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President Johnson go to Selma now! / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson

Exploring African American History with Library of Congress Teacher Resources

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The Library of Congress continually adds new classroom materials and teacher blogs to help educators and their students explore the many facets of African American history. In honor of Black History Month, we’re featuring a few of these teacher resources, which have been developed over the past year.

Classroom Materials
A number of new classroom materials have been developed, which include primary source recommendations as well as teaching strategies:

Teaching with the Library Blog
Several new teacher blog posts were added over the past year. For example:

Timeless: Stories from the Library Blog
Finally, the main Library blog also added several new posts celebrating the contributions of African Americans:

For more resources related to African American history at the Library of Congress, explore these classroom materials, teacher blogs, free-to-use sets, and research guides. Let us know which ones and your students found to be helpful!

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