black history month Archives

168: Online Black History Resources

As February is Black History Month, here are some online Black History resources to add to your homeschool.

If you haven’t already listened to last year’s episode on the topic, you can find it here. None of the resources I mentioned in this episode are repeated from last year.

Here are the resources mentioned in this episode

Smithsonian’s Museum of American History African American history page which contains links to many resources including HitoryYime videos for elementary students.
Smithsonian Museum of American History’s Black History Youtube Channel
Museum of American history Business of Slavery – interactive primary documents
Smithsonian’s African American Museum interactive online displays and stories

A good Instagram account to follow
Amber O’Neal Johnston aka Heritagemomblog shares books and resources you are possibly not familiar with relating to Black History

To stream online
ABC Series – Women of the Movement on the Emmett Till story

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Free Digital Resources for Black History Month

118: Free Digital Resources for Black History Month

There are so many great digital resources for Black History month, so I decided just to primarily share ones with you that I actually use in my own classes.

These are the sites I mention where one can find many primary resources related to Black History.

Movies

Hidden figures
Tuskegee Airmen
Self-Made mini-series (fictionalized so check up the real story for comparison)

Documentary

Unchained Memories: readings from the Slave narratives – stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s

Game

Flight to Freedom

Digital breakouts

Harlem Renaissance

Virtual Field Trips

Civil Rights Memorial – Find it on Google street view and then read short bios of people mentioned on it here
National Park Service 28 Days of Black History Month
Many of the sites on this list from The History Mom have virtual tours.

Primary Sources

MLK comic book
Charlie Moore’s photos of the Civil Rights Movement
The Green Book

Also take a look at this African-American Black History Pinterest board by Ayanna Murray

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