A kid's guide to African American history

Sanders, Nancy I.

Book

Chicago : Chicago Review Press, ©2000.

xiii, 242 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 x 28 cm

What do all these people have in common: the first man to die fighting in the American Revolution, a onetime chief of the Crow Nation, the inventors of the banjo and peanut butter, and the first clockmaker in this country? They were all great African Americans. For parents and teachers interested in fostering cultural awareness among children of all races, this book includes more than 70 hands-on activities, songs, and games that teach kids about the people, experiences, and events that shaped African American history. Children will have fun designing an African mask, making a medallion like those worn by early abolitionists, playing the rhyming game Juba, inventing Brer Rabbit riddles, and creating a unity cup for Kwanzaa. Along the way they will learn about inspiring African American artists, inventors, and heroes like Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, and Louis Armstrong, to name a few.

African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- History -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

African Americans in literature.

Glories of Africa: Middle ages -- City of Timbuktu -- Life in Africa -- Communities and nations -- Colonial America: Landing in Jamestown -- Beginning of slavery -- Slave trade -- Middle passage -- Landing in America -- Revolutionary War -- Shot heard around the world -- War at sea -- Free African society -- Life on a plantation: Food on a plantation -- Tuba -- Brer Rabbit and his friends -- Tell me a riddle -- Children's rhymes -- Children's songs -- Children's games -- Music and rhythm: Make a rhythm: Make a Rhythm -- Jingle a tambourine -- Build a washtub bass -- Short'nin' bread -- Blue-tail fly -- O freedom -- Uncode a spiritual -- Free African Americans and abolitionists: Emancipation papers -- Election day -- Parmenteering -- Pinkster day -- Quakers and other abolitionists -- Underground railroad -- Civil War and the road to freedom: Reconstruction -- Elected officials -- Sharecropping -- Exodusters -- Juneteenth -- Cowboys -- Buffalo soldiers --Jim Crow -- Turn of the century: Great scientific achievements -- Importance of music -- World at war ... twice -- Sports, America's favorite games -- Track-and-field day -- Civil Rights Movement: How one woman made a difference -- Segregation in schools -- Sit-in movement and freedom rides -- Children helped change a nation -- March on Washington -- Hope for today and a better tomorrow: New African American -- Renaissance -- Kwanzaa -- Celebrate Kwanzaa -- Joining together for a future of hope -- Suggested reading list for kids -- Bibliography -- Index.

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