1. Check
out some videos on Black history, such as "The Black West"
or "Abubakari: The Explorer King of Mali". These are recipients
of the Gold Apple from the National Educational Media Association,
Telly Award. Includes comprehensive support
materials, 16 reproducible cross-curriculum activities and activity
guides.
2. Get some celebrate diversity life savers and other multicultural
celebration aids such as education posters, t-shirts and videos:
http://www.guidancechannel.com/marketplace/default.asp?fn=pID&catID=7&pID=400
3. Multigenerational
celebrating with songs, books.
http://nonesuch.flyingredslippers.org/february.html
4. Take the Black
History quiz:
http://www.familyeducation.com/quiz/0,1399,1-4888,00.html?relinks
5. The African-American
Mosaic, A Library of Congress Resource
Guide for the study of Black history & culture, including ex-slave
narratives:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
6. Read about inventions
made by Black Americans:
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes /blackhistory/list.htm
Did You Know?
- Alfred Benjamin invented stainless steel pads
- John A. Burr invented the lawn mower
- George Carruthers invented the image converter
radiation detector
- L.F. Brown invented the horse bridle bit
- Sarah Boone invented the ironing board
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7. Visit the Harlem Renaissance Page: http://www.jeannepasero.com/harlem.html
8. African
Americans in the Visual Arts:http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/
cwp/library/aavaahp.htm
9. Archives
of African American Music and Culture selected list of
Internet resources for African American Music:
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/
10. A wonderful link with profiles
of prominent Blacks:
Read about Marian Anderson, contralto; Jackie Robinson,
baseball pioneer; Wilma Rudolph, Olympia sprinter; Sidney
Poitier, Oscar-award winning actor; Maya Angelou, poet;
George Washington Carver, inventor, and other important Black
figures in history.
http://www.who2.com/blackhistory.html

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About the Author © 2003 Susan Dunn,
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