Listed below are three types of resources on African American and Global African history that can be used in the classroom or at home during the remainder of the pandemic, that is, until a vaccine is found and distributed. The first section is a list of available online courses from colleges and universities across the United States. These are courses that can be taken by anyone in the BlackPast.org audience. There are also lesson plans that can be used in the classroom or in homeschooling sessions. Finally, there are museum virtual tours that can be accessed by anyone in our audience. If you have suggestions please send them to [email protected].
- African American History in Colorado, History of Colorado Center, Denver, Colorado
- Chez Baldwin, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.
- Jacob Lawrence, the American Struggle, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
- Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, Washington, D.C.
- Photos from the Civil Rights Movement, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
- Portraits of African Americans, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- The Rosa Parks Collection, Telling Her Own Story, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Sahel: Art and Empire on the Shores of the Sahara, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
- Silas Farley: Songs from the Spirit, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Global History
- The Story of Africa, BBC World Service
- The Teaching Africa Outreach Program, Boston University African Studies Center
- In Motion: The TransAtlantic Slave Trade
The United States, 1776 to 1860
- The Declaration of Independence, Created Equal? The Library of Congress
- John Horse and the Black Seminoles
- Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
- The Christiana Riot Lesson Plan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Ken Burns’ The Civil War: Lesson Plan
- The Reconstruction Amendments, PBS Learning Media
- Robert Smalls: From Slavery to Politics, PBS Learning Media
The Era of Racial Segregation, 1878-1920
- African American Identity in the Gilded Age, Library of Congress
- After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South, Library of Congress
- The Supreme Court: The Civil Rights Cases, PBS Learning Media
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Booker T. Washington, An Education, PBS Learning Media
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown, PBS Learning Media
- Lucy Laney, PBS Learning Media
- Pap Singleton to Kansas, PBS Learning Media
- Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown, Library of Congress
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Blacks and Whites in the New South, PBS Learning Media
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Ned Cobb, Fighting for the Farmer, PBS Learning Media
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Isiah Montgomery Founds Mound Bayou, PBS Learning Media
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Edisto Island, PBS Learning Media
- Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois: The Conflict, PBS Learning Media
- Ida B. Wells, A Lifetime of Activism, PBS Learning Media
- The Atlanta Riot, 1906, PBS Learning Media
- The Crisis: A Weapon Against Jim Crow, PBS Learning Media
- Segregated Schooling in South Carolina, PBS Learning Media
The Rise of Black Urban America, 1920-1950
- In Motion: The Great Migration
- Understanding the Great Migration, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Strange Fruit: A Song Born of Protest, PBS Learning Media
- What Was the Harlem Renaissance? A Walk Through Harlem, PBS Learning Media
Civil Rights-Black Power, 1951-1980
- Barbara Johns of Farmville, Virginia, PBS Learning Media
- Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Charles Hamilton Houston and his Legal Challenge Against Jim Crow, PBS Learning Media
- Simple Justice: A Handful of Lawyers, PBS Learning Media
- By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s to 1960s, Library of Congress
- Places and People of the Civil Rights Movement, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Black Panther Party Lesson Plan, Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project, University of Washington
- The Hyde County School Boycott, PBS Learning Media