African American History Month Learning Resources
How the cotton gin revolutionized the use of slaves and the production of cotton in the Southern United States. [...] »
Slavery, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement—you have to teach these topics, so check out these essays to enrich your curriculum! [...] »
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern Civil Rights Movement and its antecedent movements were efforts to challenge and eliminate racism. [...] »
Baseball might be America's favorite past time, but it has not always been inclusive. Can you answer these questions about African American ball players? [...] »
Read the books and poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, internationally famous African American writer. [...] »
African Americans and Native Americans have had a long and complex relationship, often characterized by their similar exclusion from the fruits of freedom envisioned during the American Revolution. [...] »
Learn about race in the Progressive Era through the life of Jack Johnson, the original African American Heavy Weight Champion of the World. [...] »
This site contains sources covering and reacting to the deplorable 1898 massacre in Wilmington, NC. [...] »
Leading up to the civil rights movement in a high school class? Explore 700 primary sources that examine one 1920 case of fatal racism. [...] »
