Black History Month
Resources 

 

Outstanding Black History Month Resources

• Black History Month at History.com
• African American Odyssey– showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress
• African American World
• The African American Mosaic– a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
• Africans in America from PBS
• Archives of African American Music and Culture
• The Making of African American Identity
• National Civil Rights Museum
• African American Lives
• Schomburg Center Exhibitions

Black History Month – Biographies, Timelines, Images, …

• Black History Biographies- from Biographies.com
• Black History Biograqphies– from FactMonster.com
• Black History Timeline- from History.com
• Black History Timeline– from InfoPlease.com
• Black History Timeline for Kids
• Black History image collection– from the Library of Congress
• image collection of Black History heroes
• Explore jazz history through a single photo– from Harlem.org
• Powerful days in Black and White– civil rights photography from Charlie Moore
• Marooned: Africans in the Americas 1500 – 1750
• Black History Matters– simply an incredible documentation of African American history covering four centuries
• AfriClassical.com
• Black Baseball’s Negro Baseball Leagues
• Black History Museums List
• The Buffalo Soldier Story
• National Museum of African American History & Culture
• This Week in Black History

Black History Month – Speeches, Letters, Quotes, etc.

• Major Speeches from African American History– from Blackpast.org
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project
• a great mix of Black History quotes with coloring pages and short bios– from Betterworld
• Say it Plain100 years of African American Speeches
• Flashback: The Atlantic Monthly– historic articles from Douglass, DuBois, Washington and others
• Online Books Page a nice collection of African-American civil rights texts
• a mixed collection of Black History quotes– from Quote Garden
• an amazing collection of Black History documents– from BlackPast.org
• historic Black History documents– from Our Black Heritage
• Black History calendar of events
• text of songs from the Underground Railroad
• African American Pamphlets, 1818-1907– from the Library of Congress

Black History Month Video & Audio

• great Black History video collection
• Civi Rights Digital Library– a truly incredible source for Black History audio files
• another collection of Black History video clips– from Biography.com
• Black History audio clips– a large collection
• Black History video collection– from PBS
• Voices from the Days of Slavery

Black History Month on DVD

• Eyes on The Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965
• Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• Passin’ It On – The Black Panthers’ Search for Justice
• A Century of Black Cinema
• 4 Little Girls
• African American Lives
• Free at Last: Civil Rights Heroes
• Dare Not Walk Alone
• Barack Obama: The Power of Change

Black History Month Classroom Activities

• African American History Challenge
• African American World for Kids
• Black History webquest
• Black History online games
• Famous African-American Women Activists quiz
• Black History Online Treasure Hunt
• Black History Trivia Quizzes
• Black History Quotes Quizzes
• Black Herstory Quiz
• multiple Black History Quizzes
• Black History Heroes coloring pages
• a large collection of printables– (registration required)
• Black History word search
• Black History Month coloring pages– (registration required)
• interactive online underground railroad exhibit– from National Geographic
• African American Kulture Kidz Zone
• Gayle’s PreSchool Rainbow

 

Black History Month Lesson Plans

Black History Lesson Plan Collections

• a large collection of Black History Month lesson plans
• large collection of Black History Month lesson plans
• Black history month lesson plans from Glencoe
• collection of assorted black history month lesson plans

Black History Elementary School Lesson Plans

• elementary reading comprehension black history month lesson plan
• Stamp on Black History– elementary Black History Month games, activites, puzzles
• Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
• Black History-Jacob Lawrence’s Style
• Slave Quilts and the Underground Railroad
• The Civil Rights Movement Begins
• Critical Thinking: I Have a Dream Speech
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
• Great Migration Wall Hanging
• Did the Dream Become a Reality?
• What’s in a Quote?
• Exploring the Underground Railroad Through Literature
• Black Poetry in Motion
• Mapping Martin Luther King Jr.
• Write Your Own “I Have a Dream Speech”
• Famous African Americans ABC Book
• Harriet Tubman and the Civil War era
• Rosa Parks mini-unit
• Learning to Respect Each Other
• Annie’s “Martin Luther King Jr. Day” Page
• Classroom Crafts
• Coloring Page
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. WebQuest
• Influencing Others in Our World
• Martin Luther King Chant
• Teacher’s Guide to “Follow the Drinking Gourd”
• Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad
• Martin Luther King Day Activities
• Harriet Tubman & Reading Comprehension
• Martin Luther King and Faith Ringgold- Quilting

Black History Middle & High School Lesson Plans

• Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Leader
• Martin Luther King Jr. Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
• Martin Luther King Day
• Celebrating Martin Luther King Day – Mini Unit
• Famous Black American Biography WebQuest
• Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Power of Nonviolence
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Me: Identifying with a Hero
• Get on Board!
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Evaluating Web Sites for Bias
• Martin Luther King Jr.: A Clothesline Timeline
• Martin Luther King Jr.: A Fact or Opinion Activity
• teaching with documents – Brown vs. Board of Education
• some Black History Month lesson plans from the National Archives
• The Land of Unequal Opportunity: Documenting the civil rights movement in Arkansas

Black History Teacher Guides & Resources

• Smithsonian Black History Teaching Resources
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Teacher Resources
• Black History in Canada teacher resources
• African Studies Outreach K-12 Resources
• Black History Month lesson plan ideas from teachers
• Great Info on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution*
  *Special thanks to Ms. Fox’s class for sharing!