Celebrating Black History Month

Acceptable People to research

Please use our Library Reference Database Sites First, Use BOOKS, use encyclopedias, use Google LAST. Google Images is NOT a source.

General Reference Sites

About.Com

http://712educators.about.com/cs/historyafricanam/a/blackhistory.htm

African Americans in History http://www.uga.edu/iaas/History.html
Africa Within (Banneker, Carver, Douglass, Truth, Walker, Malcolm X) http://www.africawithin.com/bios/bios.htm
Biography.com http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/
Black Renaissance http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/bios/
CMG Worldwide http://blackhistory.cmgworldwide.com/
CNN special report* http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/bhm/
EdHelper partial biographies http://www.edhelper.com/BlackHistory.htm
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History http://search.eb.com/blackhistory
Gale Group* http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/index.htm
Lessons to celebrate Black History Month http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson221.shtml
The History Channel http://www.historychannel.com/blackhistory/?page=icons
The HistoryMakers http://www.thehistorymakers.org
Our Shared History http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory
PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia        http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/index.html
PBS's African American World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
Reading Rockets http://www.readingrockets.org/calendar/blackhistory
Scholastic http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory
Teachervision http://www.teachervision.fen.com/black-history-month/black-history/6602.html
Time Magazine's Time for Kids Online: Black History Month http://www.timeforkids/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,97217,00.html
Time http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory

World Book Encyclopedia

http://www2.worldbook.com/features/features.asp?feature=aajourney&page=html/intro.html

Arthur Ashe

About.com http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/athletessports/p/bio_arthurashe.htm

Arthur Ashe official site

http://www.cmgww.com/sports/ashe/index.php (official site)

Houston Chronicle (Breaking Special Barriers)

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/sports/special/barriers/ashe.html

Benjamin Bannaker

About.Com http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa012201a.htm?once=true&
The Progress Report http://www.progress.org/banneker/bb.html
Timeline of African American History in Maryland http://library.thinkquest.org/3337/banneker.html

Guion "Guy" Bluford

About.Com http://space.about.com/cs/formerastronauts/a/guionbluford.htm
NASA http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/bluford-gs.html
Post Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20020206kids0206p9.asp

George Washington Carver

About.com http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa041897.htm
Africa Within http://www.africawithin.com/bios/george_carver.htm
Kulture Kidz http://www.aakulturezone.com/kidz/abc/gwcarver.html
World Almanac for Kids http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/inventions/carver_georgew.html

Ray Charles

America Online Biography http://music.aol.com/artist/main.adp?tab=bio&artistid=3876
JFKennedy Center for Performing Arts http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3706&source_type=A
Official Site http://www.raycharles.com/
SwingNet biography http://www.swingmusic.net/Ray_Charles_Biography.html

Frederick Douglass

About.com http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/frederickdouglass1/a/bio_douglass_f.htm

Bright Moments

http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/nfdougla.html

Gale group (may be too hard)

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/douglass_f.htm

National Historic Site

http://www.nps.gov/frdo/freddoug.html

Thinkquest with his early life

http://library.thinkquest.org/3337/fdoug1.html

Charles Drew

Gale Group http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/drew_c.htm
Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/Drew.cfm
University of Houston http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi154.htm

Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson's Site http://www.altheagibson.com/biographical.htm
International Tennis Hall of Fame http://www.tennisfame.org/enshrinees/althea_gibson.html
Sports Illustrated For Kids http://www.sikids.com/news/blackhistorymonth/althea.html
Women's History from About.Com http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_gibson_althea.htm

Alex Haley

Gale Group http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/haley_a.htm
Kunta Kinte biography http://www.kintehaley.org/rootshaleybio.html
Literature Resource Site from Finland http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahaley.htm

Matthew Henson

Memorial Site http://www.matthewhenson.com/index2.htm
National Geographic photo gallery http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/photogalleries/henson/
SJSU Virtual Museum http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/henson.html
Virtual Exploration Society http://www.unmuseum.org/henson.htm

Langston Hughes

About.com http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/frederickdouglass1/a/bio_douglass_f.htm
Teacher Resource File ***lots of links to sites http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughs

Jessie Jackson

Gale Group bio http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/jackson_j.htm
PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/jesse/
Speech (**audio file) http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/americanradioworks/features/sayitplain/jjackson.ram

Thurgood Marshall

About.Com http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/thurgoodmarshall/a/bio_marshall_t.htm
America Online Black Voices http://blackvoices.aol.com/black_news/black_history_month/articlecanvas?id=20060117162509990004
George Mason University Center for History and New Media http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshall.htm
Timeline of African American History in Maryland http://library.thinkquest.org/3337/tmarsh.html

Garrett Morgan

About.Com http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgas_mask.htm
Department of Transportation http://education.dot.gov/aboutmorgan.html
South Kensington Science Museum http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/garret-morgan/index.asp

Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens Foundation http://www.jesse-owens.org/about1.html
Jesse Owens site http://www.jesseowens.com/index.php
Sports Illustrated For Kids http://www.sikids.com/news/blackhistorymonth/jesse.html
Whitehouse for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/jesseowens.html

Satchel Paige

Black Baseball's Negro League http://www.blackbaseball.com/players/paige.htm
Hickok Sports http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/paigesatchel.shtml
National Baseball Hall of Fame http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/paige_satchel.htm

Colin Powell

About.Com http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/colinpowell/p/bio_powellcolin.htm
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
Whitehouse biography http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/powell-bio.html

Jackie Robinson

About.com http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jackierobinson/p/bio_robinson_j.htm
About.com photos http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blphotos_jackierobinson_index.htm
Jackie Robinson foundation http://www.jackierobinson.org/
National Baseball hall of fame http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/robinson_jackie.htm
Sports Illustrated For Kids http://www.sikids.com/news/blackhistorymonth/jackie.html
Whitehouse for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/jackierobinson.html

Wilma Rudolph

ESPN http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016444.html
Whitehouse for Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/wilmarudolph.html
Women in History http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/rudo-wil.htm

Clarence Thomas

Cornell Law School http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/thomas.bio.html
Speech American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. - February 13, 2001 (**audio) http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/americanradioworks/features/sayitplain/cthomas.ram
Supreme Court History http://www.supremecourthistory.org/myweb/justice/thomas.htm

Nat Turner

Africa Within http://www.africawithin.com/bios/nat_turner.htm
African American History About.Com http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa040201a.htm
Experts Archive Questions from About http://experts.about.com/e/n/na/Nat_Turner.htm

Soujourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)

About.Com http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/sojournertruth/a/bio_truth_s.htm
Women's History About.Com http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/bltruth.htm
Women in History http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm

Madame C.J. Walker

Africa Within http://www.africawithin.com/bios/cj_walker.htm
Walker's official site http://www.madamecjwalker.org
Women in History http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/walk-mad.htm

Booker T. Washington

Africa Within http://www.africawithin.com/bios/booker/booker_bio1.htm

Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia - October 18, 1895 (**audio file)

http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/americanradioworks/features/sayitplain/btwashington.ram

Library Thinkquest (may be a little difficult)

http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Washngtn.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0109

Wikipedia (use for specifics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

Malcolm X

All About Malcolm (has good family info - may be too hard)

http://www.brothermalcolm.net/

Encyclopedia Brittanica

http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=50305

Official Website's biography

http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/about/bio.htm

Andrew Young

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies http://aysps.gsu.edu/people/YoungA.htm
Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1395
History Makers http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1210
TeacherLink http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/andrewyo.html#Background

 

Fourth Grade Links

Remember to use 3 out of the 4 acceptable sites