Black History and Culture Inventory List
Please use this list to check off items before returning the kit to Milner Library.
Box – Part 1
Audiotapes and CDs (in bag /videotape)
Marian Anderson: Spirituals (CD)
Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime Writers (CD)
The Very Best of Duke Ellington (CD)
Booklets (these go with poster sets in part 2)
Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad (game) (blue binder)
Segregation: Before Civil Rights: Twelve Historical Photo-Posters (blue binder)
Slavery In America Album: Teacher’s Resource (blue binder)
Struggle For Civil Rights: 1954-1968: Photo Preview, Broadsheet & Photo-Analysis
Worksheet (blue binder)
Women In the Civil War: Teaching Guide (blue binder)
Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference: Study Guide (blue 3ring binder)
Books
African-American ‘Firsts’ (coloring book)
African Americans (chapter 11 from Multicultural Information Quests: Instant
Research Lessons, Grades 5-8) by Marie E. Rodgers (blue binder)
Black Achievers in Science
Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980 (blue binder)
Black History At An Early Age (series of 10)
Volume 1: Historic Black Women
Volume 2: Black Scientists & Inventors
Volume 3: Historic Black Pioneers
Volume 4: Black Civil Rights Leaders
Volume 5: Historic Black Abolitionists
Volume 6: African Kings and Queens
Volume 7: Historic Black Firsts
Volume 8: Historic Blacks In the Arts
Volume 9: Blacks In the Federal Government
Volume 10: Historic Black Educators
Black Stars of the Civil Rights Movement
Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance
Blacks In American History (Whole Language Unit) (Grades 4-6)
Freedom Fighters (coloring book)
Great African Americans of the 20th Century (coloring book)
History of African Americans In McLean County (has matching video)
If You Lived At the Time of Martin Luther King
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Books cont’d
Kwanzaa: An African American Holiday
Kwanzaa: Everything You Always Wanted To Know But Didn’t Know Where To Ask
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (poems)
Teacher’s Manual
Magazines
Cobblestone (8 individual issues, 8 articles total)
Cricket (1 article) (blue binder)
Faces (1 article)
Footsteps: African American History (6 individual issues, 6 articles total)
Kids Discover (1 article)
Masonic Journal: The Official Magazine of the Prince Hall Masons and the Order
Of the Eastern Star (1 issue, 2 articles total) (blue binder)
National Geographic (1 article)
National Geographic World (1 article) (blue binder)
People Land & Water (1 article)
Smithsonian (1 article)
Spider (1 article) (blue binder)
Primary Source Packets
I. Black Voting Rights: The Fight for Equality (25)
- Black Voting Rights: Notes On Exhibits
- Black Voting Rights: Study Guide, Reproducible masters
- This Is a White Man’s Government, cartoon by Thomas Nast
- Two Thomas Nast Cartoons
- Three Cartoons by Thomas Nast
- The First Colored Senator and Representatives (lithograph)
- Canvassing For Votes cartoon by R. N. Brooke, and Black Political Parade cartoon
- The Political Pinkertons cartoon by Grant Hamilton
- Negro Rule cartoon
- Opinion of W.E.B. DuBois editorial
- Election Day in Florida article by Walter F. White
- Nixon vs. Herndon, Supreme Court Reports 536
- Why the Poll Tax Must Be Repealed, broadside, NAACP
- Letters, J. L. LeFlore to Thurgood Marshall and Thurgood Marshall to Robert E.
Hannegan
- Committee For Alabama, letter
- Hands Off Democracy, handbill, NAACP
- M Is for Mississippi and Murder, pamphlet, NAACP
- Hands That Picked Cotton, poster, Voter Education Project
- 100 % Registered To Vote, window sticker
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Primary Source Packets cont’d
- Profiles of Lowery, King and Young on Voter’s Card
- The Fifteenth Amendment, poster
- Broadsheet I: Reconstruction
- Broadsheet II: Disfranchisement
- Broadsheet III: Blacks Organize
- Broadsheet IV: We Shall Overcome
II. Harlem Renaissance (28)
- Harlem Renaissance: Notes on Exhibit
- Harlem Renaissance: Study Guide, Reproducible Masters
- Maps of Manhattan and Harlem, 1800-1930
- Poster: True Sons of Freedom
- Profile: James Reese Europe and the Fighting 15th
- Harlem in the 1920s: A Photo Album
- Text of Interview for WPA American Life Histories Project: Harlem Rent Parties
- Manuscript for Federal Writer’s Project: The Whites Invade Harlem
- (A/B/C) Posters Showing Books, Plays and Magazines of the Harlem Renaissance
- A Review of Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues
- Reflections on O’Neill’s Plays by Paul Robeson
- The Prodigal Son, from God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons In Verse
- Illustrations by Aaron Douglas for God’s Trombones
- Race Ads
- (A/B) Two paintings of the Harlem Renaissance: Thinnin’ Corn and Midsummer
Night in Harlem
- Profile: Zora Neale Hurston, Renaissance Woman
- Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias for Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men
- Profile: William Grant Still, a Harlem Renaissance Classic
- First Page of the First Movement of Afro-American Symphony by William Grant
Still
- Harlem Renaissance Timeline: 1903-1930
- Broadsheet 1: Harlem
- Broadsheet 2: The New Negro
- Broadsheet 3: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Broadsheet 4: The Arts in Harlem
- Broadsheet 5: Women of the Harlem Renaissance
III. The Slave Trade & Its Abolition (16)
- The Slave Trade & Its Abolition: Notes on Exhibits
- The Slave Trade & Its Abolition: Study Guide, Reproducible Masters
- A Plan of the Slaving Ship ‘Brooks’
- William Wilberforce by Sir Thomas Lawrence
- A Bill Advertising a West Indian Slave Auction in 1829
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Primary Source Packets cont’d
- Selected Pages From the Journal of John Newton
- A Remonstrance From the Council and Assembly of Jamaica to the House of
Commons on the Subject of the Slave Trade (1789)
- Accounts of the Numbers of Negroes Delivered to the Islands of Barbados,
Jamaica and Antigua For the Years 1698-1701
- Views of Slavery From Cartoons of 1790, 1830 and 1832
- Sold Into Slavery: Scenes From Slave Life
- Broadsheet 1: Slavery
- Broadsheet 2: How It Began
- Broadsheet 3: The Middle Passage
- Broadsheet 4: The Plantations
- Broadsheet 5: The Men With a Conscience
- Broadsheet 6: Why Did It Take So Long?
IV. Slavery In the United States (22)
- Slavery In the United States: Notes on Exhibits
- Slavery In the United States: Study Guide, Reproducible Masters
- Newspapers and Slavery: Page 3 of the “South Carolina Gazette” of October 30,
1736
- Newspapers and Slavery: Page 1 of the “Camden (South Carolina) Journal” of
January 1, 1831
- A Slave Sale Poster, 1835
- A Bill of Sale For a Slave, 1838
- An Ordinance to Prohibit Slaves From Carrying on Any Mechanic or Handicraft
Trade of Themselves, 1796
- A Portion of the Georgia Slave Code, 1848
- A Petition for Payment for Execution of a Slave By Burning, 1802
- Transcript of Petition for Payment
- A Petition to Free A Slave, ca. 1820
- Transcript of Petition to Free
- A Letter From a Slave, 1838
- Transcript of Letter
- The Emancipation Proclamation, 1836
- Transcript of Emancipation
- Broadsheet 1: Slavery Comes to the Colonies
- Broadsheet 2: Slavery In the North
- Broadsheet 3: Slavery In the Nineteenth Century
- Broadsheet 4: The Slave’s Culture
- Broadsheet 5: The Slave’s Reaction to Slavery
- Broadsheet 6: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
V. Underground Railroad (23)
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Primary Source Packets cont’d
- Underground Railroad: Notes on Exhibits
- Underground Railroad: Reproducible Student Activities
- Runaway Slave Reward Poster, 1847 and Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1736
and 1831
- Anti-Abolition Handbill, 1837
- First Page of Song of the Abolitionist by William Lloyd Garrison, 1841
- Front Page of The North Star, June 2, 1848
- Certificate of Freedom of Harriet Bolling, 1851
- AntiSlave Catchers’ Mass Convention Broadside, 1854
- Broadside Warning ‘Colored People of Boston’ of Slave Catchers, 1851
- Antebellum Map Showing Free and Slave States, 1956
- Page From the Boston Vigilance Committee Handbook, ca. 1854
- Excerpt From The Underground Railroad by William Still, 1879 edition
- Detail From the Elgin Settlement Plan, 1866
- Excerpt From Reminiscences of Levi Coffin by Levi Coffin, 1876
- Joint Resolutionof Congress Submitting the Proposed Thirteenth Amendment to
State Legislatures for ratification, February 1, 1865
- Photo-Poster: Underground Railroad: The Train to Freedom
- Underground Railroad Timeline: 1619-1879
- Map Showing Major U.S. Routes On the Underground Railroad
- Stories From the Underground Railroad
- Broadsheet 1: Negroes For Sale: A Brief History of Slavery in the United States
- Broadsheet 2: Laying Tracks for An Underground Railroad
- Broadsheet 3: Fighting Slavery Above Ground
- Broadsheet 4: The Train to Freedom
Pictures
Civil Rights Leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (craft tinfoil portrait)
Bill Pickett: The Bull Dogger
Hidden Meanings in Quilt Designs
The King Center: Six Principles of Nonviolence
Realia
Game Pieces (6) and Die (goes w/Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Game Poster in pt. 2, booklet in pt. 1)
Kwanzaa Set
-Kikombe Cha Umoja (communal unity cup)
- Kinara (candleholder)
- Mishumaa Saba (seven candles, 3 red, 3 green, 1 black)
- Mkeka (place mat)
Videos (in pkg w/Audiotapes and CDs)
History of African Americans in McLean County (has matching book)
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Bag – Part 2
Brochures
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have A Dream/ Sweet Auburn: The Black Atlanta of
King’s Early Years
Posters
African Americans In the Arts
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Famous Black Americans # 1 (2-sided)
- Side 1: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Side 2: A. Philip Randolph, Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, Dorie
Miller, Ethel Waters, George Washington Carver, Granville T. Woods, Jackie
Robinson, James Weldon Johnson, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Langston Hughes,
Mary church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Paul Robeson, Robert Smalls, Scott
Joplin, W.E.B. DuBois
Famous Black Americans # 2 (2-sided)
- Side 1: Benjamin Banneker, Blanche Kelso Bruce, Crispus Attucks, Dred Scott,
Estevancio, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, James Forten, Jean Baptiste
Point DuSable, John Brown Russwurm, Joseph Rainey, Martin Robinson Delany,
Nat Turner, Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth
- Side 2: Andrew Young, Jr., Arthur Ashe, Bill Cosby, Duke Ellington, Frank
Robinson, James Meredith, Jesse Jackson, Leon Howard Sullivan, Louis Armstrong,
Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Ralph Bunche, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm,
Thomas Bradley, Thurgood Marshall, Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (game) (matching booklet in pt. 1)
Langston Hughes: The People’s Poet: 1902-1967
Malcolm X and 1199, New York’s Health Care Worker’s Union
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Martin luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have A Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr., (Instructor Special Poster)
Outstanding Black Americans of the 20th Century (public service, education &
science)
Outstanding Black Americans of the Past
Segregation: Before Civil Rights (12) (goes with Twelve Historical Photo Posters in pt. 1)
- Hauling Cotton Bales
- Cotton Planting
- Chain Gang
- Chemistry Laboratory
- End of the School Day
- Cross Burning
- Segregated Movie Theater
- Bus Station
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Posters cont’d
- Segregated Café
- Rioting at Housing Project
- African-American Platoon
- Pickets at Movie Theater
Slavery In America Album (12) (goes with Teacher’s Resource in pt. 1)
- Auction and Negro Sales Building, c. 1864
- Slave Pen, c. 1863
- White Boss Watching Cotton Pickers, c. 1870
- Free Blacks Cutting Sugar Cane, c. 1880
- Slave Quarters on Plantation, c. 1862
- Young Slave, c. 1860
- Slave With Lash Marks, c. 1862; Branded Slave, c. 1863
- Whipping Post and Pillory, c. 1870s
- Fugitive Slaves, 1862
- Harriet Tubman and Freed Slaves, c. 1877
- Escaped Slaves, Contrabands, c. 1862
- Ex-Slaves, c. 1936
Struggle For Civil Rights: 1954-1968 (12) (goes with Photo Preview, Broadsheet & PhotoAnalysis Worksheet in pt. 1)
- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56
- Crisis In Little Rock, 1957
- Freedom Riders, 1961
- Integration of the University of Mississippi, 1962
- Lunch Counter Sit-In, Jackson, Mississippi, 1963
- Birmingham Children’s Crusade, 1963
- March On Washington, 1963
- Non-Violence and the March on Washington, 1963
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, 1963
- Freedom Summer, 1964
- Selma-to-Montgomery March, 1965
- Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968
Women and the Civil War, c. 1900 (National Women’s History Project) (goes with
Teacher’s Guide in pt. 1)
Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference (12) (goes with Study Guide
in pt. 1)
- Alexa Canady, Neurosurgeon
- Alice Walker, Author
- The Delany Sisters: Elizabeth, Dental Surgeon; Sarah, Teacher; Co-Authors
- Ella J. Baker, Civil Rights Organizer
- Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Fighter
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Posters cont’d
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Editor, Anti-Lynching Crusader
- Mae C. Jemison, Astronaut, Physician
- Marian Wright Edelman, President of Children’s Defense Fund
- Maya Angelou, Poet, Playwright, Professor
- Ruby Dee, Actress, Author
- Septima P. Clark, Taught Literacy As Key to Empowerment
- Toni Morrison, Author
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