Resources for Homeschoolers
Black History Resources
Africa: One Continent, Many Worlds
An online exhibit featuring African stories, American stories, arts, natural history, an atlas of Africa, and more. This site includes interactive games, photographs, video clips, and more; classroom activities are scattered throughout.
A Library of Congress exhibition showcasing their African American document collection.
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the study of Black History and Culture.
Documents from the Library of Congress collection -- searchable, or browse by subject or author.
This resource center includes a Black History quiz, timeline, biographies, activities, literature, and more.
The US Postal Service commemorates Black history through stamps, and includes a Black history tour, a Black history quiz, and a games and activities zone.
Education World's salute to Black History Month includes links for education, as well as activity and lesson ideas.
Trivia games, folktales, biographies, historical documents and events, and more.
A Timeline of African American History
This timeline is in three parts - don't miss the links to the other two pages.
The Internet African American History Challenge
Profiles of some prominent 19th century African Americans, and three interactive quizzes on Black History.
AFRO-Americ@'s Black History Museum
Interactive exhibits covering several pivotal events in Black History.
Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
This site includes six websites geared toward incorporating internet-based instruction in the classroom, using Black History as an instructional theme.
Social Studies School Service: Black History Index
This resource page includes web-based Black history lesson plans, and includes references to relevant print and video resources.
A searchable Black history database; also featuring "This Week in Black History".
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
On enslavement, the Middle Passage, arrival, conditions of life, childhood, family, religion, punishment, resistance, flight, emancipation.
North American Slave Narratives: Beginnings to 1920
A collection of e-texts from "Documenting the American South", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
An online anthology of the personal narratives of former slaves, with text and audio files recorded in the 1930s.
Slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.
Digital History: African American Voices
Articles on slavery, including introductory pages and a topical listing including enslavement, the Middle Passage, family life, religion, flight, and emancipation.
The Black Experience in America
An online book by Norman Coombs which begins with slavery and continues up to modern times.
History, geography, a contemporary journal retracing the route north, and excellent classroom resources.
History, personal narratives, the UG in literature and music, maps, bibliography, and discussion board.
North Star Foundation: Exploring the Underground Railroad
Dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and restoration of safe-houses; lots of info here.
Footsteps to Freedom: Traveling the Underground Railroad
An online history research project for grades 3-7.
An interactive, multimedia presentation from National Geographic, with lots of teaching ideas for various ages, a timeline, maps, portrait gallery, and more.
A photo gallery of influential African Americans of the 20th century.
A full-bodied historical retrospective from Encyclopedia Britannica; includes a study guide. Where else can you hear Langston Hughes reading his own poetry? :-)
The National Civil Rights Museum
A comprehensive overview of the Civil Rights Movement in exhibit form; includes an interactive tour.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott Page
Chronology, lesson plans, biographical sketches, and links for further reading.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life Tribute
A tribute from the archives of Life Magazine, with links to Black in America and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project.
A teacher's guide to Martin Luther King resources all over the web; highly recommended.
Guidelines for Observing Martin Luther King Day
Guidelines from the King Center.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Profiles of African-American scientists and mathematicians.
A memorial website devoted to the Buffalo Soldier and the Black sailor in historical perspective.
A huge link site featuring a comprehensive look at African Americans in the military through history.
BlackBaseball's Negro Baseball Leagues
An informational and entertaining look at the Negro Baseball Leagues, with material garnered from the director of research at the Negro Baseball Leagues Museum.
A timeline of the evolution of Black music from its slave roots to the present.
Powerful African-American Images Revealed in Picture Books
A two-part listing of recommended books for young children.
