How Are You Celebrating Black History Month?

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What do the words "freedom, equality, justice, and prosperity" mean to you? How can you live a life of purpose like Rosa Parks did?

These are some of the questions we challenge your students to explore through our American Portraits narrative and lessons about the life of Rosa Parks.

How are you and your students celebrating African American History Month? If you are one of the first five teachers to share your lessons and activities on social media with the hashtag #BlackHistoryBRI, we will send you and your students some cool swag! We will notify the winners by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, February 14.

This Homework Help video provides a general overview of the experience of African Americans during the pivotal years of the Gilded Age, which lasted from the 1860s to the early 1900s. Learn more with our lessons and activities on The Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen

By the late 1930s, it was becoming clear that war was coming in Europe, and the United States began making plans to recruit and train more pilots. In 1938, Congress established the Civilian Pilot Training Program to provide flight instruction to college students. At first, the plan only considered white students. However, in April of 1939, Congress amended the law to include blacks as well. One of the schools selected for the training program was the Tuskegee Institute, an all-black college in Alabama…Read More.

Diversity as an American Value

The progress made toward liberty and equality for all in the last 200+ years in the United States would not have occurred without the courage and perseverance of remarkable African Americans. These are distinctly American values, and this is why we agree that African American History IS American History. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, WEB DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were among the brave African American leaders who fought against slavery and segregation for liberty and civil rights...Read More.

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