African American History Month Teaching Resources
How do factors such as race and ethnicity shape young peoples’ perspectives the history of race relations? [...] »
Slave badges were used in Charleston to keep track of slaves. Can you build a lesson for 4th graders around them? [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S. Senator, Harry F. Byrd, Sr., in 1956. [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white Union soldiers and a Confederate soldier. [...] »
Anthony Pellegrino explores the history of one segregated school, and complicates his understanding of a traditional textbook narrative. [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of Education. [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to teach? [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial identity. [...] »
Examine the role of African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. [...] »
