LESSON COLLECTION: The NEH Rocks Black History Month
February’s Black History Month is the perfect time to investigate the tremendous contributions that African Americans have made to the history and cultural development of the United States. In this feature, teachers, parents, and students will be introduced to a few of the most influential voices and the most memorable images from African American history, art, and literature.
Picturing America resources on African American history
There are five Picturing America images on the PA website that are appropriate for teaching various aspects of Black History Month
10 A Augustus Saint-Gaudens Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty Fourth Regiment Memorial
Discover the bronze sculptural monument to the heroes of the film "Glory"
10B Quilts
Learn African American history through the quilts made in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
17 A Jacob Lawrence The Migration Series, no. 57
Learn the story of the great migration north of African American from the South in the 20th century as you explore literature from the Harlem Renaissance
17 B Romare Bearden The Dove, 1964
Learn about the optimism of African American artists in the early sixties through this collage
19 B James Karales Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965
Imagine what it was like to travel by foot from Selma to Montgomery through this historic photograph of the Civil Rights March
For the full deluge of African American history, art, and literature check their monthly feature page and or the other lessons below...
- African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War
- African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Cha...
- African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions
- Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights
- Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
- Dr. King's Dream
- The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps
- Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
- From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
- The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America: A House D...
- Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
- Martin Puryear’s Ladder for Booker T. Washington
- NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in th...
- Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
- Perspective on the Slave Narrative
- The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You
- A Raisin in the Sun: The Quest for the American Dream
- Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Prima...
- Slavery and the American Founding: The “Inconsistency not to be exc...
- Spirituals
- To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage
- Who Was Cinque?
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