books and digital RESOURCES

The adopted textbook for this course is HMH African American History  by Lisbeth Gant-Britton. The text is available as a consumable softcover and online through CCS Classlink.

EVERFI offers free module-based digital courses for students. EVERFI is available through CCS Classlink. 

• 306 - Introduces high school students to stories of strength, resilience, and leadership from the African-American community throughout history

• 306: Continuing the Story - Examine some of the lesser known stories of struggle and empowerment. The themes here help uncover threads running from the Civil Rights era to today, and the ever-changing landscape of the movement toward equity in America.

The book titles below include adolescent nonfiction and historical monographs, provided free through INFOhio. The links are generated from a permalink in INFOhio/EBSCO, and may take some time to load. If you are encountering problems accessing the books from the links, try opening the INFOhio site first. If you assign books to students, be sure to use the permalink (not the URL at the top of bar) or assign via Google Classroom. You can also search for additional relevant titles from the EBSCO eBooks Collection homepage. 

• The African American Experience, by Sandy Donovan

• Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History, by Joel Christian Gill

• Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History, by Joel Christian Gill

• Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America, by Douglas R. Egerton

• The Impact of Slavery in America, by Duchess Harris and Gail Radley

• This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South, by Michael M. Greenburg

• African Americans in the Civil War, by Kari A. Cornell

• Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, by Kevin M. Levin

• Reconstructing the South, by Duchess Harris and Nel Yomtov

• Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery, by Joseph P. Reidy

• Unjustly Dishonored: An African American Division in World War I, by Robert H. Ferrell

• Harlem Hellfighters, by Shannon Baker

• The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, by Sabina G. Arora

• African American Art: The Long Struggle by Crystal Britton

• Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities by Stephanie Stein Crease

• The African American Experience During World War II, by Neil A. Wynn

• Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II, by Cheryl Mullenbach

• Tuskegee Airmen, by Christine Zuchora-Walske

• African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement, by Vincent J. Intondi

• Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League, by Douglas M. Branson

• Sitting In, Standing Up: Leaders of the Civil Rights Era, by Diane C. Taylor

• Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell

• The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, by Jon N. Hale

• Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington, by Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long

• Changing Laws: Politics of the Civil Rights Era, by Judy Dodge Cummings

• Black Lives Matter: Grassroots Movement to Global Phenomenon, by Stuart A. Kallen