The Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History site presents a vast array of articles, images, audio clips, film clips and multimedia presentations tracing two millennia of black history pinpointing the central people, places, topics and events covered in black history.
www.blackhistory.eb.com/

This educational and informational site celebrates Black History Month with a collection of features, biographies, reference links, civil rights timeline, quizzes and much more.
www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html

This educational children's site provides links that are prechecked for content to great sites from all over the web for kids to explore. It includes links to Black History Month games, biographies, study resources, e cards, crafts, interactive experiences, activities, poems, quizzes and much more!www.kidsdomain.com/kids/links/bh.html

Biography.com celebrates Black History Month by highlighting heroes from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Tiger Woods and pays tribute to inspirational African Americans from the past as well as those who will continue to make history well into the future.
www.biography.com/blackhistory/

Don't Say Ain't
by Irene Smalls
illustrated by Colin Bootman

"Engaging, richly hued oil illustrations effectively capture the characters and setting...New York City schools were first integrated in 1957, and Smalls portrays the advantages open to a select group of students with subtlety. This perceptive and useful title can be used to generate discussion on a variety of issues."
                          -School Library Journal

Brown vs. the Board of Education
This historic ruling required the desegregation of schools in the United States.
www.nps.gov/brvb/
www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html
www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-16-brown-50-scotus_x.htm

The Underground Railroad
For the many African Americans who lived in the Slave States prior to and during the American Civil War, the Underground Railroad provided them the opportunity and assistance for escaping slavery and finding freedom.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html
http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm

The Lunch Counter Sit-ins
The Greensboro sit-ins of February 1960 started as a group of black students who simply wanted to be served at a Woolworth's lunch counter and ended up launching a new chapter in the Civil Rights Movement.
www.sitins.com
www.greensboro.com/sitins/activists.htm