Updated on March 9, 2017
Here are more than a dozen interactive, multimedia websites on African American history – culture, timelines, art, ideas, themes and biographies. Lots of useful resources for Black History Month, and some include lesson ideas for teachers.
Finishing the Dream: Learning from the Civil Rights Era offers videos from NBC news stories about the Civil Rights movement from 1954 – 1968, as well as interviews with significant figures in the movement about progress made since then.
Black History Month reflects on, celebrates and honors the African-American experience from the times of slavery through the present day. Everywhere you look, black culture, talent, and expression have played an enormous role in shaping Americas past and present. Read…
Separate Is Not Equal – Brown v. Board of Education is a special exhibit and educational materials marking the 50th anniversary of this turning point in American history. The educational materials include an annotated bibliography with links to related resources…
From site: The events of the Civil Rights Movement are forever etched into our minds. AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America’s struggle…
The National Park Service invites you to meet some of the people and visit some of the historic places where African Americans have shaped our nation. For teachers, there are lesson plans to enliven classroom discussions.
From site: The History of Black Economic Empowerment. This year’s theme recognizes the enterprise and entrepeneurship of African Americans, both past and present, that helped strengthen and invigorate the nation.Put the power of primary sources to work in the classroom.…
From site: African American soldiers of the 24th Infantry and 9th Cavalry protected the National Parks of California at the turn of the last century. Their contributions have been either forgotten or ignored. The prevailing view of American history is…
From site: In 1787, at a time when slavery was crucial to the prosperity and expansion of New York, the New York African Free School was created by the New York Manumission Society, a group dedicated to advocating for African Americans.…
From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History provides a short interactive timeline of key events, along with resources for teachers. Resources targeted to grades 5-12.
From site: The centerpiece of the NMAAHC Museum on the Web are the collected reminiscences of ordinary Americans. These stories, called “memories” are collected as text, images, and audio uploads in the virtual Memory Book where website visitors are encouraged…
From site: Slavery, according to historian and sociologist Orlando Patterson, was social death. This was especially so of the slavery practiced in the United States from its very founding as a colonial empire in 1609, to 1865, when ended the…
From site: The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and…
Get a broad overview of African American culture and history with the video portraits and images on this site. Learn more about Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Jimi Hendrix, Oprah Winfrey, and many more.
From site: SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing…
Black Wings tells the story of how one group of Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break into aviation. African Americans shared the universal dream of flight. But for almost 50 years after the Wright brothers historic flight in 1903, racial…