I haven't completely gone through all of these sites, so please use discretion and do some previewing!
These two sites contain many links for studying African American history:
Awesome Stories is a favorite resource in our homeschool. "Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources, IN CONTEXT, within each story." This is a huge site with tons and tons of information. If you haven't seen it, it is well worth looking at. I signed up for the free academic membership a few years ago, which gives you access to narrated stories, lesson plans, text documents, etc. Here are some of the Awesome Stories links related to Black History Month:
- Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Movie
- Slave Voices
- Black History Month (A-I) and Black History Month (J-Z) (some of these will link to chapters in the above topic - they are "focused topic" lists)
- Slavery and the Slave Trade (A-F) and Slavery and the Slave Trade (G-Z) (focused topic lists)
- Civil Rights (a focused topic list)
- American Civil War (A-I) and American Civil War (J-Z) (focused topic lists)
- PBS: Africans in America: This is a very informative PBS website. I was amazed at the amount of information here! There is also a PBS video series by this name that I was able to obtain from my local library. It is also available at Netflix.
- PBS: African American World: Your guide to African American history and culture
- Black History at History.com
- The Underground Railroad (interactive National Geographic site)
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: If you saw the movie "Amazing Grace," this is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, one of the people featured in the movie.
- Educational Bookmarks for Black History Month
- Culture and Change: Black History in America (Scholastic site)
- PBS: Wonders of the African World
- PBS: Africa for Kids
- PBS: Kids Africa
- Xpeditions Printable Map of Africa (I had to include at least one map! You can customize this one for printing.)
Although this post highlights free resources for Black History Month, I would be remiss if I didn't mention fellow homeschooler Belinda Bullard's Christ-centered, literature-based history curriculum, written from an African American perspective. Her products and samples are available at A Blessed Heritage Educational Resources.
We supplemented our Tapestry of Grace Year 2 and Year 3 curriculum with This Far by Faith, Volume 1. We are currently using This Far by Faith, Volume 2 as our main history curriculum, supplemented by Tapestry of Grace Year 3 and Year 4 selections and some extra work for our high school students. I highly recommend this inexpensive resource if you are interested in adding an African American focus to your history studies.
Belinda has also written a unit study called A Historical Walk through the Harlem Renaissance that we will be purchasing once we get to the 1920s. I am really excited about it!
Enjoy!
We supplemented our Tapestry of Grace Year 2 and Year 3 curriculum with This Far by Faith, Volume 1. We are currently using This Far by Faith, Volume 2 as our main history curriculum, supplemented by Tapestry of Grace Year 3 and Year 4 selections and some extra work for our high school students. I highly recommend this inexpensive resource if you are interested in adding an African American focus to your history studies.
Belinda has also written a unit study called A Historical Walk through the Harlem Renaissance that we will be purchasing once we get to the 1920s. I am really excited about it!
