Center for Urban Education Resources

Challenges Across Centuries: Historical Frames

Concise Summaries: Major Challenges in African American History

Individual Determination

Confronting Challenges

Decision Points

Legacies

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.

 

Speeches

 

Realistic Fiction

 

Poems

 

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.

 

Visual Art Connections

 

 

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

http://asalh.org/index.html

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library

http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg

 

More Resources

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.