Black History Month!

Teach your kids relevant information over the struggles of the African American journey.  See Web quests and interactive journeys, Famous people, historical events, poetry, primary sources and more!

Check out the new online tutorials! watch and listen quick 3 min "How to's".........

African American Quiz http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/

Black history Treasure hunt http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html

Abolition primary Source Site http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html

America’s Journey through Slavery http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

Digital history account of Slave auction- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=48

African American Odyssey http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

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A Webquest is a great way to learn the history

WebQuest http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/little_rock/index.html

Tuskegee tragedy Webquest  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/tuskegee_quest.html

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Activities and Events to see:

Underground Railroad web page:  You become a slave and experience the journey to freedom!  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/index.html

Freedom Center- Awesome site for educators and Students- http://www.freedomcenter.org/index2.html

March to Freedom 1965 http://www.msnbc.com/onair/modules/selma.asp?cp1=1

Montgomery Bus Boycott http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec55.html

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Buffalo Soldier history

Henry Parker http://www.buffalosoldier.net/

Female Soldier http://www.buffalosoldier.net/CathayWilliamsFemaleBuffaloSoldierWithDocuments.htm

Overview http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buf1.html

Daily Life http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buf4.html

54^th Mass. Infantry http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/54ma.html

Song by Marley http://www.macnet.or.jp/pa/akira/disco/lyrics/buffalo.html

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Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.mlkonline.net/

I have a Dream http://www.mlkonline.net/dream.html

Fredrick Douglas http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html

African American Icons http://www.history.com/minisites/blackhistory/?page=icons

African Americans You Should Know http://www.black-collegian.com/african/aaprofil.shtml

Sojourner Truth http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/nsotrue.html

Sojourner’s Words http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.html

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Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers"
Rita Dove: "Lady Freedom Among Us"
Maya Angelou: "On the Pulse of the Morning"
Etheridge Knight: "The Idea of Ancestry"
Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance