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

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.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Frederick Douglass, an influential African American writer and abolitionist.

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

Introduce students to one of the leading figures of the United States civil rights movement with this reading comprehension worksheet all about Thurgood Marshall!

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

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.

Explore a fascinating period of U.S. history with this informational reading worksheet about the Harlem Renaissance.

Children are introduced to four inspiring members of the civil rights movement in this engaging social studies worksheet.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

First, students will read a biography of Amelia Boynton Robinson, and then respond to comprehension questions, using text evidence.

The Underground Railroad helped thousands of enslaved Americans find freedom. In this worksheet, your student will learn about this historic network.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

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!

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

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.

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.

Students read background information about the establishment of the Juneteenth holiday and answer comprehension and analysis questions.