Making history as the first African American governor of Massachusetts, dip into a biography featuring Governor Deval Patrick.

This product represents the work of one student from Meadowbrook High School, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Each portrait depicts a figure from black history. The student transformed his graffiti art skills into beautifully detailed and...

A site that encompasses many facets of the life of Malcolm X through interview clips, chapters from an autobiography, photos, a project journal, and more.

A biography of William Goyens, a mixed African American and Cherokee married to a white woman, whose father was a freed slave. Goyens was a Texas businessman who himself participated in the slave trade, and friends with many of the well...

Five primary source materials on African American history: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr., My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Up From...

A collection of lesson plans centered around President Abraham Lincoln that helps students understand some important events in America's history. The purpose of the page is present some major themes in American history from mid...

Read about Kenneth Clark, an influential black educator and psychologist. You can also listen to the interview on which this profile is based.

Read this intoduction that describes and sets the stage for Billy Sunday's meetings with the influential African-American preachers and congregations in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1917. After you have an understanding of the situation,...

An oral history project recording the memories of long-time neighborhood residents of this black community near Houston, Texas.

"If I Had Just Two Wings", an historical novel by Virginia Frances Schwartz, follows the journey of some slaves as they flee to Canada along the Underground Railroad. This teacher's guide includes detailed chapter summaries and project...

Two university professors in New Brunswick have created this web site that explores several historic crimes in New Brunswick and how the justice system handled the cases.