In preparation for Black History Month, C-SPAN Classroom has aggregated a number of our resources relating to the history of African-Americans in the United States. Explore our C-SPAN Classroom Lessons and Bell Ringers to learn more about this history.
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Black History Month
- Bell Ringer: The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage (6:27)
- Bell Ringer: The Domestic Slave Trade (3:35)
- Bell Ringer: The Nat Turner Rebellion (5:50)
- Bell Ringer: Solomon Northup: 12 Years a Slave (8:24)
- Bell Ringer: Harriet Tubman during the Civil War (2:33)
- Bell Ringer: The Freedman’s Bureau (6:45)
- Bell Ringer: African Americans in WWI (10:03)
- Bell Ringer: W E B Du Bois (5:14)
- Bell Ringer: Segregated Societies (5:06)
- Bell Ringer: The Tuskegee Airmen (6:54)
- Bell Ringer: Important Figures in the Early Fight for Civil Rights (4:21)
- Bell Ringer: Jackie Robinson’s Impact on the Civil Rights Movement (1:57)
- Bell Ringer: Remembering Brown v Board of Education (3:29)
- Bell Ringer: The 1963 March on Washington (11:59)
- Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of Fred Shuttlesworth (6:59)
- Bell Ringer: Photographs of the Black Panther Party (6:45)
- Lesson Plan: Dred Scott v Sandford (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Underground Railroad (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Great Migration (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Langston Hughes (5 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Booker T. Washington (4 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: A Historical Overview of Segregation (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Brown v Board of Education (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement (15 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail (7 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The 1967 Detroit Riots (8 Clips)
