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    National Endowment for the HumanitiesBlack History Month Resources

    Award-Winning Documentaries:

    Created Equalis a set of four films designed to cinematically recreate the civil rightsmovement in America. The four films,The Abolitionists,Slavery By Another Name,Freedom

    Riders,andThe Loving Story,can be usedintandem with several community and classroomprograms. A fifth installment of Created Equal,Freedom Summer,was released in June2014. Simply click on the title links and start watching.

    Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Raceshows how Tom Bradley broughttogether people of various races and ethnicities as the mayor of Los Angeles, to better the city.

    August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Standfollows August Wilsons unprecedentedplaywriting career, from the founding of the Black Horizon Theater in Pittsburgh to hisseminal 10-play cycle chronicling each decade of the 20th-century African-Americanexperience.

    Resources for Public Forums and Discussions:

    Use theToolkit for Facilitated Discussionfor setting up your own program drawn from theCreated Equal series.

    Check out Black History Month Podcasts available online fromBackStory with the AmericanHistory GuysandThe Kitchen Sistersprograms.

    Discover early newspaper coverage of historical events at the time they happened with theNEH-funded databaseChronicling America.

    Lesson Plans to Share with Teachers:

    EDSITEment,an NEH-supported lesson plan website, is home to close to 100 lesson plans onAfrican-American history and literature from colonial America to the present day. A few classroomresources are listed below and could be shared with teachers in your community:

    Assess students historicalunderstanding with theThink Fast! About the Pastapp;

    Track the journeys of trans-Atlanticslave ship voyages;

    Honor the heroes ofThe Massachusetts 54th Regiment;

    Follow the fall of slavery during the Civil War withVisualizing Emancipation;

    Study theRise and Fall of Jim Crow;

    TraceThurgood Marshallspath from lawyer to justice;

    Examine Martin Luther Kings famous essayIn Defense of Non Violent Resistance.

    Scheduled Events and Exhibitions

    The NEH-funded exhibition,To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade,is currentlytraveling the country. It explores the effects of the slave trade on African American families,especially those enslaved from Richmond.

    Upcoming lectures, symposiums, and festivals can be found on theNEH website,on NEHscircular of upcoming exhibitions,and on NEHsFacebookandTwitter.

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