Selected Resources 

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The Library of Congress

• Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort

• Frederick Douglass: Online Resources

• The Harlem Renaissance

• Idea Book for Educators (in cooperation with the History Channel and Newman's Own Foundation) (PDF,21.5Mb) 

• Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter virtual student workshop

• Slavery Resource Guide

National Archives

• African American Soldiers and Civil Rights During WWI 

• Analyzing a Letter to Congress About Bloody Sunday 

• Analyzing Jackie Robinson's White House Letter 

• Analyzing a Letter from Jackie Robinson: "Fair Play and Justice" 

• Analyzing a Photograph of Jackie Robinson 

• Black Soldiers in the Civil War 

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 

• Comparing Civil War Recruitment Posters 

• Confronting Work Place Discrimination on the World War II Home Front 

• The Emancipation Proclamation Commemorative Coloring Book

• Examining Rosa Parks's Arrest Record 

• Examining Where Rosa Parks Sat 

• From Dred Scott to the Civil Rights Act of 1875: Eighteen Years of Change 

• How Effective were the Efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau? 

• The Impact of Bloody Sunday in Selma 

• Integration of the U.S. Armed Forces 

• Letter to President Abraham Lincoln from Annie Davis 

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Fight for Civil Rights 

• The Meaning and Making of Emancipation eBook

• Oh Freedom! Sought Under the Fugitive Slave Act 

• Responding to the Murder of Harry T. Moore 

• Documents relating the 1921 Tulsa Massacre:
      -- Report About the Tulsa Massacre by Maurice Willows, 12/31/1921
      -- Photo Album of the Tulsa Massacre and Aftermath, 1921
      -- Tulsa Tribune Articles about the Tulsa Massacre, 6/5/1921
      -- Additional documents on this topic 

• Twelve Years a Slave 

• U.S. v. Amistad: A Case of Jurisdiction 

• We Shall Overcome: March on Washington 

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National Endowment for the Humanities

• After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North

• August Wilson's Blues Poetry

• The Black Archives of Mid-America

• Colored Conventions Project (in cooperation with the University of Delaware) 

• The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement

• Frederick Douglass's “Narrative:” Myth of the Happy Slave

• From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography

• Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women

• The Green Book: African American Experiences of Travel and Place in the U.S

• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

• Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask

• JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement

• Malcolm X: A Radical Vision for Civil Rights

• Mapping Prejudice  (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)

• Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington

• The Music of African American History

• Music of the Harlem Renaissance

• NEH Landmarks of American History & Culture, "African Americans and the Making of Early New England" 

• "A Raisin in the Sun": Whose American Dream?

• The Right to Love: The Case of Loving v. Virginia

• Slavery in the Colonial North

• Solomon Northup's “Twelve Years a Slave” and the Slave Narrative Tradition

• “Stony the Road: Exploring Alabama's Civil Rights Legacy” K12 Teacher Lesson Plans (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) 

• Teacher's Guide: African American History in the United States

• Teacher's Guide: Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman

• Teacher's Guide: The Reconstruction Era

• Teacher's Guide: The Works of Langston Hughes

• Their Eyes Were Watching God: Folk Speech and Figurative Language

• Toni Morrison's Beloved: For Sixty Million and More

• Twelve Years a Slave: Analyzing Slave Narratives

• Visualizing Emancipation

• W.E.B. DuBois Papers

National Gallery of Art

• Browse online materials (PDFs, interactive lesson plans, and podcasts) and borrow free-loan resources (teaching packets, DVDs/VHS) on African American art and artists at NGA Learning Resources.

• The Art of Romare Bearden (Teaching Packet)

• The First African American Regiment (Grades: 5–8)

• Gordon Parks Photography

• In Memoriam: Honoring Heroes & Heroines through Sculpture (Grades 5–8)

• The Shaw Memorial (Teaching Packet)

• Uncovering America: Harlem Renaissance

National Park Service

• Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

• Civil Rights and Racial Healing Feature

• African American History

• Discover the Jackie Robinson Ballpark Lightning Lesson

• Discover the Mary Ann Shadd Cary House Lightning Lesson

• Discover Colonel Young's Protest Ride for Equality and Country Lightning Lesson

• Discover the African Burial Ground National Monument Lightning Lesson

Smithsonian Institution

• Digital learning resources from the National Museum of African American History and Culture