Teacher’s Resources

Curriculum

Black History databases and educational resources:

Black History databases and educational resources:

BlackPast's Searchable database of all major events in African American history

Black History databases and educational resources:

BlackPast's Database of Racial Violence in the US since 1660

Black History databases and educational resources:

Zinn Education Project’s Database of African-American History

Black History databases and educational resources:

Crash Course: Black American History series (YouTube)

Black History databases and educational resources:

The 1619 Project

Primary Source documents from Black History

Primary Source documents from Black History:

Frederick Douglas’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Primary Source documents from Black History:

Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman?”

Primary Source documents from Black History:

W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk

Primary Source documents from Black History:

Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again” and “I, Too”

Primary Source documents from Black History:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Primary Source documents from Black History:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Why We Can’t Wait”

Primary Source documents from Black History:

Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” (recording of speech)”

Primary Source documents from Black History:

Angela Davis’s “The Gates of Freedom”

Black Resistance

  • Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663)

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  • Stono Rebellion of 1739

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  • A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon (1760)

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  • Enslaved poets: Lucy Terry

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  • Enslaved poets: Jupiter Hammon

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  • Enslaved poets: Phillis Wheatley

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  • Revolutionary petitions for freedom: Prince Hall

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  • Revolutionary petitions for freedom: Elizabeth “Mum Bet” Freeman

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  • Paul Cuffe, businessman and abolitionist

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  • The Ethiopian Regiment (in the American Revolution)

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  • The Ethiopian Regiment (in the American Revolution)

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  • Gabriel’s Rebellion (1800)

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  • Denmark Vesey’s rebellion of 1822

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  • Nat Turner’s rebellion of 1831

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  • Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835-1838)

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  • La Amistad (1839)

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  • Benjamin Roberts’ desegregation lawsuit (1848)

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  • James Meredith’s 220-mile “March Against Fear” (1966)

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Additional Resources - Black Resistance

  • Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

  • New York Slave Revolt of 1712

  • Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, Florida (1738)

  • Richard Allen / African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church

  • David Walker’s "An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" (1829)

  • Female Anti-Slavery Society (1832)

  • Creole case (1841) *”Most successful slave revolt in US history*

  • 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation

  • Reverend Henry Highland Garnet’s "Address to the Slaves" (1843)

  • Robert Smalls’ escape on The Planter (1862)

  • Juneteenth Celebration (1865)

  • Ida B. Wells publishes "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law and in All Its Phases" (1892)

  • Booker T. Washington founds the National Negro Business League (1900)

  • W.E.B. Du Bois publishes "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903)

  • Houston Mutiny (1917)

  • National Council of Negro Women (1935)

  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded (1942)

  • NAACP presents An Appeal to the World, a petition on racism to the UN (1947)

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference formed (1958)

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed (1960)

  • Watts Uprising (1965)

  • Black Panther Party formed (1966)

  • Dr. King’s criticizes the Vietnam War in "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" (1967)

  • Poor Peoples’ Campaign (1968)

  • Attica Prison Riot (1971)

  • People United to Save Humanity (PUSH) founded by Jesse Jackson (1971)

  • Million Man March (1995)

Allies and Antiracists in History

  • 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery

  • Reverend Samuel Thomas, educator

  • Samuel Sewall’s "The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial" (1700)

  • The Darien Antislavery Petition of 1739

  • Anthony Benezet, educator

  • Female Anti-Slavery Society (1832)

  • Elias Neau, educator

  • George Boxley Rebellion (1815)

  • Levi Coffin, Underground Railroad (1815)

  • William Lloyd Garrison, "The Liberator" (1831)

  • The Georgia Infirmary (1832)

  • John Brown / Raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859)

Systemic Racism (laws, economics, social norms)

  • First enslaved Africans at Jamestown (1619) / William Tucker (1624)

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  • Slave codes (Search this database under the subject “Racial Restrictions”) ● Massachusetts Body of Liberties ● Fugitive Slave Laws ● 1662 Virginia slave code on hereditary status of slavery

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  • Black slaveowners / Anthony Johnson (1600-1670)

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  • American Colonization Society / Liberia

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  • Black Codes (1865-1867)

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  • Wilmington Coup (1898)

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  • Tulsa Massacre (1921)

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  • Gag Rule in Congress (1836)

  • First Louisiana Native Guard, only all-Black regiment fighting for the Confederacy

  • Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932-1972)

  • Police brutality (Watts Riot, Newark Riots of 1967, Detroit Riot of 1967, Fred Hampton, 1980 Miami Riots, Rodney King)

  • Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”

  • War on Drugs

  • Three Strikes Law

White Violence

  • Memphis Riot (1866)

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  • New Orleans Massacre (1866)

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  • Camilla Massacre (1868)

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  • St. Bernard Parish Massacre (1868)

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  • Opelousas Massacre (1868)

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  • Colfax Massacre (1873)

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  • Barbour County Riots (1874)

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  • Vicksburg Massacre (1874)

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  • New LisClinton, Mississippi Massacre (1875)t Item

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  • Hamburg Massacre (1876)

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  • Danville Riot (1883)

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  • Thibodaux Massacre (1887)

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  • Polk County Massacre (1896)

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  • Springfield Massacre (1908)

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  • Slocum Massacre (1910)

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  • Ocoee Massacre (1920)

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  • New Orleans Race Riot (1900)

  • Red Summer of 1919

  • Scottsboro Boys (1931)

  • Detroit Race Riot (1943)

  • Orangeburg Massacre (1968)

  • 1985 MOVE Bombing

  • Murder of James Byrd Jr. (1998)

Leaders/Activists

  • Mathias De Sousa, indentured servant/elected to colonial government Richard Allen (1760-1831)

  • Prince Hall, abolitionist/education advocate (1735-1807)

  • Martin R. Delany, soldier/physician/African nationalist (1812-1885)

  • Henry Highland Garnet, speaker/abolitionist (1815-1882)

  • William Wells Brown, abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian

  • Alexander Crummell (1819-1898)

  • Blanche K. Bruce, Senator (1841-1898)

  • Hiram Revels, Senator (1827-1901)

  • Mary McLeod Bethune, educator/women’s rights/WWII (1875-1955)

  • Fannie Lou Hamer, voting rights activist (1917-1977)

  • Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1903-1971)

  • Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman (1924-2005)

  • Dorothy Height, women’s rights (1912-2010)New List Item

  • Edward W. Brooke, Senator (1919-2015)New List Item

  • Jesse Jackson, politician (born 1941)

  • Benjamin Mays, Baptist minister and civil rights leader

  • Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Congressman

  • Colin Powell, Secretary of State

  • A. Philip Randolph, labor leader

  • Kwame Ture, Pan-African activist

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