Black History Month resources?

[ktgrok]

I'd love to add in some documentaries or books for Black History Month for my 11 year old son. Any recomendations?

[texasmama]

"The Rosa Parks Story" starring Angela Bassett is very nicely done. My two boys, ages 7 and 9 last year, watched it in conjunction with a rabbit trail study of civil rights which we followed for a couple of months last year.

[Murmer]

Christopher Paul Curtis has a number of really good fiction books about a variety of historical time periods. Bud not Buddy, The Watson's Go to Birmingham, his new one is about slavery.

[Hunter]

We've got 2 threads going now :-)

 

http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=242563

[HeidiKC]

We just watched 2 Disney movies:

 

- "Ruby Bridges"

- "Selma, Lord, Selma" (true story about an 8-year-old girl who marched on Bloody Sunday)

 

"Nightjohn" is another I got, but we haven't watched it yet because I don't want my younger two to see it. It's about an escaped slave, I think.

 

My son just watched "Remember the Titans" Friday night. Denzel Washington stars as the coach of a newly integrated football team in 1971. He and his friends loved this one (of course).

 

Also 25-30 min DVDs:

 

- Harriet Tubman (from Schlessinger's Animated Hero Classics series)

- George Washington Carver (from Schlessinger's Inventors of the World Series)

 

There's a good one on MLK, I think it's called "My Friend Martin". It's animated but is about kids in middle school that go back in time and meet MLK.

[HeidiKC]

And I just came across these. The description and all is not mine, but from the website. Couple of them are sports figures, which might appeal to 11 yo boys! Free downloads.

 

http://www.archive.org/details/DestinationFreedom

 

A series of very high quality sketches and dramatised biographies of noteworthy black americans, with an emphasis on civil rights, Jim Crow-busting, and in freedom in general.

 

To aid searches, here is a list of the subjects of each piece where it is not otherwise obvious.

 

The Knock-Kneed Man {Crispus Attucks}

Railway to Freedom {Harriet Tubman}

Dark Explorers {Moors in New Spain}

The Making of a Man {Frederick Douglass}

The Key to Freedom {Frederick Douglass}

The Heart of George Cotton {Drs Daniel Wms & Ulysses Grant Daly}

Arctic Autograph {Matthew Hansen}

The Story of 1875 {Charles Caldwell}

Poet in Pine Mill {George Weldon Johnson}

Shakespeare of {Harlem Langston}

Citizen {Toussaint l'Ouverture}

Little David {Joe Louis}

The Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse {George Washington Carver}

Echoes of Harlem {Duke Ellington}

The Rhyme of the Ancient Dodger {Jackie Robinson}

Peace Mediator {Ralph J Fudge}

Black Boy {Richard Wright}

Help the Blind {Josh White}

The Ballad of {Satchel Paige}

The Saga of Melody Jackson {Henry Armstrong}

Anatomy of an Ordinance {Rev Archibald Kerry}

Negro Cinderella {Lena Horne}

Ghost Editor {Roscoe Dungee}

Norfolk Miracle {Dorothy Mayner}

The Trumpet Talks {Louis Armstrong}

The Long Road {Mary Church Tarot}

Black Hamlet {Henri Christophe}

Father to Son {William Clayton Powell}

Of Blood and the Boogie {Albert Hammond}

The Man Who Owned Chicago {Jean-Baptiste du Saint}

The Birth of a League {Northern Migration}

Premonition of the Panther {Sugar Ray Robinson}

The Liberators {William Lloyd Garrison & Wendell Phillips}

The Shy Boy {Fats Waller}

Kansas City Phone Call {Nat King Cole}

Last Letter Home {33nd Fighter Group}