EnchantedLearning.com African-American History: Black History Month

Black History Printable Calendar

Timeline of African-American History (with quiz/printout)

Biographies of African-Americans

Quiz on Great African-Americans or go the answers

Cloze Activities on African-Americans Fill-in-the-blank printouts on great African-Americans.

African Americans A Printable Activity Book for Early Readers A short, printable early reader book with pages on Harriet Tubman, Elijah McCoy, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Matthew Henson, Madame C. J. Walker, Dr. Charles R. Drew, Jesse Owens, Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, and Martin Luther King, Jr.	African Americans A Printable Activity Book for Fluent Readers A short, printable book with pages on Harriet Tubman, Elijah McCoy, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Matthew Henson, Madame C. J. Walker, Dr. Charles R. Drew, Jesse Owens, Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, and Martin Luther King, Jr.	African-American Inventors and Inventions Learn about some African-American inventors who invented things from the blood bank to the potato chip.
African-American Women in History Read about African-American women who changed the world.	Harriet Tubman	Martin Luther King, Jr.

February is "Black History Month," a time to commemorate African-Americans who have changed the world.

Celebrating Black History began in 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated "Negro History Week." Dr. Woodson, a historian, chose the second week in February because it included the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the Bicentennial (200th birthday) of the U.S.A., the week-long observance was extended to the entire month of February in order to have enough time for celebratory programs and activities.

Juneteenth Day (also called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day) is celebrated on June 19 each year. It recognizes the anniversary of the emancipation of last remaining slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865; the Civil War had ended two months previously, and General Gordon Granger rode to Galveston, Texas, with 2,000 Union troops to enforce the freeing of the slaves. Juneteenth became an official holiday in Texas on Jan. 1, 1980. This uplifting celebration of freedom is gaining in popularity around the USA.