On this page, we offer links to curriculum guides, databases, suggested readings and other resources intended to support the work of K-12 educators who want to incorporate African American history, culture and experience into their lesson plans. If you would like to recommend a resource to share, please send it to us by clicking here.
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Online Resources for K-12 Educators: New Jersey-Focused
- African Americans in Westfield, New Jersey from 1720-2020
- A Survey of Social Studies in New Jersey Schools
- Black Power! 19th Century Newark Map
- Crossroads of the American Revolution®: Meet Your Revolutionary Neighbors
- Curriculum on Timbuctoo and Antebellum Free Black Communities
- New Jersey African American History Curriculum Guide: Grade 9-12 (2003)
- New Jersey Amistad Commission
- New Jersey: A State Divided on Freedom
- New Jersey Historical Commission, Materials for Teachers
- New Jersey Historical Commission, “New Jersey, The Last Northern State to End Slavery”
- Princeton & Slavery
- Slavery in New Jersey: A Troubled History
- Timbuctoo and the First Emancipation of the Early-Nineteenth Century
- Timbuctoo Historical Society
- Wendel White Projects
Online Resources for K-12 Educators: National Resources
- 10 Databases for Researching Enslaved Ancestors
- The 1619 Project Curriculum
- African American Archive of Columbia County
- African American Registry®
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938
- Civics 101
- Civil Rights Digital Library
- Colored Conventions Project
- Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
- Facing History and Ourselves
- How Women Lost the Vote
- The History of Racist Violence in the United States: Resources from the American Historical Association
- Learning Policy Institute District Advancing Racial Equity (DARE) Tool
- The Most Important Milestones in Black History You Need to Know About
- National Council for the Social Studies (issue on teaching African American history)
- National Council for the Social Studies Resources for Teaching About Racism, Anti-racism and Human Rights
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal
- The New York Times 1619 Project
- Northeast Slavery Records Index
- Past History
- PBS U.S. History Plans
- People Not Property: Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North
- Racial Equity Tools
- Racial Justice in Education
- Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Teaching Tolerance
- Teaching While White
- U.S. Freedman’s Bureau Collection
- The Washington Post Database of Slaveholding Members of Congress
- Zinn Education Project
Maps
- 1860s Slavery Map of the United States
- Forced Migration of Enslaved People of the United States 1810 to 1860
- Red Record of Lynching Map Analysis
- Slave Voyages
Other Resources
- “Black History is Not American History: Toward a Framework of Black Historical Consciousness”, by LaGarrett J. King, Social Education 84(6), pp. 335-341, 2020 National Council for the Social Studies
- On Juneteenth, by Annette-Gordon Reed
- Sankofa Collaborative Book List with Recommendations from Phillip Easton and Others, April 2020