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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
John Henry
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A Dedication
To the colleagues from whom I've learned so much about social studies and black history as well as how to teach over the years, starting out in Ocean Hill Brownsville in 1968. To the late Nancy Brezenoff, Jane Miller Monastersky, Rafael Guzman and Elaine King. To Francis Lippette, Teddy and WanLing Vann, Miguel Figueroa, and Ida Watson.
MAGNIFICENCE OF AFRICA
- Akhenaton
- Makeda, Queen of Sheba
- Queen Anne Njinga
- Chaka Zula
- Imhotep
ISLAMIC AFRICA
- Askia the Great
- Bilal
THE COLONIAL PERIOD
- Pomp Blackman
- Peter Salem
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Richard Allen
- Prince Easterbrooks
- Lemuel Haynes
- Benjamin Banneker
- Crispus Attucks
ATHLETES
- Major Taylor
- Althea Gibson
- Arthur Ashe
- Hank Aaron
- Jim Brown
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- Muhammad Ali
- Willie Mays
- Jackie Robinson
- Jesse Owens
- Joe Louis
Black History Movies I Recommend (with amazon links)
Book Recommendations
Dover Black History Coloring Books
Example of Primary Documents
Graphic Organizers
Labels
- 54th Massachusetts (2)
- a. philip randolph (2)
- adam clayton powell jr. (2)
- addisleigh park (1)
- african american lives (4)
- althea gibson (3)
- american revolution (7)
- americans in focus (5)
- ancestry (5)
- andre braugher (2)
- Ansel Pitcairn (1)
- Apollo Theater (1)
- Arthur Ashe (3)
- assignment templates (21)
- barack obama (12)
- baseball (30)
- basketball (5)
- bayard rustin (2)
- bessie coleman (2)
- bill miles (1)
- billie holiday (4)
- black cowboys (3)
- black inventors (4)
- black police officers (2)
- bob dylan (1)
- bojangles (2)
- book recommendations (17)
- boxing (10)
- brook benton (1)
- brooklyn (11)
- buffalo soldiers (3)
- Cab Calloway (8)
- Carla Peterson (1)
- carole boston weatherford (2)
- charlie parker (4)
- charlie scott (1)
- chris rock (3)
- civil rights (3)
- civil war (2)
- classics illustratd (2)
- claudette colvin (2)
- clifford brown (2)
- coleman hawkins (1)
- colin powell (1)
- colonel robert shaw (2)
- color me dark (5)
- coloring pages (23)
- comics (10)
- condoleeza rice (1)
- cool papa bell (1)
- cootie williams (1)
- count basie (4)
- crispus attucks (1)
- cuban giants (1)
- d'Lelia walker (1)
- dabney montgomery (1)
- dance (5)
- Dave At Night (4)
- denmark vesey (1)
- denzel washington (6)
- diahann carroll (1)
- dick gregory (1)
- dinah washington (1)
- dizzy gillespie (1)
- don cheadle (1)
- don newcombe (1)
- Dr. Alan Singer (2)
- dr. martin luther king (8)
- Dr. Patricia Bath (1)
- duke ellington (2)
- edward strickland (2)
- eleanor roosevelt (1)
- elijah mccoy (3)
- elizabeth jennings (3)
- ella fitzgerald (3)
- emmett till (4)
- eubie blake (3)
- eugene bullard (7)
- fats waller (7)
- field trips (3)
- fisk jubilee singers (2)
- flamingos (1)
- floyd patterson (2)
- folktales (1)
- football (1)
- frederick douglass (3)
- george washington carver (1)
- glory (2)
- google maps (34)
- gordon parks (4)
- graphic organizer (5)
- great debaters (3)
- gregory hines (1)
- hamilton terrace/heights (3)
- harlem (67)
- harlem burial ground (2)
- harlem globetrotters (4)
- harlem renaissance (7)
- harlem rens (3)
- harriet tubman (4)
- harry belafonte (3)
- henry "box" brown (1)
- herb jeffries (1)
- herbert hill (1)
- herbie hancock (1)
- hubert harrison (1)
- illinois jacquet (4)
- inspiration (1)
- inventors (1)
- jack johnson (5)
- jackie ormes (2)
- Jackie Robinson (8)
- james baldwin (2)
- james brown (2)
- james farmer (1)
- jazztime tale (1)
- jesse jackson (1)
- jesse owens (1)
- Jim Brown (2)
- joe louis (6)
- john brown (6)
- john coltrane (2)
- john henry (1)
- josh gibson (5)
- JT Project (1)
- kareem abdul jabbar (4)
- katherine dunham (1)
- knickerbocker village (1)
- langston hughes (3)
- larry doby (2)
- lena horne (4)
- lester young (2)
- lewis latimer (1)
- library of congress (1)
- louis armstrong (9)
- louis jordan (2)
- lower east side (6)
- Lower Manhattan Slavery in New York Walking Tour (5)
- madam c.j. walker (2)
- mae jemison (1)
- major taylor (5)
- Malcolm X (5)
- maps (2)
- marcus garvey (5)
- Maritcha Lyons (7)
- mary lou williams (2)
- max roach (5)
- maxine sullivan (6)
- Maya Angelou (1)
- migration (6)
- miles davis (2)
- military (17)
- milt hinton (2)
- morgan freeman (1)
- movies (12)
- Muhammad Ali (1)
- music (29)
- naacp (1)
- nat king cole (1)
- nat turner (2)
- negro leagues (15)
- nelson mandela (2)
- nicholas brothers (2)
- ny1 community highlights (7)
- oprah winfrey (1)
- panoramas (10)
- panoramic scene (3)
- paul cuffee (1)
- Paul Robeson (7)
- pee wee reese (1)
- peter salem (1)
- phil hoose (2)
- Philip Panaritis (4)
- philip white (1)
- phyllis wheatley (1)
- poetry (2)
- posterized charts (6)
- primary documents (9)
- protests (1)
- pullman porters (3)
- Queens (15)
- ralph ellison (2)
- recyouth (1)
- romare bearden (1)
- rosa parks (7)
- roy campenella (5)
- Roy Wilkins (1)
- ruby dee (1)
- sammy davis jr (6)
- samuel battle (1)
- san juan hill (1)
- Sarah Vaughn (1)
- satchel paige (5)
- savoy (2)
- seneca village (6)
- shirley chisholm (1)
- Sidney Poitier (2)
- slave catchers slave resistors (1)
- slavery (10)
- Spike Lee (1)
- sports (3)
- stevie wonder (1)
- strivers row (1)
- sugar ray robinson (3)
- tavis smiley (1)
- Telling America's Story (4)
- tennis (1)
- Thurgood Marshall (2)
- tom bullock (1)
- Tonya Bolden (4)
- tuskegee airmen (9)
- underground railroad (9)
- unions (1)
- W.E.B. DuBois (2)
- Walter White (1)
- Wangari Maathai (1)
- weeksville (2)
- Willie Mays (5)
- world war II (2)
About Every Month....
Over the last several years I have digitized a great deal of content related to Social Studies and Black History. In most cases I have used QuickTime Movies as a means to deliver that content. I found that it was a more engaging way to approach the elementary and junior high school students I taught in New York City public schools. I'm pretty much retired now after close to 40 years. To construct these movies I relied on an application called LiveSlideShow. It allowed me to easily combine images, sound and text. The exported movies it created were relatively small in size, especially compared to movies created with iMovie. I have also relied on QuickTime Pro. Often the movies gave students a "taste" of a specific topic which would make it easier for them to move on to learn more on their own and do independent research. Fortuitously these slide show movies were easily converted to the format required by youtube, itunes mp4's and google video. I decided to put the Black History themed movies all in one spot rather than in the anarchic way they had existed in my other sites. I've supplemented them with other videos I discovered and then converted from youtube.
More:
1. I've made available for download some of the many posterized collages that I cobbled together in PhotoShop. They are great for display along with accompanying guided questions. In order to print them (unless you are lucky enough to have a plotter) you have to have knowledge of Image Ready in order to create slices that you can piece together.
2. There are also entries for downloadable black history themed coloring pages that I've also digitized so that they may be colored in by any paint program as well as by hand. Look for the coloring pages label.
3. Many entries involve the use of primary documents, such as census reports. Look for the primary document label.
4. There are entries that make use of downloadable assignments in template form. Look for the corresponding label.
5. There are entries that make use of graphic organizers, often generated by Inspiration. Look for the corresponding label.
6. Entries may be labeled with "Google Maps." These show portions of the several Google Map Sites I've made of different neighborhoods of New York City. They will show the locations of various houses and/or locations where Black History may have occurred.
7. The are entries that contain panoramic movies I've made of
various Black History related sites in New York City.
More:
1. I've made available for download some of the many posterized collages that I cobbled together in PhotoShop. They are great for display along with accompanying guided questions. In order to print them (unless you are lucky enough to have a plotter) you have to have knowledge of Image Ready in order to create slices that you can piece together.
2. There are also entries for downloadable black history themed coloring pages that I've also digitized so that they may be colored in by any paint program as well as by hand. Look for the coloring pages label.
3. Many entries involve the use of primary documents, such as census reports. Look for the primary document label.
4. There are entries that make use of downloadable assignments in template form. Look for the corresponding label.
5. There are entries that make use of graphic organizers, often generated by Inspiration. Look for the corresponding label.
6. Entries may be labeled with "Google Maps." These show portions of the several Google Map Sites I've made of different neighborhoods of New York City. They will show the locations of various houses and/or locations where Black History may have occurred.
7. The are entries that contain panoramic movies I've made of
various Black History related sites in New York City.
