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Local Events |
| The African American Museum in Philadelphia - Black History Exhibits |
| Bethel AME Living the Experience - Lancaster, PA - dramatic performances at Bethel AME Church |
| National Great Blacks in Wax Museum - located in Baltimore, Maryland this wax museum committed solely to the study and preservation of African American history. |
| The Philadelphia Doll Museum is located on the 2200 block of North Broad Street along the Avenue of the Arts, has over 300 black dolls in its collection. The Museum provides a resource library of information and documentation which highlights the story of how black people have been perceived throughout world history. The collection includes African, Europeans, American Folk Art dolls, the renowned Roberta Bell Doll Collection, American and internationally manufactured dolls and more. |
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Web Links |
| A Deeper Shade of Black - a fascinating home for studies of African-American culture |
| African American Book List - National Education Association has released a comprehensive reading list of 100 titles that celebrate African American heritage, tradition, and achievement. |
| African-Americans In History - a set of short biographies for some of the most important historical figures |
| The African-American Mosaic - a Library of Congress exhibit dealing with 500 years of African-American history |
| The African American Web Connection - an African American cyber gateway |
| African American Women Writers - the NY Public Library digital collection |
| Africans in America - examines the economic and intellectual foundations of slavery in America and the global economy that prospered from it. And it reveals how the presence of African people and their struggle for freedom transformed America |
| Black History Month - Infoplease has a page of links to informative sites about African American history. |
| Black History Month Page - WGAL TV in Lancaster posts links and online quizzes about black history. |
| Activities from Thomson Gale's Black History Month Resource Book can make Black History Month more meaningful. The activities are arranged in general age categories, but many of them can be used for all age groups. |
| Culture and Change Black History in America - Meet famous African Americans, listen to jazz music, publish your own writing, and explore history with our interactive timeline. |
| Enchanted Learning African American History - lots of information and activities for children |
| Exploring Amistad - This site recounts the 1839 rebellion of African slaves who commandeered their captors’ ship off the Cuban coast, stood trial before the U.S. Supreme Court, and later returned to Africa. |
| Family Education Network - During February, celebrate Black History Month and spend some extra time learning about the extraordinary accomplishments of African-Americans. Overcoming enormous obstacles, these outstanding individuals made remarkable contributions to our everyday world. |
| From Columbia to Christiana - Lancaster County African American History during the 18th and 19th century |
| The History Channel and Biography.com list the names famous African Americans and links to their biographies. |
| NAACP web site |
| N'BONYE DANCE and DRUM ENSEMBLE - customized African dance instruction and performances. |
| National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Find current news, recent historical research, video clips, links and other resources on this site maintained by a museum and education center in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| National Geographic Online presents The Underground Railroad Project - The history of slavery with pictures and information. |
| Pearson Education National Black History Month - suggests titles of books for all grade levels. |
| Race Matters Consortium - is a diverse group of child welfare experts representing research, policy, administration, practice, and advocacy , who first joined together in 1999 to systematically examine disproportional representation of individuals of different races and ethnic groups in the child welfare system. |
| Slavery and the Making of America - a PBS four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. |
| Underground Railroad Tutorial - Lancaster PA 4th grade class history project |
| The William Still Underground Railroad Foundation, Inc. - Find more information about William Still, a leader of the Underground Railroad. |
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