BOOK GUIDES
Promote thoughtful discussion about race, heritage, and women's history with this printable discussion guide to Flygirl.…
TEACHING RESOURCE
Even after the abolition of slavery, Jim Crow laws restricted the freedom of African-Americans.
Learn about the horrendous conditions aboard the slave ships that carried Africans to America.
The civil rights movement was mobilized in the 1950s, attempting to close the racial divide.
Discover how the NAACP was established.
Learn about the role religion plays in the African-American community.
REFERENCE
African-American filmmakers pushed the envelope by using their movies as a social and political commentary on American…
Learn about Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award.
A list of assassinations and attempts in U.S. since 1865.
The text of the Emancipation Proclamation.
An article discussing the history of African-Americans in the NHL.
An article explaining Mason and Dixon's Line.
Learn about the life of Condoleezza Rice, who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 2005-2009.
Learn more about the life of Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of television's premier journalists.
A brief article about Alice Walker.
An article about Harriet Tubman.
The text of Sojourner Truth's speech, which was given at a Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
An article about abolitionist Sojourner Truth.
A brief article about Clarence Thomas.
A brief article about Hiram Revels, the first African American member of the U.S. Senate.
An article about Sweet Honey in the Rock's founder, Bernice Johnson Reagon.
A brief article about Ralph Johnson Bunche, the first African American to win a Nobel Prize.
A brief article about abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
A brief article about Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
