Black History Month

• 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/
  

Conducting an Interview  

Before the Interview

1. Make a list of questions you plan to ask. What would you like to learn about? Let's say your subject is the assassination of Martin Luther King. You could ask the person you are interviewing where they were when they heard the news. Who were they with? How did they feel? What concerns did they have for the country?
   
2. Ask or call the person to set up a time and place for the interview. If you don't know the person yet, bring a parent along or do the interview over the phone.
   
3. Get together everything you will need to do the interview. Items might include a tape recorder, paper, and pens or pencils.
   
   

During the Interview

1. If the person gives you permission, tape record the interview. If you tape record it, label the tape with the date and the name of the person. Even if you tape the interview, you should take notes so that you'll remember important points.
   
2. At the beginning of the interview, ask when and where the person was born. This will save you from having to backtrack and figure out dates later.
   
3. Don't interrupt or correct the person you are talking to. People sometimes remember things wrong. That's okay-you can check dates and facts later. The important thing is to hear about the person's impressions and feelings.
   
   
4. Listen carefully. Something the person says may inspire you to ask a question you hadn't planned. For example, let's say that the person you are talking to mentions that he/she went to a segregated school or remembers when Martin Luther King was assasinated. You might ask what impact did that part of history have on your life? How did you feel?
   
5. Let the person have plenty of time to talk. But if they start to ramble, try to get them back on the subject by asking one of the questions you brought along.
   

After the Interview

1. Thank your subject at the end of your meeting. Afterward, write a thank-you note.
   
2. If you recorded the interview, listen to the tape. Write down important points and interesting quotations.
   
3. Look back over the questions your prepared before the interview. Did the interview help to answer them? If you are going to do an oral report, think about how you will present your information. You might talk about what you had hoped to get out of the interview, and what you learned from it that was unexpected. You could also talk about the difference between reading a book and getting a personal view.
   

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