Black History Month
- Museum of Afro-American History — Learn more about this Boston Museum and the The Black Heritage Trail®
- Celebrating Black History — A collection of resources from Time.com
- Black History Month — A timeline, historical articles, quizzes and other features from the Boston Channel, WCVB-TV 5.
- Black History Month — A collection of biographies, maps, speeches and more from the History Channel website
- 50 Years of Black History — From the civil rights movement to the election of President Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root’s editor-in-chief, presents a timeline of the highlights of African-American history.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History — Includes brief biographies of prominent African-Africans, audio and video clips, a timeline of events, and more
- Black History at HarpWeek.com — A collection of articles, images and more from the pages of Harper’s Weekly
- Black History Month — InfoPlease’s Black History Month spotlight feature includes biographies of notable African-Americans, a Civil Rights timeline, and more
- Black History Month — A collection of news stories and features on Black History from CNN and the World African Network
- Images of African Americans from the Nineteenth Century — A large and well-organized collection from the Digital Schomburg, New York Public Library
- African-American Odyssey — The American Memory project of the Library of Congress presents this overview of African-American history, with many portraits, prints, and other historical illustrations
- Biography.Com Celebrates Black History Month — A collection of biographies, maps, video clips and more from A & E’s Biography
Activities for Kids
- African-American History: Black History Month — Activities for children from the Enchanted Learning website
- Black History Month — Resources for the classroom from Scholastic.com
- FamilyEducation.com: Black History Month — Articles, quizzes and other resources for different grade levels
- Celebrate Black History — Lesson plans, activities and games from Educationworld.com
- Patchwork of African-American Life — This site is created and maintained by Pacbell, who offers the following description: “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 chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic. What we hope to add to this richness are some specific strategies for integrating the Web into learning.”