Social Studies Websites with Facts about African American History and Culture for Kids

Websites with Facts about African American History and Culture for Kids

Here are more than a dozen interactive, multimedia websites on African American history, useful for Black History Month.  They include African American culture, timelines, art, ideas, themes and biographies.
 
 
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African American History Month

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Author/Host of Website

Library of Congress
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site:  The History of Black Economic Empowerment.  This year's theme recognizes the enterprise and entreupeneurship of African Americans, both past and present, that helped strengthen and invigorate the...
 
 
African American Odyssey

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Author/Host of Website

Library of Congress
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site: The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240...
 
 
Black History Month

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Author/Host of Website

Time for Kids
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site:  Then to Now - Black History Month reflects on, celebrates and honors the African-American experience from the times of slavery through the present day. Everywhere you look,...
 
 
Black History Past to Present

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Author/Host of Website

AT&T Education/AT&T
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
High (9-12)
Using links to online resources, students research the answers to a short quiz on important aspects of African American history.  They use this information to write a thesis statement on...
 
 
Black Wings: Pioneer Aviators

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Author/Host of Website

National Air and Space Museum/Smithsonian Institution
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site: Black Wings tells the story of how one group of Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break into aviation. African Americans shared the universal dream of flight. But...
 
 
Celebrating Black History

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Author/Host of Website

bio./A&E Television Network
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
Get a broad overview of Black History with a myriad of features on this site. You can start with an interactive timeline, get 101 fast facts, view photos...
 
 
Examination Days

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Author/Host of Website

New York Historical Society
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site: In 1787, at a time when slavery was crucial to the prosperity and expansion of New York, the New York African Free School was created by the...
 
 
Finishing the Dream

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Author/Host of Website

NBC Learn
Type of Educational Content

Video
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
Finishing the Dream: Learning from the Civil Rights Era offers videos from NBC news stories about the Civil Rights movement from 1954 - 1968, as well as interviews with...
 
 
Flight to Freedom

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Author/Host of Website

Professor Patrick Rael/ Bowdoin College
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
Middle and High (6-12)
From site: Slavery, according to historian and sociologist Orlando Patterson, was social death. This was especially so of the slavery practiced in the United States from its very...
 
 
From Slavery to Civil Rights

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Author/Host of Website

Library of Congress
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From Slavery to Civil Rights:  A Timeline of African-American History provides a short interactive timeline of key events, along with resources for teachers.
 
 
National African American History

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Author/Host of Website

National Park Service
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
The National Park Service invites you to meet some of the people and visit some of the historic places where African Americans have shaped our nation.  For teachers, there...
 
 
NMAAHC

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Author/Host of Website

Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site: The Museum on the Web is the online experience of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. With the help of a $1...
 
 
Patchwork of African-American Life

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Author/Host of Website

Knowledge Network Explorer/AT&T
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site: The following six Web sites were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was...
 
 
Separate Is Not Equal

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Author/Host of Website

Smithsonian Museum of American History
Type of Educational Content

Website
This site has Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
This site has content for Parents
This site is free or has some free content
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education is a special exhibit and educational materials marking the 50th anniversary of this turning point in American history.  The...
 
 
ShadowSoldier

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Author/Host of Website

shadowsoldier.org
Type of Educational Content

Website
Grade Level
All Ages (K-12)
From site: African American soldiers of the 24th Infantry and 9th Cavalry protected the National Parks of California at the turn of the last century. Their contributions have...
 
 
 
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