of blacks in South Africa. This is a good way to understand what Biko wanted to accomplish during his life.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Religion & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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PBS

Pbs Africans in America: Forten Letter to Cuffe

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about James Forten's opposition to Paul Cuffe's American Colonization Society, which sought to recruit African-Americans to emigrate to Africa in the early 19th century. In addition, this site provides a link to the text of Forten's...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Program of the Pan German League, 1890 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook offers a primary source record of a German imperialist organization's reasons to imperialize.

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