Enjoy these resources from AIHE's online African-American curriculum, sojournerhistory.com, as we celebrate Black History Month during February.

The development of a true African-American culture is a stool resting on three legs: the African past, the dislocation created by the Atlantic slave trade, and the world in which the people of the African Diaspora had to survive. The following resources, though far from comprehensive, were selected in an effort to highlight the agency with which African Americans have worked to shape their own destinies throughout history.

VIDEOs

	sojourner Truth Character re-enactor Daisy Century discusses her life and her struggles for freedom and equality.
	the fepc, world war II and the roots of the civil rights movement Dr. Larry Greene from Seton Hall University discusses the creation of the FEPC in 1941, World War II and the roots of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

 

Primary Sources

Life of Olaudah Equiano, by Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Hypocrisy of America Slavery, by Frederick Douglass, 1852

Atlanta Exposition Speech, by Booker T. Washington, 1895

The Talented Tenth, by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903

Message to the Grassroots, by Malcolm X, 1963

"I Have a Dream", Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

 

dialogues

Silent Trade

The Corps d’Afrique: Louisiana’s Black Regiment

Testament: Little Rock Nine

 

Literature connections

On Being Brought From Africa to America, by Phyllis Wheatley, c. 1773

Freedom's Plow, by Langston Hughes, 1943

Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou, 1978

 

Lessons and Activities

The First Black Newspaper (elementary)

African American Scientists and Inventors (elementary)

Eradicating the Achievement Gap: History, Education, and Reformation (middle school)

African-American Youth Involvement in Civic Affairs: A Social Action Framework for Community and Civic Engagement (middle school)

The African Country Project: Making Ancestral Connections (high school)

NAACP: Helping African Americans Confront Social Injustices for More Than a Century (high school)