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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Forward, Making of African American Identity: V. 2, 1865 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixteen texts-historical documents, literary texts, visual images, audio, and video material-that explore the political, social, and cultural state of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: V. 1, 1500 1865

For Students 9th - 10th
One hundred and sixty primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the conditions of slavery, the search for identity, the development of a sense of community while enslaved, and the struggles for...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Identity, Making of African American Identity: V. 1, 1500 1865

For Students 9th - 10th
Forty seven primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the issues facing African Americans as they struggled to carve out identity, work, artistic expression, and citizenship rights.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Free Born

For Students 9th - 10th
A journal, an autobiography, and selections from narratives about the conditions experienced by free-born African Americans in the nineteenth century. They ask such questions as: How did African Americans construct identity in antebellum...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Freedom, Making of African American Identity: V. 2, 1865 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and audio material-that explore African American perceptions of freedom from Emancipation to the early-twentieth century.
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Unit Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: African Immigration: Africans in America: Life in a Slave Society

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent overview of the African American experience in America beginning with West Africa during the slave trade, through emancipation and reconstruction, to "New beginnings."
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: African American Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
An online version of the exhibit, "The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship", on the struggle of African Americans from Slavery to Civil Rights. Information about voting issues can be found under Reconstruction and the...
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson from the Library of Congress on "the era of legal segregation in America, from Plessy v. Ferguson (1897) to Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954)."
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Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Racial Uplift Ideology in the Era of "The Negro Problem"

For Students 9th - 10th
History professor Kevin Gaines explores the idea that educated blacks are responsible for the welfare of the majority of the race and how the uplift ideology undermined collective social advancement.
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Negro Holocaust, 1880 1950

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on the lynching of African Americans, what it was, why it happened and how frequently it happened. It also outlines race riots in the first part of the 20th century as well as discussion on the black...
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Article
New York Public Library

African American Migration Experience: The Northern Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the reasons African Americans left the South and migrated north both before and after the Civil War, and many aspects of what their lives were like.
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Primary
Duke University

Conscience of a Nation: John Hope Franklin on African American History

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition on African-American history that is inspired by the work of John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), an African-American scholar who studied the historical roots of racial prejudice. The exhibit presents primary documents, texts,...
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Website
Other

Massachusetts Studies Project: African Americans in Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
The full title of this page is "African Americans in Massachusetts: Case Studies of Desegregation in 19th Century Nantucket and Boston." It features a timeline that covers the mid-19th century cases in Nantucket and Boston concerning the...
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Primary
University of Virginia

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: African American Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source materials on African American history. Much of it is about slavery and racism. There are many slave narratives here, letters, essays, and biographical materials, and some of the names are well known ones,...
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eBook
PBS

Pbs: African American Migration Story: Many Rivers to Cross

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed presentation illustrating the history of Africans migrating to the Americas from as early as 1500 through the late 1860's. Review the distribution of Africans in North and South America, the initial settlements, escaped and...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Black Wings

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource to celebrate early black American aviators. Students will find thrilling tales of true courage concerning black Americans and the "Quest for Equal Opportunity."
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Website
A&E Television

History.com: Black History Milestones

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed account of the history of African Americans is presented in this article. Divided by main topics or periods of time, the coming of slavery to America is the first focus. Followed by plantation life and escapes to freedom and...
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Handout
University of North Carolina

Unc: History of the Negro Church: Electronic Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is quite unique, in that it compiles historical data in a segmented form of the birth and evolution of Black Christianity in America. Carter G. Woodson, one of the most respected names relative to the anthology of the Negro,...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: African American Perspectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Library of Congress collection of books, pamphlets, and photographs that are tied together for a special presentation "The Progress of a People." Proceed through the three sessions: Segregation and Violence, Solving the Race Problem, and...
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Activity
Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners' Museum: Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about how Africans and their descendents have shaped the history, culture, and economy of the Chesapeake Bay Region.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: African American Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents the collections of the Library of Congress that showcase the experiences of African-Americans.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Nat'l Portrait Gallery: Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition by National Portrait Gallery titled "Let Your Motto Be Resistance" presents photographs documenting notable African Americans and their contributions to American culture. The gallery of portraits offers an impressive...
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Black Past Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse this informative site to learn about six centuries of African American history. Contains an online encyclopedia of biographies, primary documents, major speeches, timelines, events, and much more. Very extensive!
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Africans in America

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS offers a four-part series on the plight of African Americans from slave days to the end of the Civil War. Resources such as interactive maps, a Resource Bank, and Teacher's Guide are available.