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Booker T. Washington

Marion Anderson

Thurgood Marshall

Langston Hughes

Martin Luther King

 

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Students will research and discover the rich African American heritage. They will also discover the unique contributions made to this country by African Americans throughout history.

BOOK TITLE

CALL NUMBER
Follow the Drinking Gourd E WIN
9 African American Inventors 920 HAY
Ashley Bryan's ABC of  African American Poetry 811 ASH
Carver, a Life in Poems 811 NEL
Creative Fire 700.89 CRE
Black Stars in Orbit: Nasa's African American Astronauts 920 BAR
Great African Americans in Civil Rights 920 RED
Black Frontiers: An Encyclopedia of African American Heroes of the Old West 978 SCH
Five Brave Explorers 920 HUD
Roosevelt Grady FIC SHO
African American Folktales for  Young Readers 398.208 AFR
African American Inventors 920 MCK
African American Poets 920 STR
African American Scientists 920 MCK
Black Women of the Old West 978.004 KAT
A Dime A Dozen 811 GRI
Brown Angels: An album of Pictures and Verse 811.54 MYE

The Other Side: Shorter Poems

811 JOH
Now is your Time! 973.04 MYE
Sweet Words so Brave 810.9 CUR
Children of the Civil Rights Era 323.1 WEL
Children of the Emancipation 973.7 KEN

 

BOOK TITLE

CALL NUMBER

Best Cowboy in the West: The Story of Nat Love

B LOV

Walking the Road to Freedom B TRU
TD Jakes B JAK
Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By B ROB
Colin Powell: Straight to the Top B POW
Carter Woodson:  Father of African American History B WOO
The Real McCoy: The Life of an African American Inventor B MCC
Shoes for Everyone: A Story about Jan matzeliger B MAT
Frederick Douglass B DOU
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass B DOU
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth B TRU
Sojourner Truth:  A Voice for Freedom B TRU
Faith Ringgold B RIN
Jackie's Nine B ROB
Bill Pickett: African American Rodeo Star B PIC
Mountain Man; The life of Jim Beckworth B BEC
Fly High: The Story of Bessie Coleman E COL
Benjamin Banneker B BAN
MArtin Luther King, Jr. B KIN
Coretta Scott King B Kin
I Have A Dream: The Life and Words of Martin Luther King B KIN
If a Bus could talk: The Story of Rosa Parks B PAR
Booker T Washington: Educator and Leader B WAS
Maya Angelou: Journey of the Heart B AND

 

Ezra Jack Keats Library

VID FIC EZR

African American Experience

VID FIC BLA
African American Heritage VID 973.049 AFR
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King VID KIN

 

 

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  Scavenger Hunt
Images from 19th Century African Americans
  African Americans in World War II
Biographies of Notable African Americans
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   Black Inventions
Timeline of African American History
Origins of Black History Month
  Links to African American Websites

 

 

(AVAILABLE ONLY IN RISD)

  The Playing Field (22:47)
  Quick to Judge (14:40)
  Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" speech. (audio only)
  African American Folktales (20:36)
  Black History Month (14:37)
  A Conversation with Rosa Parks (14:58)
Historic Moments in Black History
 Martin Luther King: The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement(17:53)
  The Story of John Henry (19:11)

 

Reconstruction
Civil Rights Timeline
Underground Railroad (An interactive journey through the underground railroad)
  Black History Month (History Channel)
Early African American History (PBS)

 

 

Maya Angelou
Jesse Owens
Harriet Tubman
George Washington Carver
Louis Armstrong
Sojourner Truth
Mae Jemison
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
Toni Morrison

 

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