Enrichment Materials: African-American Voices
These enrichment materials build upon concepts introduced in US History and Advanced US History courses. They incorporate and link perspectives of African-Americans throughout our nation's history.
A look into African-American involvement in the Revolutionary War
African-Americans and the Revolution
African Americans in the Early Republic
Letter to Philadelphia’s Freedom Journal by a formerly enslaved man
Interview with a Negro cowboy, Bones Hooks, from the period of westward expansion
Archive of abolitionist Black voices during the Antebellum period
Slave narratives and photographs
Document explaining the relationship between slaves and the American judicial system
Black Republican leader requesting protection during era of Reconstruction
Codes against African-Americans in the South after the abolition of slavery
African Americans in the Progressive Era (Gilded Age)
Oral-history interviews discussing life in the Jim Crow South
Lynching from the POV of a Black woman, Mary Church Terrell
“Effect of Imperialism upon the Negro Race”
A collection of primary sources regarding African American involvement in WW1
"African American Women and the 19th Amendment"
Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s
African American stories in WWII
“The Negro in America Today,” 1950s
Black Natchez, a digital collection meant to highlight the registration of Black voters in the South
BAD Times, a student-led newspaper during the Civil Rights Movement
Alex Haley’s ‘The Malcolm X I Knew’
Black Vietnam Veterans discussing the injustices they faced during and after the war
African Americans in the Vietnam War