Center for Urban Education Resources
Challenges Across Centuries: Historical Frames
Concise Summaries: Major Challenges in African American History
Analyze African American History: Read Closely, then Analyze a Claim's Evidence
Develop Literacy and Expand Black History Knowledge comprehensive literacy guide
LITERACY RESOURCES
Biographies and Biography Analyzers
Reading level indicated is based on standard readability formulas; concept levels usually are higher in nonfiction than quantitative measures.
Spirituals and Civil Rights Anthems with Guided Interpretation
aligned with CCSSR5: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
Internet Resource Links
For biographies and first-hand accounts by African Amerians who have shaped history, go to:
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/
NEH has organized resources that connect humanities to the Common Core—
http://www.thinkfinity.org/groups/closer-readings/blog/2013/02/05/black-history-month-and-the-common-core
Resources from the Library of Congress
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
American Memory: The Civil Rights Era
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
You can apply the Center's resources to expand learning about African American history
with any literature or nonfiction and visual materials:
use reading and writing guides to literature and nonfiction about African Americans;
guide students to interpret and create art that represents individuals, eras, and themes of
African American history.