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African-American Heritage

Africa: K-12 TLC Guide The United States: K-12 TLC Guide

Civil Right/Human Rights: K-12 TLC Guide Racism/Racial Discrimination: K-12 TLC Guide

Cultural Diversity/Multicultural Education: K-12 TLC Guide

Famous African Americans, African American Poets
Genealogy, Health, Media

African Immigrants

Juneteenth, Kwanzaa

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

History
BLACK HISTORY MONTH

African-
American Heritage

African Methodist Episcopal Church: K-12 TLC Guide.
African-American Music of the 19th Century: K-12 TLC Guide.

African-American Literature Book Club.
The African-American Web Connection.
Africana.
Afro.com African-American Newspapers.
American Radicalism, Michigan State University.
The Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.
Apollo Theater: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Atlantic Monthly:
- African-American Education.
- Race and Affirmative Action.
Black Academy of Arts and Letters.
Black Film Center/Archives, Indiana University.
Black Web 2.0: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Black World Today.
California African-American Museum.

Blacks in Latin-American History, African American Registry.

CBS News:

How the SEED School Is Changing Lives.

"Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination", U.S. Department of State:
- National Public Radio (audio):
  - Report #1: 9/21/00 (4:00).
  - Report #2: 9/22/00 (4:47).
Ebony.
Facts on the Black/African American Population, U.S. Census Bureau.
How Race is Lived in America, The New York Times (free user id required).
Howard University: K-12 TLC Guide.
Library of Congress:
- The African-American Mosaic.
Literature & Life: The Givens Collection, KTCA.
NAACP:

Official Website.

African American Registry.
History Learning Site.
National Public Radio:
- NAACP Centennial.
Spartacus.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: K-12 TLC Guide.
W.E.B. DuBois: K-12 TLC Guide.

Nation of Islam: K-12 TLC Guide.
National African American Parent Involvement Day (Second Monday in February):
- Education: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Parents and Parenting: K-12 TLC Guide.
- African American Registry.
- St. Paul Public Schools.
National Coalition of 100 Black Women.

National Council of Negro Women.

National Public Radio:
- 75 Years Later African-American Woman Posthumously Named High School Valedictorian.
- 1964 Murder of Frank Morris.
- 'Africa Boogaloo': An Intro to Afro-Latin Music.
- African-American Halloween Folklore: 10/28/00 (3:28).
- African-American Investing on the Rise: 12/5/00 (4:04).
- African-American Prosperity Lags White Americans.
- African-American Tobacco Settlement: 2/28/00 (3:45).
- American Police and People of Color: 2/29/00 (3:15).
- African-Americans & the 2000 Presidential Election (4:00).
- America's 'Sweethearts': An All-Girl Band That Broke Racial Boundaries.
- And Justice for Some: 4/26/00 (3:24).
- Anniversary of a Lynching.
- The Banjo's Roots, Reconsidered.
- Black Fathers: 1/23/00 (7:30).
- Black Models Celebrated as Runway Revolutionaries.
- 'Black Nature': Poems of Promise and Survival.
- Black Unemployment Rates: 1/6/00 (3:16).
- The Black Vote: 12/12/00 (7:34).
- Blacks Face Bone Marrow Donor Shortage.
- Child Adoption in Shelbyville, Texas: 3/19/00 (10:30).
- Church & African-American Economics: 09/22/00 (4:01).
- 'Disintegration' of America's Black Neighborhoods.
- Doing Time, and Doing Good, in Louisiana's Angola Prison.
- Federal Court Lifts Desegregation Order (8:43).
- Florida's Invalidated Black Votes: 12/3/00 (5:00).
- For Black Women, Breast Cancer Strikes Younger.
- Getting Out the Black Vote: 11/5/00 (5:00).
- The Great African-American Exodus North.
- "A Great Day in Harlem".
- Hispanic Farmers Fight to Sue USDA.
- How Black People May or May Not Use Twitter.
- How Food Helped Fuel the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
- HUD Underwriters Discriminating: 3/2/00 (3:00).
- Inside America's Black Upper Class: 2/20/00 (10:23).
- The Integration of the Washington Redskins.
- Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope.
- Legal Segregation in the U.S.: 12/30/99 (3:00).
- Librarian Changes the Life of a Boy Who Steals a Book.
- Life At Jefferson's Monticello, As His Slaves Saw It.
- Louisiana State University's First African-American Student).
- Making Sure Every Vote Counts: 12/17/00 (4:00).
- The Measure of a Man and a Father.
- Men, Women, Educational Differences: 8/30/00 (7:01).
- Military Race Relations: 11/23/99 (4:00).
- Minorities and Science (9:15).
- Minority Entrepreneurs: 9/25/00 (3:55).
- My Grandfather's Execution.
- NAACP Boycotts South Carolina GOP: 1/13/00 (4:09).
- NAACP to File Voter Rights Lawsuit: 12/01/00 (5:00).
- Nas, Damian Marley Dig For Rap's African Roots.
- Oscar and the African-American Actor : 3/25/00 (8:15).
- Pat Patrick's Lost Treasures.
- Rachel Robinson: Reflections of a Trailblazer.
- Racial Diversity in Democratic Party: 8/16/00 (4:34).
- Racial Profiling at Airports: 11/20/99 (5:30).
- Racial Profiling by New York Police: 12/6/99 (3:00).
- Racial Screening: 11/30/99 (47:00).
- Racist Hate Mail: 1/12/00 (4:06).
- Segregation in America: 'Dragging on and On'.
- Senate Chaplain: Religious Leader for Secular Flock.
- Sesame Street:Song: I Love My Hair.
- South Carolina GOP Voting Rights: 1/13/00 (4:09).
- Speedskater Shani Davis: 'Progress Is Being Made'.
- Standardized Testing and Minority Students (8:45).
- The State of Black America:
  - 11/16/99 (5:00).
  - 02/02/01 (4:30).
- The Strange Tale of Clarence King.
- Sudanese Basketball Dynasty.
- Tunes for Black Music Month.
- Using Voice for Racial Stereotyping: 5/19/00 (2:30).
- Viacom Buys BET: 11/03/00 (4:00).
- Virginia's Confederate History Month Offers Fresh Lesson in History's Power to Sting.
- 'What Is Soul?' New Faces Have Answers.
- Young Latinos, Blacks Answer Call of Mobile Devices.
The Negro As An American.
Portrait of Black Chicago, National Archives and Records Administration.
Smithsonian Magazine:

Holding on to Gullah Culture.

Southern California Public Radio:
- Harlem: Race Gap: Why Are African-American Boys So Far Behind In School?
University of Virginia:
- Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro.
- Multicultural Paths.
USAfricaonline.
The W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center.
The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.

African-
American Heritage

Historically
Black Colleges
and
Universities

African-American History: K-12 TLC Guide.
College: K-12 TLC Guide.
Education: K-12 TLC Guide.

U.S. Department of Interior.
U.S. Office of Minority Health.

Bluefield State College.
Bowie State University.
Central State University.
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.
Claflin College.
Clark Atlanta University.
Clinton Junior College.
Coahoma Community College.
Concordia College.
Coppin State College.
Delaware State University.
Denmark Technical College.
Dillard University.
Edward Waters College.
Elizabeth City State University.
Fayetteville State University.
Fisk University: K-12 TLC Guide.
Florida A&M University.
Florida Memorial College.
Fort Valley State College.
Fredd State Technical College.
Grambling State University.
Hampton University.
Harris-Stowe State College.
Hinds Community College.
Howard University.
Huston-Tillotson College.
Interdenominational Theological Center.
J.F. Drake State Technical College.
Jackson State University.
Jarvis Christian College.
Johnson C. Smith University.
Kentucky State University.
Knoxville College.
Lane College.
Langston University.
Lawson State Community College.
LeMoyne-Owen College.
Lewis College of Business.
Lincoln University, MO.
Lincoln University(Pennsylvania).
Livingstone College.
Mary Holmes College.
Meharry Medical College.
Miles College.
Mississippi Valley State University.
Morehouse College.
Morehouse School of Medicine.
Morgan State University.
Morris College.
Norfolk State University.
North Carolina A&T University.
North Carolina Central University.
Oakwood College.
Paine College.
Paul Quinn College.
Philander Smith College.
Prairie View A&M University.
Rust College.
Savannah State University.
Shaw University.
Shorter College.
South Carolina State University.
Southern University A&M College:

Southern University at New Orleans.
Southern University at Shreveport.

Southwestern Christian College.
Spelman College.
St. Augustine's College.
St. Paul's College.
St. Philip's College.
Stillman College.
Talladega College.
Tennessee State University.
Texas College.
Texas Southern University.
Tougaloo College.
Trenholm State Technical College.
Tuskegee University.
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of the District of Columbia.
University of the Virgin Islands.
Virginia State University.
Virginia Union University.
Voorhees College.
West Virginia State College.
Wilberforce University.
Wiley College.
Winston-Salem State University.
Xavier University of Louisiana.

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

02/14/1867: Founding of Morehouse College.

African-
American Heritage

Health

Poussaint, Alvin F.: K-12 TLC Guide.

American Association for the Advancement of Science:

Ethnic Genetics Effects Health Care: 05/18/01.
Black AIDS Institute.

National Public Radio:

African-American Tobacco Settlement (audio: 3:45).

Genital Herpes Hits Black Women Hardest.

Organ Shortage for Black Americans (audio: 6:30).

Racial Disparities & Kidney Transplants (audio: 4:30).

Sickle Cell Anemia: K-12 TLC Guide.

African-
American Heritage

Juneteenth

Holidays and Celebrations: K-12 TLC Guide.
Emancipation Proclamation: K-12 TLC Guide.

African-
American Heritage

Kwanzaa

Holidays and Celebrations: K-12 TLC Guide.

African-American Registry:

The Season of Kwanzaa.

History Channel:

About Kwanzaa.

12/26/1966: The First Kwanzaa.

Holiday Lesson Plans & Activities, Mr. Donn's.
The Holiday Spot.
Kwanzaa: The Official Web Site.
Pulse of the Planet:
- Kwanzaa: Traditions.
Teacher Resources.

African-
American Heritage

K-12 TLC Guide to Media.

Robert Johnson, National Public Radio: 5/25/00 (audio: 3:58).

African-
American Heritage

Famous African Americans.

Multicultural Book Reviews for K-12 Educators.

Primary:
- Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy, Andrea D. Pinkney, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator).
- Testing the Ice, by Sharon Robinson, illustrated by Kadir Nelson:
Young Adult:
- Lester, Julius: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Sterling, Dorothy: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy, Andrea D. Pinkney, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator).
- David Walker's Appeal: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Harriet Tubman: Secret Agent, Thomas B. Allen.
- Ruth and the Green Book by Floyd Cooper.
- Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War, Zak Mettger.
- The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis.
Adult:
- 3-D Publishing.com:
  - Black Explorers, C.R. Gibbs.
  - Black Inventors, C.R. Gibbs.
- Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin:
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, National Public Radio.
- A Journey in the Seaboard States (1856), Frederick Law Olmsted.
- Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, Marian Wright Edelman.
- Narrative Of The Life Of An American Slave, Frederick Douglass.
- A Nation Under Our Feet, Steven Hahn.
- National Public Radio (audio):
  - All That We Can Be..., Charles Moskos, National Public Radio (4:00).
  - Black Experience in America, Norman Coombs.
  - The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, Randall Robinson:
    - 2/10/00 (8:30).
- Native Son, Richard Wright.
- One Nation, One Standard by Herman Badillo:
- Our Kind of People: Black Upper Class, Lawrence Otis.
  - Amazon.com.
  - National Public Radio: 2/20/2000 (audio: 10:25).
- A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons, Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
- The Souls Of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois.
- W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight For Equality..., David Levering Lewis.

African-
American Heritage

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

03/01: Women of Color Day.

10/17: Black Poetry Day.


Aaron, Henry Abernathy, Ralph Adderley, Cannonball Ailey, Alvin Anderson, Marian Anderson, Michael Angelou, Maya Ashe, Arthur Attucks, Crispus Banneker, Benjamin Basie, Count Bearden, Romare Bontemps, Arna Bridges, Ruby Bryan, Ashley Burleigh, H.T. Carver, George Washington Cary, Mary Ann Shadd Chisholm, Shirley Coleman, Bessie Cooper, Floyd Cosby, Bill Count Basie Douglass, Frederick Dove, Rita Draper, Sharon Mills DuBois, W.E.B. Feelings, Tom Fortune, T. Thomas Foster, Rube Franklin, Aretha Gates, Henry Louis Greenfield, Eloise	Hamilton, Virginia Hampton, Lionel Handy, W.C. Hansen, Joyce Hughes, Langston Hunter-Lattany, Kristin Jackson, Jesse King, Martin Luther, Jr. Komunyakaa, Yusef Latimer, Lewis Lee, Spike Lester, Julius Malcolm X Marshall, Thurgood McBride, Christian McNair, Ronald Morrison, Toni Olajuwon, Hakeem Owens, Jesse Parks, Rosa Payton, Walter Petry, Ann Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, Jerry Powers, Harriet Razaf, Andy Rice, Condoleezza Ringgold, Faith Robeson, Paul Robinson, Jackie Russwurm, John B.	Schomburg, Arthur Shabazz, Betty Smith, Bessie Steptoe, John Sullivan, Leon Howard Taylor, Mildred Truth, Sojourner Tubman, Harriet Turner, Nat Vaughan, Sarah Walker, Alice Walker, Madame C.J. Walter, Mildred Pitts Washington, Booker T. Wells-Barnett, Ida Wheatley, Phillis Wilkins, Roy Williams, Daniel Hale Williams, Serena Williams, Venus Wilson, Ellis Winfrey, Oprah Woods, Tiger Woodson, Jacqueline Wright, Richard Young, Andrew

Notable African Americans.

Grades K-2:
- Celebrate A People!, Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins,
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grades 2:
- Famous African Americans, Ms. Kristin Davis, West View Elementary, Johnston County School District, NC.
Grades 2-3:
- TeacherLINK, Utah State University:
  - Kwanzaa, Joy Lazenby.
  - Kwanzaa, Tracy Cady.
Grade 3:
- African-American Culture through Literature,
  Karen E. Carazo, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grade 4:
- American Immigrants: A K-12 TLC Student Research Guide.
Grades 4-5:
- Light in Festivals, Aimee McNeil, Utah State University:
- The Boy's War, and Till Victory Is Won,
  Thomas E. Holmes, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute:
Grades 5-6:
- Choose Your Path, Mary-Alice Howley,
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grades 5-8:
- Curriculum Connections for White Lilacs,
  Mary Lou Meerson, Carolyn Meyer's Website.
Grade 6:
- Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute:
  - African American Folktales, Synia Carroll-McQuillan.
  - Afro-Americans and Their Poetry, Frances Ellen Pierce.
Grades 7-8:
- The Stranger Redeemed: A Portrait of a Black Poet,
  Ivory Erkerd, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grades 7-12:
- We, Too, Sing America, G. Casey Cassidy,
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grade 8:
- African-American Autobiography, Delores Marshall,
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grades 9-10:
- Black Like Me, Melanie Karaffa Tolan,
  SCORE: San Diego County Office of Education, CA:
Grades 9-12:
- Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois, Montgomery County Schools, MD.
- In Search of Afro-American Poets in Modern Times,
  Cynthia H. Roberts, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
- Native Son, Teach with Movies.
- Nobody Knows My Name/The Fire Next Time,
  Random House.
- A Raisin in the Sun, Random House.
- The Learning Page, The Library of Congress:
  - After Reconstruction.
  - Jackie Steals Home.
  - Jim Crow to Linda Brown: 1897-1953, Agnes Dunn and Eric Powell,
    Stafford County Public Schools, VA.
Grade 10:
- Tales from the City, Bill Coden,
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grades 10-12:
- The Role of the African Playwright as a Griot,
  Gerene L. Freeman, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Other:
- African-American Folktales, Joyce Patton,
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute .
- Begin Black History Month with Langston Hughes,
  University of Florida .
- Black History Month,
  Holiday Lesson Plans & Activities, Mr. Donn's.
- Black History Past & Present,
  Knowledge Network Explorer.
- Design a Postage Stamp: Black History Month,
  The Imagination Factory.
- The National Archives and Records Administration:
  - Black Soldiers in the Civil War.
  - The Many Faces of Paul Robeson.
  - Photographs: 369th Infantry - WWI.
  - Brown v. Board of Education.
- The National Park Service:
  - Canterbury to Little Rock: Educational Equality.
  - Chicago's Black Metropolis.
  - Iron Hill School.
- PBS:
  - Huck Finn in Context.
  - The Blues: Poetry - Blues Style.

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This guide last edited 03/12/2012
This guide last revised 02/17/2010