Celebrate Black History Month by exploring resources featuring some of the many African Americans who transformed constitutional history—including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Robert Smalls, and Sojourner Truth—to better understand the long fight for freedom and equality. Learn more

Three Ways To Celebrate

Join A Virtual Museum Experience

Friday, February 2 | Noon ET

Live ASL Interpretation Available

This Friday, explore the lives of four American women—Harriet Robinson Scott, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe—who confronted slavery through literature, lawsuits, and direct action in their efforts to free themselves and others from bondage.

Live virtual museum programs bring fun and enriching content to your classrooms to enhance your students’ learning experience. Interact in real time with our museum educators as they explore popular topics from constitutional history. View the full schedule and register

Bring a Scholar to Class



Scholar Exchanges give students the opportunity to discuss constitutional topics with a lawyer, judge, or constitutional scholar and their peers from around the country. Join us in February for special Scholar Exchange topics including Landmark Civil Rights Cases, Civil War and Reconstruction, the 14th Amendment, and more.

Sessions are free and open to classes ranging from elementary school to college.

Sessions are scheduled at times that work for teachers and their students.

Artifact Spotlight: Black History Month

Run time: 2 minutes

In this Artifact Spotlight, a museum educator explores a letter written in 1913 by Nellie M. Quander of Howard University and one of the founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc. sorority. In the letter, Quander asks Alice Paul about opportunities for Black women to participate in a suffrage procession in Washington, D.C.

Professional Learning for Educators

The 14th Amendment and the Battle for Freedom and Equality Featuring Valinda Littlefield

Wednesday, February 21 | 6:30–8 p.m. ET

During this session, participants will explore the 14th Amendment and the battles for equality in America. Educators will examine the clauses of the 14th Amendment and the battle over their meaning from Reconstruction to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges. We will also explore America’s first and second civil rights movements, the Constitution and women, and modern interpretations of the 14th Amendment. Professor Valinda Littlefield of the University of South Carolina joins us. 

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