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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Learn about our new Primary Source Set on the Great Migration.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present), Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Explore how a leaflet can show how the March on Washington was organized.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Explore our new primary source set on the Civil Rights Movement.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Explore how to use Chronicling America to study the Black American fight for freedom and the complicated narrative the documents this part of United States history.
Posted in: African American History, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Learn about Susie King Taylor, the first Black Civil War nurse, and her fight to obtain an education during slavery.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Explore the resources available to support classroom activities on African American history.
Posted in: African American History
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Learn about the Voices from the Days of Slavery collection and how you might use this collection with your students.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Use maps and photographs to study Greenwood Avenue before and after the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Posted in: African American History, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
A photograph of the abolitionist and suffrage activist Sojourner Truth that appears in the Library's newest Primary Source Set for educators, "Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort," provides an opportunity to discover the questions that the objects in a portrait can raise about the message that image might have been meant to convey.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Women's History