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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Michael S. Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Michael S. Harper, an African-American poet whose sensitive, personal verse is concerned with ancestral kinship, jazz and the blues, and the separation of the races in America.
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Website
National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Ella Baker

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Women's Hall of Fame honors Ella Baker for her role in the Civil Rights Movement in America.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Collection of Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This collection presents in-depth lesson plans on American history from the 18th century to the present. Lessons include African American history, women's history, Native American history and many other topics.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Spirit of Nationalism: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Phillis Wheatley, an African-American slave, is featured for her neoclassical poetry of pre-nineteenth century America. Click on "Phillis Wheatley Activities" for more resources.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Living the Revolution: 1789 1820: Equality

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source documents on equality provides a look into various perspectives surrounding the discussion on rights for slaves, African Americans, women and equality in general between 1789-1920. Includes questions for discussion,...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Americans and the Great War 1914 1919: A New Home Front

For Students 11th - 12th
World War I changed the configuration of the workforce and organized labor took the opportunity to strengthen its power base. This section looks at the impact of these changes on women and African Americans, as well as how the women's...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: West Africa and the Role of Slavery

For Students 11th - 12th
This section of a chapter on "The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492" takes a look at the major West African empires and discusses the roles of Islam and Europe in the slave trade.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal: The Quest for Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger piece on Segregated America, this section focus is on the commitment and perseverance of African Americans in the post-Civil War South to overcome the obstacles standing in the way of an education. Offers teachers and...
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Website
The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915 to 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source material with lesson and classroom activities in which students analyze the causes and effects of the African American Great Migration to Chicago between 1915 and 1950.
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Photographs of the 369th Infantry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Background information on the African American troops in the 369th Infantry accompanied by teaching activities that allows students to analyze photographs and use the information in many curricular connections.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Columbian Exchange

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations that tell the story of the Spanish explorers who arrived in the Americas with Columbus and introduced European, African, and Asian plants and...
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Primary
Other

Virtual Jamestown: Laws on Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the original text of Virginia colonial laws concerning different aspects of slavery for Africans, Native Americans, and indentured servants.
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Website
Other

American Sport Art Museum and Archives: Ernie Barnes

For Students 9th - 10th
Ernie Barnes was named Sports Artist of the Year in both 1984 and 2004. The site includes a biographical sketch, commentary on Barnes's style and inspiration, and information about his most significant and influential works.
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Website
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Three Worlds, Three Views

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay examining the cultural and environmental changes spanning 300 years in the pre-Revolutionary South as three worlds, Native American, European, and African collide. Site includes guiding questions for student discussion and scholars...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Foreign Policy 1890 1914: Spanish American War and Overseas Empire

For Students 11th - 12th
Looks at the development and evolution of the Spanish-American War, at Americans' views on imperialism at the end of this war, and at the relationship of this war with America's other international interests.
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Handout
CNN

Cnn: Covers the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of the early and modern Civil Rights Movement. This is a good overview to begin your study of the fight for civil rights in America.
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Handout
George Washington University

Communitarian Network: The Monochrome Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion about the shift in demographic numbers that has been predicted: the end of the white majority in the United States and a majority of minorities.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Black Segregation Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This article features short, interesting facts in a historical timeline format on black segregation in America in the years before the Civil War up to the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1900s.
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Ashe, Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
In this short encyclopedia entry, you can read about Arthur Ashe, professional black champion. There are links to other websites for more information.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo Attributed to Juan Rodriguez

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mestizo belongs to a larger series of works that seek to document the inter-ethnic mixing occurring in New Spain among Europeans, indigenous peoples, Africans, and the existing mixed-race population. This genre of painting is known...
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Roberto (Walker) Clemente

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief encyclopedia entry gives an overview of Roberto Clemente's outstanding career in baseball as well as his humanitarian efforts in Latin America.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brown, View of the Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

For Students 9th - 10th
The falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Grafton Tyler Brown depicts the Grand Canyon, the one found at Yellowstone in Wyoming. Grafton Brown was one of the first African-American artists to depict scenes of the West. View...
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Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Settlers, Slaves and Servants

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a brief overview of how many settlers in the colonies were indentured servants and how the system of indentured servitude tied to slavery.
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PPT
Made From Media

Made From History: 18 Key Figures From the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of images showcases people who played pivotal roles in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.