African American History Month
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Use the following resources to aid your class lessons and discussions on the topic. As with all media, please preview to assure the content is appropriate for your audience and community.
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Black History: Analyze Historical Figures and Civil Rights
Discovery Education.
Grades K-5.
Reading Rainbow: Following the Drinking Gourd
Discovery Education.
Grades K-5.
Africa/African American Culture
Africa/African American Culture. These KET videos provide examples of West African and African-American music, dance, and storytelling. Performances include a Nigerian welcome dance and Togolese cleansing dance. A Mahouka stilt dancer from Cote D'Ivoire performs a recreational dance and a sacred rite in honor of the spirit world, and a Malian musician performs Music of Mali and joins a drum and dance group in a dance of celebration. A storyteller recounts "Anansi's Rescue from the River" a tale from the Ashanti of Ghana. Music and dance from slave communities in the southern U.S. include performances of "Zudio," "Hambone," and the Plantation Dance/Ring Shout. From the KET Arts Toolkits.
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades K-12.
Celebrating Black History
Discovery Education.
Grades 3-5.
Mission US: Flight to Freedom
Mission US.
Grades 3-8.
Rosa Parks
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades 3-12.
Duke Ellington
Discovery Education.
Grades 4-8.
African American History | History Detectives
PBS LearningMedia. Media Gallery.
Grades 4-12.
Gullah Music
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades 4-12.
African American World: Timeline
PBS LearningMedia. Timeline.
Grades 6-12.
A History of Black Achievement in America: The Fight for Freedom
Discovery Education.
Grades 6-12.
The Story We Did Not Know About Rosa Parks
Discovery Education.
Grades 6-12.
The Abolitionists
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades 6-12.
The Harlem Renaissance Collection
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades 6-12.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. The series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Using video clips from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, this collection of lesson plans address a wide range of themes of the African-American experience from 1500 to the present.
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades 7-12.
African American Quotation Posters
Frederick Douglass
Harlem in the 1920s
It Takes Courage to Be Weak
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades 9-12.
Using Oral History to Understand Segregation
PBS LearningMedia.
Grades 9-12.
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