1)
Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html
Interviews with former slaves.
Grade level 5th - 12th: Text interviews. Sound files can be used with all ages.
2)
Civil Rights Oral History - Sound Recordings Click ORAL HISTORIES!!
ttp://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.html
Interviews with participants in the civil rights movement. Click on ORAL HISTORIES
when you review this page.
3)
Famous Speeches from the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/0,6709,97373,00.html
Sound recordings of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson
on Civil Rights.
4) ERAS In Black History
- Sound and Media Files (6th grade and above)
http://blackhistory.eb.com
Encyclopedia Britanica's focus on Black History. Click Audio/Video for
multimedia requires High bandwith connection, but useful for younger children.
5)
Virtual Tours - Timelines - Grade 3 - 6
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/0,6709,97502,00.html
Time for Kids - Black History Then and Now
This timeline presents various eras of black history in short simple pages.
6)
Black History Time Line - Grade 4 - 8
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/timeline/game.htm
An interactive timeline.
7) Underground
Railroad - Grade K - 8 High bandwidth
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
A virtual tour of the Underground Railroad
For how to use this multimedia resource with different age groups click to the
classroom ideas.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/lp.html
8)
Scholastic: Culture and Change (Grades 2 - 6)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/index.htm
A set of lesson plans and online resources for black history, including an interactive
timeline and easy to read biographies created by Scholastic.
9) The
African American Oddyssy (Grades 6 - 12)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Text, Photos and Manuscripts for Middle/Highschool School
The exhibition The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship,
showcases the incomparable African-American collections of the Library of Congress.
Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts,
maps, musical scores, plays, films and recordings. This is the largest black
history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition of any kind
to feature presentations in all three of the Library's buildings.
Click on the objects embedded in text for full access.
10)
Black History Hotlist (Grades 5 - 10)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
A teacher's collection of black history sites.
11)
The Amistad (Grades 4 - 8)
http://www.amistadamerica.org/new/main/html/index-intro.html
Learn the story of the Amistad survivors.
12) Lesson Ideas
and Plans for Teachers (K - 2) (Lesson ideas only.)
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/mlk.shtml
Lessons developed for the K-2 classroom.
13) Kindergarten
Activities Pre-K (Lesson ideas only)
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/black-history.htm
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