The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute interprets the struggle of African Americans in Birmingham, AL, to secure their civil rights as citizens of the U.S. and members of the community. It also examines human rights issues across the globe.
The institute offers exhibits, a 12-min. film, tours for school groups, and educational and recreational events.
The Boyds Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Boyds, Maryland. To this end, the society operates the Boyds Negro School. This school served the local African American population between 1895 and 1936.
The society offers tours of the Boyds Negro School. The school is open the last Sunday of each month and by appointment. School groups are welcome.
The Old Dillard Museum presents the history of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; the African American experience in Broward County; the Old Dillard community; and jazz. The museum is housed within the 1924 Old Dillard School, a segregated school for African Americans. Artifacts are local, African, Native American, and Caribbean in provenance. Particular attention is given to Julian “Cannonball” Adderly (1928-1975), jazz saxophonist.
The museum offers exhibits, hands-on activities, guided tours, films, lectures, conferences, classes, and workshops.
The Massie Heritage Center, part of the Savannah-Chatham County Public School system, presents the history of Savannah, Georgia and the surrounding area. Particular emphasis is given to architectural history. The center is housed in three Greek Revival structures—one of which was Savannah's first public school, opened to the public in 1856. In 1865, the school was designated as being for African American students only. Today, a portion of the second floor recreates a 19th-century classroom.
The center offers self-guided tours, guided tours, exhibits, 17 educational programs, and the option of creating a custom program for students. Teachers who participate in an educational program receive suggested pre- and post- visit activity listings. Reservations are required for groups of more than 10 who would like a guided tour. The website offers children's activities.
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents the history and culture of African Americans and their points of origin within Africa. It is is the world's largest institution dedicated to the African American experience. The museum boasts over 30,000 artifacts and archives, including major Underground Railroad and Detroit labor movement collections. Permanent exhibits include a historical overview of the African American experience, an interactive alphabet exhibit, and several largescale works of art.
The museum offers exhibits; living history tours; tours led by museum educators; selfguided tours; workshops; films; live performances; lectures; a research library; a summer teacher's institute; and a designated dining area with sandwich, fruit, and beverage vending. Reservations are required for school groups, and the museum offers pizza and soda for an additional fee. The website offers a list of Michigan educational standards which correspond to traveling and permanent exhibits; a Martin Luther King, Jr. activity book; and an Internet treasure hunt.
"The African American Fire Fighter Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, conserving and sharing the heritage of African American firefighters." The museum is located in old Fire Station 30, which has been named a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural site. The museum offers a variety of exhibits on firefighting and firefighting equipment, but focuses on the "Old Stentorians," firefighters who served during the periods of segregation and desegregation.
The site offers historical information regarding firefighting and black firefighters, an online listing of publications, and visitor information.
The U.S. Department of Justice takes another look at the Emmett Till case in which a 14-year-old African-American boy was brutally murdered by two white men in Mississippi.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the outbreak of World War I, industries in the north opened employment to African Americans. They left the south in record numbers for jobs in the north.
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On the eve of the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the intense deliberations that went into two historic Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and the Dred Scot decision of 1857.
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EDSITEment, a website of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is spotlighting classroom materials related to the Public Broadcasting Series (PBS) series, The Presidents.
Materials include lesson plans on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John Kennedy and link these lesson plans to related segments of online video from the series. They highlight major policies and events during each presidency within the context of the era. One lesson plan on Harry Truman, for example, examines origins of the Cold War, then discusses major policies such as the Strategy of Containment.
These lesson plans are directed towards grades 912, but incorporate materials that may be useful for younger students.