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Release Date: 2011-02-01

Updated and expanded set marks watershed events, pioneers, achievements, and leaders from the 1600s to present. Four-panel design spans 12 1/2 ft. Panels displayed horizontally, vertically, or individually. Includes a Discovery Guide filled with information and activities.

This collection is a teacher's gold mine! It's a teaching tool and a mini-musical! African American History: The Inventors promises to be the first in a series of musical collections celebrating African American historical figures. Chronicling the lives and achievements of four famous African American inventors, this collection contains songs that may be used individually or together as a mini-musical any time of year. There are learning activities and games for each inventor, and the rhyming narratives...

An Italian immigrant says, "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things: first, the streets weren't paved with gold; second, they weren't paved at all; and third, I was expected to pave them." Against all odds - a new language, new customs, and the ethnic slurs and catcalls of prejudice - Italian Americans paved the streets, rolled the cigars, sewed the clothes, cooked the meals, and did all manner of backbreaking work to build a new...

How Africans came to America. Black life before - and after - Civil Rights. How slaves fought to be free. The evolution of African American culture. Great accomplishments by black citizens. What it means to be black in America today.

African American History Month in Song! is especially designed to enhance celebration programs, library and museum collections, general music programs and regular classroom learning activities. The book contains thirteen original songs in honor of thirteen notable African Americans in history from the colonial period to modern times. They include Phillis Wheatley, Nat Turner, Elijah McCoy, Mary Terrell, Mary M. Bethune, Ralph Bunche, Mahilia Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Leontyne Price, Martin Luther...

Product Description Display important figures and topics in African American history. Seven-poster pack includes Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, George Washington Carver, the Tuskegee Airmen, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Events. Posters feature activities on backsides. 17" x 22".

This is the third installment of the musical collections celebrating African American historical figures. Chronicling the lives and achievements of four famous African American musicians, this collection contains songs that may be used individually or performed together with the rhyming script, creating a mini-musical. Along with reproducible parts, there are learning activities and games for each musician, and with the rhyming narratives that precede each song, memorizing facts becomes a snap! The...

The arrival of the first African slaves in Jamestown, the Missouri Compromise, the Emancipation Proclamation--these and many other important events in the history of African Americans are presented on this informative time line. Package includes 4 posters, 4 reproducible activity sheets, and a teacher's guide.

Description Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African American culture on the American cultural landscape. Covering African American history in all areas...

For parents and teachers interested in fostering cultural awareness among children of all races, this book includes more than 70 hands-on activities, songs, and games that teach kids about the people, experiences, and events that shaped African American history. Along the way they will learn about inspiring African American artists, inventors, and heroes like Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, and Louis Armstrong.

Give voice to pivotal personalities of the past and the events surrounding them with this history series! Along with biographical sketches of selected historical figures, each book also provides a time line to help students make connections between the lives of the featured Americans and the other events of their time periods. Excellent for use as full unit or as a supplement to the curriculum, each book supports No Child Left Behind and correlates with the standards set by the National Council for...

Through a combination of full-color maps, charts, illustrations, and exploratory essays, The Routledge Atlas of African American History traces the arduous struggles African Americans have endured and the momentous victories they have won in their 400 years in North America. Situating African Americans in the center of their own history, and illuminating their contributions to the political, economic, cultural, and social history of the United States, spreads feature such diverse topics as:

The eternal saga of man's inhumanity to man is introduced to teen readers in this anthology of ten excerpts from slave narratives. Each excerpt relates the childhood and teen years of former slaves such as Harriet Jacobs, author of the famous narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Frederick Douglass, the heroic leader who became a spokesperson for African Americans; Elizabeth Keckley, a skilled seamstress who eventually worked in the White House for Mary Todd Lincoln; and Olaudah Equiano...