Classroom Materials on the History of the African American Freedom Movement

Please note that this is not a complete list of our materials related to African American history or Black history. Rather, this is a list of lessons and assessments with a focus on African American activism. Materials with an asterisk (*) are available to download in Spanish.

Reading Like a Historian Lessons

• Freedom’s Journal*
• Biddy Mason
• Emancipation*
• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln*
• Washington vs. DuBois
• Marcus Garvey
• The Liberator and the Black Press
• Civil Rights Movement Photos*
• NAACP Letters*
• Little Rock Nine*
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights*
• The Black Power Movement

History Assessments of Thinking (HATs)

• UNIA vs. NAACP
• Civil Rights Movement in Context
• Olympics Protest
• Little Rock
• Greensboro Sit-Ins
• March on Washington
• Kathleen Cleaver Interview
• Nashville Riot