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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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Yale University

Avalon Project: African Americans Biography, Autobiography and History

For Students 9th - 10th
Five primary source materials on African American history: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr., My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Up From...
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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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San Francisco Unified School District: Teaching #Blacklivesmatter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A library research guide with a huge collection of links to articles, lesson plans, readings, poetry, and official documents. They explore the experiences of African Americans and the evolution and purpose of the Black Lives Matter...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery and the Making of America: Slave Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
What religions did slaves bring from Africa to America? This PBS series site provides the historical overview of how early African Americans preserved African spiritual beliefs and practices while enslaved, converted to Christianity, and...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: A Raisin in the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features discussion questions to go along with each scene of the play "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry. Learners will gain a broader perspective of Hansberry's work when they visit this site.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: An Overview of the African American Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson with article and questions for discussion on the experience of African-Americans beginning with the slave trade.
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Indiana University

Archives of African American Music and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains resources on black culture and music from the early 1900s to the present.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses recordings, documents, and photographs to tell the story behind the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", by Zora Neale Hurston.