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US: African AmericansHere are more than a dozen interactive, multimedia websites on African American history, useful for Black History Month. They include African American culture, timelines, art, ideas, themes and biographies.
February 06, 2010 Hits: 8
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From site: The History of Black Economic Empowerment. This year's theme recognizes the enterprise and entreupeneurship of African Americans, both past and present, that helped strengthen and invigorate the nation.
December 02, 2008 Hits: 94
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From site: 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. . .
March 05, 2010 Hits: 5
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From site: Then to Now - Black History Month reflects on, celebrates and honors the African-American experience from the times of slavery through the present day. Everywhere you look, black culture, talent, and expression have played an enormous role in shaping America’s past and present.
January 21, 2008 Hits: 45
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Using links to online resources, students research the answers to a short quiz on important aspects of African American history. They use this information to write a thesis statement on what they consider to be the three most important aspects of black history. Students will then use this thesis statement as a basis for writing a persuasive essay.
July 07, 2008 Hits: 56
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From site: Black Wings tells the story of how one group of Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break into aviation. African Americans shared the universal dream of flight. But for almost 50 years after the Wright brothers’ historic flight in 1903, racial discrimination denied black Americans access to this important sphere of technology.
This online exhibit is about the early black pioneers of aviation who learned to fly despite all these formidable obstacles.
November 23, 2008 Hits: 55
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Get a broad overview of Black History with a myriad of features on this site. You can start with an interactive timeline, get 101 fast facts, view photos and videos of important figures and historic moments, read an extensive biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., and participate in an online forum. There are study guides for the classroom, with links and resources for teachers.
February 17, 2009 Hits: 41
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From site: In 1787, at a time when slavery was crucial to the prosperity and expansion of New York, the New York African Free School was created by the New York Manumission Society, a group dedicated to advocating for African Americans. The school's explicit mission was to educate black children to take their place as equals to white American citizens. It began as a single-room schoolhouse with about forty students, the majority of whom were the children of slaves, and by the time it was absorbed into the New York City public school system in 1835, it had educated thousands of children, a number of whom went on to become well known in the United States and Europe. The New-York Historical Society’s New York African Free School Collection preserves a rich selection of student work and community commentary about the school. This site showcases pages from Volume IV of the collection, Penmanship and Drawing Studies, 1816–26, and tells the story of the school and of African American New York in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
January 05, 2009 Hits: 45
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From site: Slavery, according to historian and sociologist Orlando Patterson, was social death. This was especially so of the slavery practiced in the United States from its very founding as a colonial empire in 1609, to 1865, when ended the bloody struggle which abolished the institution and united the nation. During the three and one-half centuries of slavery's existence, millions of African-descended people were torn from their homes, separated from family and community, and brutally put to the lash for profit.
February 11, 2009 Hits: 39
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From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History provides a short interactive timeline of key events, along with resources for teachers.
February 06, 2010 Hits: 10
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The National Park Service invites you to meet some of the people and visit some of the historic places where African Americans have shaped our nation. For teachers, there are lesson plans to enliven classroom discussions.
February 06, 2009 Hits: 50
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From site: The Museum on the Web is the online experience of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. With the help of a $1 million grant of technology and expertise from IBM, the NMAAHC Museum on the Web represents a unique partnership to use innovative IBM expertise and services to bring the stories of African American History to a global audience. Conceived from the very beginning as a fully virtual precursor to the museum to be built on the Washington Mall, this is the first time a major museum is opening its doors on the Web prior to its physical existence.
December 02, 2008 Hits: 48
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From site: The following six Web sites were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic. What we hope to add to this richness are some specific strategies for integrating the Web into learning. So rather than merely send learners to a Web site, we've arranged separate formats designed to support different kinds of learning. Read the blurbs below to help you decide which activities you might want to use.
February 12, 2010 Hits: 6
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Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education is a special exhibit and educational materials marking the 50th anniversary of this turning point in American history. The educational materials include an annotated bibliography with links to related resources and books, electronic field trips, a timeline, and teacher resources with lesson plans for students in grades 4-12.
September 01, 2009 Hits: 22
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From site: African American soldiers of the 24th Infantry and 9th Cavalry protected the National Parks of California at the turn of the last century. Their contributions have been either forgotten or ignored. The prevailing view of American history is that African-Americans and other people of color played no major role in those formative years. People of color helped shape the American West; the recognition of this has not yet come to pass.
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SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives... The K-12 Learning portion of the SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA Web site was developed in close concert with American History and Social Studies teachers. A recurring topic from our advisors was to develop projects and activities that help students take on the many different perspectives of people involved in slavery in order to better understand the climate in which slavery existed. This section of the site -- with historical fiction for grades 3-12, Lesson Plans for ages 9-18, primary sources, and a Virtual Museum with contributions from museums across the country and exhibits curated by students -- offers resources we hope you will find valuable for your classrooms.
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