February is Black History Month and many schools have various celebrations to honor the achievements and contributions of African Americans. One of my goals is to broaden students' perspectives when it comes to Black History Month. Many students default to certain well known figures. I encourage them to study lesser known figures to widen their knowledge base. How about Elijah McCoy (from whom we get the term "the real McCoy)? There are a number of great resources out there, here are just a few of them:
(image from africaontheblog.com)
Biography.com has a section devoted to biographies of historic African Americans
here.
Library of Congress' website is geared more towards advanced readers.
Garden of Praise has many biographies for kids, including many African Americans.
History.com's Black History Month page is
here.
Infoplease has many resources that I have used and modified for different ages.
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