Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Color in this picture of Sojourner Truth, one of the very first abolitionists and women's rights advocates.

Introduce young children to one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement in the United States with this coloring activity.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

Inspire kids to learn about black changemakers all year by displaying this poster at home or in the classroom.

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.

An icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks is featured on this simple coloring page, a perfect way for your child to engage in learning history.

This Martin Luther King, Jr. coloring page features the most famous and most influential civil rights activist himself!

Have your social studies student try her hand and writing her own protest song in this creative worksheet.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.