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A brief article about opera singer Marian Anderson, the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Billy Strayhorn, jazz composer, in an interview with Stanley Dance.
Distribute a chart that lists many African-American scientist of note.
Sojourner Truth -- American suffrage leader.
African-Americans played a very important role the Civil War, as this article describes. Help your students better…
Ralph Bunche served brilliantly as a professor and diplomat, and made many significant global contributions.
Malcolm X was a contrast to Dr. King, because he took a very different approach to the civil rights movement.
Harriet Tubman's heroic rescue effort brought slaves to freedom.
Shirley Chisholm emerged as an important politician during the 1970s, serving as the nation's first African-American…
Oprah Winfrey is an important public figure in America, having overcome adversity to become a global icon.
Learn more about the life of American Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and orchestra leader, Duke Ellington.
A brief biographical article about Jackie Robinson, the man who broke baseball's color barrier.
Dr. King's work inspired countless supporters to join him in his strategies of nonviolence and passive resistance as…
Rosa Parks defined civil disobedience during the height of the civil rights movement.
Use this lesson to discuss the life of George Washington Carver and ask students to explain why he is an example of a…
Jimi Hendrix was an astonishing musical innovator, whose style has yet to be defined.
Miles Davis was known as the Picasso of jazz.
A great American composer, Ellington's big band music became wildly popular in the 1950s and 1960s.