I ally myself with that ... young progressive Negro who believes [he] has the brain, the ability, to carve out his own destiny. William J. Powell, African-American Aviation Pioneer

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Notable African Americans	African-American Astronauts: K-12 TLC Guide: African-American Inventors: K-12 TLC Guide: African-American Poets: K-12 TLC Guide: Congressional Black Caucus: K-12 TLC Guide: African-American Women, Middle Tennessee State University. African-Americans in Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective, Long Island University. Black Saints, Catholic Online. Blackbio.com. A Brief Chronology of African American Literature, San Antonio College. Celebrating Black History Month, The Gale Group. Great African Americans You Should Know, The Black Collegian Online. A Great Day in Harlem. The History Makers. The Internet African American History Challenge. Real African American Heroes. USA Slavery, Spartacus Educational. Voices From the Gaps, American Women Writers of Color, University of Minnesota. Women of Color, Women of Words, Rutgers University.
Notable African Americans A	Abernathy, Ralph: K-12 TLC Guide. Adams, Charles P.: K-12 TLC Guide. Adams, Yolanda: K-12 TLC Guide. Adderley, Cannonball: K-12 TLC Guide. Adderley, Nat, National Public Radio. Ailey, Alvin: K-12 TLC Guide. Allen, Richard, The Internet African American History Challenge. Allensworth, Josephine: K-12 TLC Guide. Anderson, Marian: K-12 TLC Guide. Anderson, Michael P.: K-12 TLC Guide: Angelou, Maya: K-12 TLC Guide. Armstrong, Lil Hardin: K-12 TLC Guide. Armstrong, Daniel Louis 'Satchmo'. Artis, William Ellisworth: K-12 TLC Guide. Ashe, Arthur: K-12 TLC Guide. Attucks, Crispus: K-12 TLC Guide to the Boston Massacre. African American Registry. The Library of Congress. Writer's Almanac. Austin, Lovie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans B	Bailey, Pearl: K-12 TLC Guide. Baker, Ella Josephine: K-12 TLC Guide. Baldwin, James: K-12 TLC Guide. Bambara, Toni Cade: K-12 TLC Guide. Banneker, Benjamin: K-12 TLC Guide. Baraka, Amiri: K-12 TLC Guide. Barthé, Richmond: K-12 TLC Guide. Basie, William (Count): K-12 TLC Guide. Bates, Daisy: K-12 TLC Guide. Bearden, Romare: K-12 TLC Guide. Beavers, Louise: K-12 TLC Guide. Bechet, Sidney: K-12 TLC Guide. Bell, James "Cool Papa": K-12 TLC Guide. Bergen, Flora Batson: K-12 TLC Guide. Bethune, Mary McLeod: K-12 TLC Guide. Biggers, John Thomas: K-12 TLC Guide. Blanchard, Terence: K-12 TLC Guide. Bland, James A.: K-12 TLC Guide. Bluford, Guy: K-12 TLC Guide. Bolden, Charles F., Jr: K-12 TLC Guide. Bolin, Jane: K-12 TLC Guide. Bond, Julian: K-12 TLC Guide. Bontemps, Arna: K-12 TLC Guide. Bouchet, Edward: K-12 TLC Guide. Bowser, Mary Elizabeth: K-12 TLC Guide. Braun, Carol Moseley: K-12 TLC Guide. Brawley, Benjamin: K-12 TLC Guide. Bridges, Ruby: K-12 TLC Guide. Brooke, Edward William: K-12 TLC Guide. Brooks, Gwendolyn: K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth": K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, H. Rap, National Public Radio: 3/21/00 (audio: 3:56). Brown, Hallie Quinn: K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, Jesse LeRoy: K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, Jim: K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, Lillie: K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, Ruth: K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, Sterling Allen: K-12 TLC Guide. Brown, Willa: K-12 TLC Guide. Browne, William Washington: K-12 TLC Guide. Bryan, Ashley: K-12 TLC Guide. Bubbles, John: K-12 TLC Guide. Bunche, Ralph: K-12 TLC Guide. Burleigh, Harry T.: K_12 TLC Guide. Butler, Jerry, National Public Radio: 12/9/00 (9:00).
Notable African Americans C	Cadoria, Sherian: K-12 TLC Guide. Campanella, Roy: K-12 TLC Guide. Canady, Alexa: K-12 TLC Guide. Carroll, Diahann: K-12 TLC Guide. Carson, Benjamin Solomon: K-12 TLC Guide. Carter, Rubin "Hurricane", National Public Radio: 1/7/00 (8:57). Carver, George Washington: K-12 TLC Guide. Cary, Mary Ann Shadd: K-12 TLC Guide. Chamberlain, Wilt: K-12 TLC Guide. Childress, Alice: K-12 TLC Guide. Chisholm, Shirley: K-12 TLC Guide. Clark, Septima Poinsette: K-12 TLC Guide. Cole, Nat "King": K-12 TLC Guide. Cole, Rebecca J.: K-12 TLC Guide. Coleman, Bessie; K-12 TLC Guide Combs, Sean "Puffy": K-12 TLC Guide. Cooper, Floyd: K-12 TLC Guide. Cortez, Jayne: K-12 TLC Guide. Cosby, Bill: K-12 TLC Guide. Crosthwait, David: K-12 TLC Guide. Crummell, Alexander, The Internet African American History Challenge. Cuffe, Paul: K-12 TLC Guide. Cullen, Countee: K-12 TLC Guide. Curtis, Christopher Paul: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans D	Dandridge, Dorothy: K-12 TLC Guide. Davis, Benjamin O.: K-12 TLC Guide. Davis, Benjamin O., Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide. Davis, Ernie: K-12 TLC Guide. Davis, Miles: K-12 TLC Guide. Davis, Ossie: K-12 TLC Guide. Davis, Sammy, Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide. Dee Ruby: K-12 TLC Guide. Delany, Martin R.: K-12 TLC Guide. Domino, Antoine "Fats": K-12 TLC Guide. Dorsey, Thomas Andrew: K-12 TLC Guide. Dodson, Shireen: K-12 TLC Guide. Douglas, Aaron: K-12 TLC Guide. Douglass, Frederick: K-12 TLC Guide. Dove, Rita: K-12 TLC Guide. Draper, Sharon Mills: K-12 TLC Guide. Du Bois, W.E.B.: K-12 TLC Guide. Dunnigan, Alice: K-12 TLC Guide. Dymally, Mervyn M.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans E	Ellington, Duke: K-12 TLC Guide. Ellison, Ralph Waldo: K-12 TLC Guide. Estes, Simon: K-12 TLC Guide. Evers, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans F	Farmer, James: K-12 TLC Guide. Fauset, Jessie Redmon: K-12 TLC Guide. Fax, Elton C.: K-12 TLC Guide. Feelings, Tom: K-12 TLC Guide. Fitzgerald, Ella: K-12 TLC Guide. Fisher, Rudolph: K-12 TLC Guide. Flipper, Henry Ossian: K-12 TLC Guide. Flowers, Theodore "Tiger": K-12 TLC Guide: Forten., James: K-12 TLC Guide. Fortune, T. Thomas: K-12 TLC Guide. Foster, Andrew "Rube": K-12 TLC Guide. Franklin, Aretha: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans G	Gaines, Ernest J.: K-12 TLC Guide. Garnet, Henry Highland, The Internet African American History Challenge. Garvey, Marcus, PBS. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide. Gibson, Althea: K-12 TLC Guide. Giovanni, Nikki, National Public Radio. Goldberg, Whoopi: K-12 TLC Guide. Gordon, Nora: K-12 TLC Guide. Gordy, Berry, Jr: K-12 TLC Guide. Goreleigh, Rex: K-12 TLC Guide. Graves, Denyce: K-12 TLC Guide. Graves, Earl, G. Sr.: K-12 TLC Guide. Gray, William H. III: K-12 TLC Guide. Greenfield, Eloise: K-12 TLC Guide. Gregory, Dick: K-12 TLC Guide. Griffith Joyner, Florence: K-12 TLC Guide. Griffith, Yolanda: K-12 TLC Guide. Grimes, Nikki: K_12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans H	Haley, Alex: K-12 TLC Guide. Hamer, Fannie Lou: K-12 TLC Guide. Hamilton, Virginia: K-12 TLC Guide. Hammon, Jupiter: K-12 TLC Guide. Handy, W.C.: K-12 TLC Guide. Hansberry, Lorraine: K-12 TLC Guide. Hansen, Joyce: K-12 TLC Guide. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins: K-12 TLC Guide. Harrington, Oliver: K-12 TLC Guide. Harris, Bernard: K-12 TLC Guide. Harris, Patricia Roberts: K-12 TLC Guide. Hayes, Isaac: Height, Dorothy: K-12 TLC Guide, Henson, Matthew: K-12 TLC Guide. Hill, Henry Aaron: K-12 TLC Guide. hooks, bell: K-12 TLC Guide. Hooks, Benjamin: K-12 TLC Guide. Hope, Lugenia Burns: K-12 TLC Guide. Houston, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide. Houston, Whitney: K-12 TLC Guide. Hudson, Cheryl Willis: K-12 TLC Guide. Hughes, Langston: K-12 TLC Guide. Hunt, Richard: K-12 TLC Guide. Hunter, Alberta: K-12 TLC Guide. Hunter-Lattany, Kristin: K-12 TLC Guide. Hurston, Zora Neale: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans I	Ingram, Rex: K_12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans J	Jackson, Janet: K-12 TLC Guide. Jackson, Jesse: K-12 TLC Guide. Jackson, Mahalia: K-12 TLC Guide. Jackson, Michael: K-12 TLC Guide. Jackson, Samuel L.: K-12 TLC. Jacobs, Regina, National Public Radio: 5/12/00 (audio: 9:30). Jemison, Mae: K-12 TLC Guide. Jessye, Eva: K-12 TLC Guide. Joel, Lawrence, History Channel. Johnson, Angela: K-12 TLC Guide Johnson, Georgia Douglas: K-12 TLC Guide. Johnson, Fenton: K-12 TLC Guide. Johnson-Brown, Hazel: K-12 TLC Guide. Johnson, James P.: K-12 TLC Guide. Johnson, James Weldon: K-12 TLC Guide. Johnson, Mordecai: K_12 TLC Guide. Johnson, Robert: National Public Radio (audio): 05/25/00: First Black Airline Chief (3:58). 11/30/00: America's First Black Billionaire (7:30). Jones, Edward P.: K-12 TLC Guide. Jones, Howard: K-12 TLC Guide. Jones, Loïs Mailou: K-12 TLC Guide. Jones, Quincy: K-12 TLC Guide. Joplin, Scott: K-12 TLC Guide. Jordan, Barbara: K-12 TLC Guide. Jordan, Louis: K-12 TLC Guide. Jordan, Michael: K-12 TLC Guide. Joyner, Florence Griffith: K-12 TLC Guide. Julian, Percy L.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans K	Kersee, Jackie Joyner: K-12 TLC Guide. Khan, Chaka: K-12 TLC Guide. King, B.B.: K-12 TLC Guide. King, Coretta Scott: K-12 TLC Guide. King, Don: K-12 TLC Guide. King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther: K-12 TLC Guide. Knox, Simmie: K-12 TLC Guide. Komunyakaa, Yusef: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans L	LaBelle, Patti: K-12 TLC Guide. Landsmark, Ted, National Public Radio: 2/1/00 (8:44). Langston, John Mercer, The Internet African American History Challenge. Larsen, Nella: K-12 TLC Guide. Latifah, Queen: K-12 TLC Guide. Latimer, Lewis: K-12 TLC Guide. Lawrence, Jacob: K-12 TLC Guide. Lawson, James, National Public Radio: 2/29/00 (8:29). Lee, Spike: K-12 TLC Guide. Leland, Mickey: K-12 TLC Guide. Leonard, Buck: K-12 TLC Guide. Lester, Julius: K-12 TLC Guide. Lewis, David Levering: K-12 TLC Guide. Lewis, Earl B.: K-12 TLC Guide. Locke, Alain: K-12 TLC Guide. Long, Nia: K-12 TLC Guide. Lorde, Audre: K-12 TLC Guide. Louis, Joe: K-12 TLC Guide. Lowery, Joseph: K-12 TLC Guide. Lynch, John R.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans M	Mahoney, Mary: K-12 TLC Guide. Malcolm X: K-12 TLC Guide. Mandela, Nelson: K-12 TLC Guide. The Marsalis Family: K-12 TLC Guide: Marsalis Branford: K-12 TLC Guide. Marsalis, Ellis: K-12 TLC Guide. Marsalis, Wynton: K-12 TLC Guide. Marshall, Harriett Gibbs: K-12 TLC Guide. Marshall, Thurgood: K-12 TLC Guide. Martin, Roberta: K-12 TLC Guide. Mathis, Johnny: K-12 TLC Guide. Mathis, Sharon Bell: K-12 TLC Guide. Matzeliger, Jan: K-12 TLC Guide. McBay, Henry Cecil Ransom: K-12 TKC Guide. McBride, Christian: K-12 TLC Guide. McCoy, Elijah: K-12 TLC Guide. McKay, Claude: K-12 TLC Guide. McMillan, Terry: K-12 TLC Guide. McNair, Ronald: K-12 TLC Guide. McPhatter, Clyde: K-12 TLC Guide. Meeks, Freddie - Presidential Pardon, National Public Radio: 12/23/99 (3:15). Menard, John Willis: K-12 TLC Guide. Meredith, James: K-12 TLC Guide. Mfume, Kweisi: K-12 TLC Guide. Mingus, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide. Monk, Thelonious: K-12 TLC Guide. Moody, Anne: K-12 TLC Guide. Morgan, Garrett: K-12 TLC Guide. Morrison, Toni: K-12 TLC Guide. Morton, Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe "Jelly Roll": TLC Guide. Moseley Braun, Carol: K-12 TLC Guide. Moseley, Walter: K-12 TLC Guide. Muhammad, Elijah: K-12 TLC Guide. Murphy, Eddie: K-12 TLC Guide. Murray, Pauli: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans N	Nance, Ray: K-12 TLC Guide. Neville, Aaron: K-12 TLC Guide. Nolen, Jerdine: K-12 TLC Guide
Notable African Americans O	Odetta, National Public Radio: 2/13/00 (17:32). Oliver, King: K-12 TLC Guide. Oliver, Sy: K-12 TLC Guide. Owens, Jesse: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans P	Parks, Gordon: K-12 TLC Guide. Parks, Rosa: K-12 TLC Guide. Payne, Daniel A.: K-12 TLC Guide. Payton, Walter: K-12 TLC Guide. Petry, Ann: K-12 TLC Guide. Pickett, Bill: K-12 TLC Guide. Pierce, Samuel, Jr.. Pilot, Ann Hobson: K-12 TLC Guide. Pinkney, Andrea Davis: K-12 TLC Guide. Pinkney, Brian: K-12 TLC Guide. Pinkney, Gloria Jean: K-12 TLC Guide: Plessy, Homer: K-12 TLC Guide. Poitier, Sidney: K-12 TLC Guide. Poussaint, Alvin F.: K-12 TLC Guide. Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide. Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr. Powell, Colin: K-12 TLC Guide. Powers, Harriet: K-12 TLC Guide. Price, Leontyne: K-12 TLC Guide: Price, Sammy: K-12 TLC Guide. Prillerman, Byrd: K-12 TLC Guide. Prophet, Elizabeth: K-12 TLC Guide. Pulliam, Keshia Knight: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans R	Randolph, Amanda: K-12 TLC Guide. Razaf, Andy: K-12 TLC Guide. Redding, Otis: K-12 TLC Guide. Remond, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide. Revels, Hiram Rhodes: K-12 TLC Guide. Rice, Condoleezza: K-12 TLC Guide. Rillieux. Norbert: K-12 TLC Guide. Ringgold, Faith: K-12 TLC Guide. Roberts, Joseph Jenkins (J.J.): K-12 TLC Guide. Robeson, Paul: K-12 TLC Guide. Robinson, Eddie: K-12 TLC Guide. Robinson, Glenn: K-12 TLC Guide. Robinson, Jackie: K-12 TLC Guide. Robinson, Roscoe, Jr., : K-12 TLC Guide. Roker, Al: K-12 TLC Guide: Ross, Diana: K-12 TLC Guide. Rowan, Carl, National Public Radio: 9/23/00 (audio: 2:30). Rudolph, Wilma: K-12 TLC Guide. Ruffin, Jimmy: K-12 TLC Guide. Rush, Bobby, National Public Radio: 2/13/00 (4:18). Russell, Alfred: K-12 TLC. Russell, Bill: K-12 TLC Guide. Russwurm, John Brown: K-12 TLC Guide. Rustin, Bayard: K-12 TLC Guide. Rux, Carl Hancock, National Public Radio: 11/3/99 (audio: 7:00).
Notable African Americans S	Sampson, Edith Spurlock: K-12 TLC Guide: Savage, Gus: K-12 TLC Guide. Schomburg, Arthur A.: K-12 TLC Guide. Shabazz, Betty: K-12 TLC Guide. Shadd, Mary Ann: K-12 TLC Guide. Shange, Ntozake: K-12 TLC Guide. Sharpton, Al, National Public Radio: 3/22/00 (audio: 6:00). Shaw, Bernard: K-12 TLC Guide. Shell, Art: K-12 TLC Guide. Sheppard, William, National Public Radio: 12/13/99 (audio: 6:40). Shuttlesworth, Reverend Fred, National Public Radio: 1/16/00 (audio: 7:06). Silver, Horace. Sleet, Moneta, Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide. Smith, Amanda Berry: K-12 TLC Guide. Smith, Bessie: K-12 TLC Guide. Smith, Will: K-12 TLC Guide. Spencer, Anne: K-12 TLC Guide. St. Cyr, Johnny: K-12 TLC Guide. Staupers, Mabel Keaton: K-12 TLC Guide. Steptoe, Javaka: K-12 TLC Guide. Steptoe, John: K-12 TLC. Still, Valerie: K-12 TLC Guide Still, William Grant: K-12 TLC Guide. Stitt, Sonny: K-12 TLC Guide. Stokes, Louis: K-12 TLC Guide. Stringer, C. Vivian: K-12 TLC Guide. Sullivan, Leon: K-12 TLC Guide. Swoopes, Sheryl: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans T	Taylor, Anna Diggs: K-12 TLC Guide. Taylor, Major: K_12 TLC Guide. Taylor, Meshach: K-12 TLC Guide. Terrell, Mary Church: K-12 TLC Guide. Thomas, James "Son": K-12 TLC Guide. Thornton, Big Mama: K-12 TLC Guide. Thurman, Howard: K-12 TLC Guide. Truth, Sojourner: K-12 TLC Guide. Tubman, Harriet: K-12 TLC Guide. Turner, Henry McNeal, The Internet African American History Challenge. Turner, Nat: K-12 TLC Guide. Tuskegee Airmen: K-12 TLC Guide. Tyson, Cicely: K-12 TLC Guide. Tyus, Wyomia: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans U	Uggams, Leslie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans V	Van Peebles, Melvin: K-12 TLC Guide. Vandross, Luther: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans W	Walker, Alice: K-12 TLC Guide. Walker, Madam C. J.: K-12 TLC Guide. Walter, Mildred Pitts: K-12 TLC Guide. Ward, Theodore: K-12 TLC Guide. Warner, Malcolm-Jamal: K-12 TLC Guide. Warwick, Dionne: K-12 TLC Guide. Washington, Booker T.: K-12 TLC Guide. Washington, Margaret Murray: K-12 TLC Guide. Wells-Barnett, Ida B.: K-12 TLC Guide. Wheatley, Phillis: K-12 TLC Guide. White, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide. Wilder, Douglas: K-12 TLC Guide. Wilkens, Lenny: K-12 TLC Guide. Wilkins, Roy: K-12 TLC Guide. Williams, Fannie Barrier: K-12 TLC Guide. Williams, Joe: K-12 TLC Guide. Williams, Ozzie: K-12 TLC Guide. Williams, Paul: K-12 TLC Guide. Williams, Serena: K-12 TLC Guide. Williams, Venus: K-12 TLC Guide. Wilson, August: K-12 TLC Guide. Wilson, Ed: K-12 TLC Guide: Wilson, Ellis: K-12 TLC Guide. Wilson, Shanice: K-12 TLC Guide. Wilson, William Julius: K-12 TLC Guide. Winfield, Dave: K-12 TLC Guide. Winfrey, Oprah: K-12 TLC Guide. Woodruff, Hale: K-12 TLC Guide. Woods, Granville: K-12 TLC Guide. Woods, Tiger: K-12 TLC Guide. Woodson, Carter: K-12 TLC Guide. Woodson, Jacqueline: K-12 TLC Guide. Wormley, James: K-12 TLC Guide. Wright, Richard: K-12 TLC Guide. Wyeth, Sharon Dennis: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans X	Malcolm X: K-12 TLC Guide.
Notable African Americans Y	Young, Andrew: K-12 TLC Guide. Young, Coleman: K-12 TLC Guide. Young, Lester: K-12 TLC Guide.
African- American Studies	Young Adult: Harriet Tubman: Call to Freedom, Judy Carlson. Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War, Zak Mettger. Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington. Adult: 3-D Publishing.com: Black Explorers, C.R. Gibbs. Black Inventors, C.R. Gibbs. The Brothers Neville, Aaron Neville. Amazon.com. National Public Radio: 10/8/00 (audio: 11:15). I May Not Get There With You: The True Dr. King, Michael Eric Dyson. Narrative Of The Life Of An American Slave, Frederick Douglass. Only the Strong Survive --Memoir of a Soul Survivor, Jerry Butler. National Public Radio (audio): All That We Can Be: Black Leadership the Army Way, Charles Moskos: (4:00). The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women..., K. Thompson & H. Mac Austin: 2/15/00 (2:51).
African- American Studies
	K-12 TLC Teachable Moments 02/01: Black History Month. 02/03: The Accomplishments of Noted African Americans. 02/04/1986: Postal Service Issues Sojourner Truth Commemorative Stamp. 02/05/1924: Lil Hardin Marries Louis Armstrong. 02/09/1995: Bernard Harris: First African American to Walk in Space. 02/10/: Alex Haley and Roots. 02/11/: National Inventors Day. 02/18/1931: The Birth Date of Toni Morrison. 02/23/1925: Louis Stokes's Birth Date: Congressional Black Caucus. 08/28: Dr.Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech". 09/03: Frederick Douglass' Escape to Freedom. 11/03: Minorities in American Politics.
	African-American Studies. Harriet Tubman: K-12 TLC Guide. Romare Bearden: K-12 TLC Guide. Other: Black History Past & Present, Knowledge Network Explorer.

This guide last edited 01/28/2010
This guide last revised 01/28/2010
This guide created 07/20/2004