Thank you to our Contributors:
- The staff at ATBHK
- Thomas D. Clark Foundation
- Muhammad Ali Center
- Kentucky State University
- Berea College
- Kentucky Historical Society
- Frazier Kentucky History Museum
- The University Press of Kentucky (UPK)
- Kentucky Department of Education
- The Filson Historical Society
Links to Websites, Articles and Blogs in reference to Black History
Organizations and Historical websites across the nation provide resources to teachers, including documents and lesson plans. Most of these are free.
National Black History Websites
For Students & Educators
National Website Resources on Black History:
- African American History Month: Lesson Plans
- Associated Press: Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement
- Black Freedom: Primary documents (ProQuest)
- BlackPast
- Civil Rights Trail: Explore the History
- DoubleClick Democracy
- Free Philadelphia Library
- Equal Justice Initiative: Community Remembrance Project
- Jackdaw Publications: Primary resource documents
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House: Reading list
- History Channel: Civil Rights Movement
- Library of Congress: Primary sources database
- “The Lost Year: The Untold Story of the Year Following the Crisis at Central High School 1958-1959”
- Music by Black Composers
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Lesson Plans
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center: Online Learning Resources
- New York Times: 1619 Project
- PBS Learning Media: Civil Rights
- Smithsonian: Folkways Recording Teaching Lesson Plans
- Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of African American History Culture
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Teaching Tolerance
- Yale Open Courses: The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Yale Open Courses: African American History
- Yale Open Courses: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Kentucky Black History Websites
For Students & Educators
Kentucky Website Resources on Black History:
- Ali Center: Racial Justice Programming Series
- Berea College: Carter G. Woodson Center
- Boone County Public Library: African Americans of the Borderlands
- Civil Rights Trail: Kentucky
- Kentucky African American Heritage Commission
- Kentucky Commission on Human Rights: Gallery of Great Black Kentuckians
- Kentucky Historical Society: African American History Suggested Resources
- Kentucky Humanities: Speakers Bureau
- Kentucky Oral History Commission/KET: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky
- KET / PBS: Resources & Lesson Plans
- NKU: Mourning the Creation of Racial Categories Project
- Podcast: Bell hooks: becoming, being, beyond
- Podcast: The Mutuality of Country People
- Podcast: The Reckoning – Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
- SEEK Museum: Struggles for Emancipation and Equality in Kentucky
- University of Kentucky: Notable Kentucky Africans Database
Facing History & Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves was recommended by Carrie Mayer, who teaches government in the 11th and 12th grades at Walton-Verona High School. Carrie’s comment: “Great lessons for teaching tough topics – race, discrimination, hate, genocide.”
Here are a few examples of lesson plans:
Black History Resources
by Sylvea Hollis
Here is a running list of open educational resources that center Black History. This project started during the work-from-home part of the pandemic(s). Most of the collection descriptions below are taken directly from the corresponding websites. Some have been abridged or edited for clarity.
- Sylvea Hollis, Ph.D.: Sylvea Hollis is an Associate Professor of African and African American History at Montgomery College. Hollis earned a Ph.D. in US History, with a concentration in African American History from the University of Iowa.
- Her Website with Educator’s Links
PBS Learning Media
PBS offers an extensive list of lesson plans, grade-tailored. Here are a few examples: