African American History Lesson


The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture provides a useful website for parents and educators to present a truthful account, to their students, of African American history. There are several images with captions and passages for parents, teachers, and students to select for study.

The Family Life and Social Development and Expressive Culture sections are must reads!

Assignments may include:
  • Research family or culture history project
  • Link can be used for a scavenger hunt of facts (use with a Webquest)
  • Compare and contrast writing assignment (use scenes from a film such as Amistad, or another text that speaks to the history of the slave trade, to compare the Transatlantic Slave Trade section of this site) 
*The only thing this site is lacking is audio, however there are assistive programs for computers/laptops, such as a screen reader.
Check it out: Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery

Below you may post your comments on the Lest We Forget site.

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