Explore African American heritage with the National Park Service

The National Park Service has compiled Our Shared History: African American Heritage, a collection of links to excellent black history resources. Most of the content is provided by the Park Service itself, and includes new information about the Underground Railroad, digital exhibits about Frederick Douglass and the Tuskegee Airmen, transcriptions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s speeches, and guides to historic places of the civil rights movement — including a great page about the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins. The site is well-organized and easy to use, and offers teachers several ways to integrate the material into the classroom: The “Tools for Learning” page includes links to relevant lesson plans, and the “Publications” page provides a trustworthy place for high school students to begin research.