Black History Topics & Historic Events

• African-American History Month Topics (Awesome Stories)
• INTERACTIVE TIMELINE: Black History Milestones - History Channel
• VIDEO: Origins of Back History Month (History Channel - 3:01 minutes)
• VIDEO: Origins of Slavery in America (History Channel - 3:01 minutes)
• VIDEO: The Abolitionist Movement (History Channel - 3:26 minutes)
• VIDEO: Separate But Not Equal (History Channel - 2:21 minutes)
• VIDEO: Civil Rights Act of 1964 (History Channel - 2:57 minutes)
• EBOOK: The Road to Civil Rights (free Ipad download) - multi-touch textbook

Famous African-Americans

Frederick Douglas

Martin Luther King Jr.

• VIDEO: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (History Channel - 3:22 minutes)
• VIDEO: "I Have a Dream Speech" (17:29 minutes)
• MP3: "I Have a Dream Speech" (American Rhetoric - mp3, full text)
• MP3: "I Have a Dream Speech" 
• HANDOUT: "I Have a Dream" Speech (PDF)
• ARTICLE: Speech Analysis - "I Have a Dream"
• VIDEO: President Obama Speech Marks the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington (28:11 minutes) - given on Aug 28, 2013
• SCHOLASTIC NEWS: He Had a Dream
• HANDOUT: Biography on Martin Luther King Jr.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Biography
• HANDOUT: MLK Timeline-Biography
• Chronology of King's Life
• Dr. King's Speeches & Sermons

Rosa Parks

Soujourner Truth

Harriet Tubman