African American Heroes Project

Dear Parents;

As February fast approaches, it is time for us to honor and celebrate African American History Month. Your child will be responsible for completing a biography project on a famous person of African American heritage. Enclosed, you will find the directions for the project. Please note the due dates next to each section of the project. It is necessary that your child spend time on this project at home and/or after school as there will only be a limited time for independent study on this project during the school day.
I am available any day after school by appointment. Your child must stay after to complete the timeline and PowerPoint presentation. Please review the contents of this packet with your child and complete the contract below. Please return the contract tomorrow, February 3, 2010.


Thank you for your continued support and participation.

Sincerely,

Miss O’Brien

Be sure to check out our WIKI site for more resources and information.

SOME GREAT WEBSITES to help you with your research are:
Biography.com http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/index.jsp
History Channel http://www.history.com/
Time for Kids
Scholastic News http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/?ESP=Teachers/ib/20100129/awa/th_underground_railroad_3_5///thlp/tout////
http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/blackhistorymonth/
Black History Month Links
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
How to Celebrate the Life of Malcolm X
How to Create a Civil Rights Lesson Plan
How to Visit the Anacostia Community Museum
How to Celebrate the Life of Harriet Tubman
How to Visit the African-American Civil War Memorial and Museum
Black History Month Resources
http://www.ed.gov/free/bhm.html
Black History Month for Kids
http://www.sikids.com/news/blackhistory/index.html
From Sports Ilustrated for Kids
Black History Links from Kids Domain
http://www.kidsdomain.com/kids/links/Black_History.html
Time for Kids: Black History Month
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,97217,00.html
Surfing the Net With Kids: Black History Month
http://www.surfnetkids.com/blackhistory.htm
Black History Month from Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/
Annie's Black History Links Page
http://www.annieshomepage.com/blackhistorylinks.html
Black History Month
http://web.knoxnews.com/web/blackhistory/interactive.shtml
Interactive Site
African American Coloring Book
Celebrating Black History
http://www.familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,1-4818,00.html?yah From Family Education
Black History Month
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/black_history_month.htm
From DLTK for Kids
Interviewing Immigrants (includes African Americans).
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/tpl-sweethomechicago/
Cathay Williams: Female Buffalo Soldier
http://www.buffalosoldier.net/CathayWilliamsFemaleBuffaloSoldierWithDocuments.htm
Cathay Williams or William Cathay (Cathey)
Private, Thirty-eighth U.S. Infantry 1866-1868
The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buf4.html
Daily Life on the Western Frontier
Powerful Days in Black and White
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml
Images by Charles Moore (Eastman Kodak)
Photography: African-American Cowboys
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/tarver/
By Ron Tarver
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BLACK HISTORY RESOURCES
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"African-American Mosaic"is a guide for studying black history & culture. Topics include colonization & Liberia, abolitionists & slavery,
western migration & homesteading, Chicago & Nicodemus(Kansas), & ex-slave narratives. (LOC)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

"Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from Federal Writers' Project" presents 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery & 500 photographs of former slaves. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

"Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site" features two schools that played a role in the 1954 Supreme Court decision stating that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." (NPS)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ka1.htm

"The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925" traces how Southern African-Americans experienced Protestant Christianity & trans- formed it into the central institution of community life. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/ncuhtml/csbchome.html

"The Frederick Douglass Papers" presents the papers of the 19th-century African-American
abolitionist who escaped from slavery & risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, & publisher. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

"Jackie Robinson: Beyond the Playing Field"
includes telegrams, letters, & photos showing how Robinson,the first African American to play in the big leagues in the 20th century, pressed for civil rights. (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/jackie_robinson.html

"Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site" features Atlanta's Auburn Avenue, the neighborhood where King was raised & which became the center of African American life
in Atlanta between 1910 & 1930. (NPS)
http://www.nps.gov/malu/

"Photographs of the 369th Infantry & African Americans During WWI" tells the story of the "Harlem Hellfighters," an all-black regiment that was one of the most highly decorated regiments during a time of segregation in the Army & other parts of society. (NARA)

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/wwi_369th_infantry/wwi_369th_infantry.html

"Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey"reflects on the life & legacy of this mediator & U.N. diplomat who was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. (NEH)
http://www.pbs.org/ralphbunche/