Black History Month
Resources
Mini-Research Projects
- Annotated Bibliography - limit to 3 sources
- Book Report
- Flip Grid Video Report
- Article Review
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives
Other related collections:
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
- The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
- Voices from the Days of Slavery
Black Lives Matter
Websites
Black Lives Matter @ Al Jazeera
Teaching Resources
- Teaching for Black Lives, Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au. Rethinking Schools.
- Black Lives Matter: Resources for Curriculum, The Rochester Board of Education, Rochester Teachers Association and Association of Supervisors and Administrators of Rochester
- Black Lives Matter School Resources by Grade Level, Teaching for Change
- Creating the Space to Talk about Race in Your School (PDF), National Education Association
Lesson Plan: COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement
COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement
Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. 29 pages.
Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement.
General Resources
Brown, Marvelyn, and Courtney Martin E. The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive. New York: Amistad, 2008. Print.
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown, 2010. Print.
Scott, Jill. The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott. New York: St. Martin's, 2005. Print.
McQuillar, Tayannah Lee, and Freddie Johnson Lee. Tupac Shakur: The Life and times of an American Icon. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2010. Print.
Myers, Walter Dean. Bad Boy: A Memoir. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2001. Print.
Henderson, Jeff. Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras. New York: William Morrow, 2007. Print.
Moore, Wes. The Other Wes Moore: The Story of One Name and Two Fates. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. Print.
Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara. I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub., 1994. Print.
Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. New York, NY: Vanguard, 2007. Print.
Publishing, Infobase. The Harlem Renaissance. New York: Infobase Pub., 2003. Print.
Walker, Alice. The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir. New York: New, 2011. Print.
Giovanni, Nikki. Evidence: Poems. S.l.: HarperCollins / William Morrow, 2009. Print.
Dungy, Camille T. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Athens: University of Georgia, 2009. Print.
Oliver, Richard W., and Tim Leffel. Hip-hop, Inc.: Success Strategies of the Rap Moguls. New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth, 2006. Print.
Hills, Patricia. Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence. Berkeley: University of California, 2009. Print.
Bearden, Romare, and Mary Corlett Lee. From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden. Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, 2009. Print.
Aronson, Marc. Race: A History beyond Black and White. New York: Ginee Seo /Atheneum for Young Readers, 2007. Print.
Tushnet, Mark V. Brown v. the Board of Education: The Battle for Intergration. Grolier: New York, 1995. Print.
Blake, John. Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Transformed Their Families. Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 2004. Print.
Forbes, Flores A. Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party. New York: Washington Square, 2007. Print.
Charnas, Dan. The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-hop. New York, NY: New American Library, 2010. Print.
Hands on the Freedom Plow Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 2010. Print.
Golden, Marita. Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey through the Color Complex. New York: Doubleday, 2004. Print.
Howard Zinn On Race. S.l.: Seven Stories, 2011. Print.
Williams, Mary E. Interracial America: At Issue. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2001. Print.
Touré. Who's Afraid of Post-blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now. New York: Free, 2011. Print.
Mabry, Marcus. White Bucks and Black-eyed Peas: Coming of Age Black in White America. New York: Scribner, 1995. Print.
Harper, Hill. Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny. New York, NY: Gotham, 2008. Print.
Haas, Jeffrey. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill /Chicago Review, 2010. Print.
Fretz, Eric. Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2010. Print.
The Pact. Perfection Learning Prebound, 2009. Print. Brown, Jeannette E. African American Women Chemists. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. Print.