Here are some resources your kids could explore for Black History Month.
Teens: Drop Me Off in Harlem You can click Play All.
Elementary: Musical Harlem
Everyone: Watch Alvin Ailey’s Revelations (excerpts) Watching Guide (“Learn More”)
Everyone: Listen to “Of Thee We Sing.” Marian Anderson Click on Listen.
Everyone: Tour a gallery of African American artists Take the tour. You can click on the pictures to see them larger.
Middle school/High school: Political cartoon after Brown vs. Board of Education, video clip on the first high school ordered to be desegregated
Teens: Click on the tabs along the side, a learning resource on the Civil Rights Movement.
Everyone: a place to read
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- A History of Hip-Hop
- The Truth About Race: It’s Not What it Looks Like
- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
- Biographies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Jackie Robinson
Elementary: US Mission Escape from Slavery