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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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Unit Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: From Slavery to Civil Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive timeline lets students select an era in the history of blacks in United States. Text tells the highlights of the time and primary source materials are linked that pertain as well.
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: The Civil Rights Movement Moves North

For Students 9th - 10th
Summers of the late 1960s was a time of widespread violence and rioting in the nation's major inner cities. What was previously thought of as a problem of the South had spread nation-wide and was now demanding immediate attention.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Our African American Heroes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners will create a short digital slideshow presentation and brochure on a famous black American.
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Primary
Thurgood Marshall Website

Thurgood Marshall: The Bicentennial Speech: Remarks of Thurgood Marshall

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of Thurgood Marshall's Bicentennial Speech given in 1987, in which Marshall pointed out the inadequacies of the U.S. Constitution in addressing civil rights and liberties.