I love history. That’s why I do what I do. I believe history is powerful and should be shared outside the academy. These are resources which are accessible to the public and can be used for personal study.
African American History OER
The American Yawp – Primary Sources http://www.americanyawp.com
The Black Past Research Guides https://www.blackpast.org/research-guides-websites/
Africans In America (PBS) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
Black Matters Introduction to Black Studies (MIT) https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-912-black-matters-introduction-to-black-studies-spring-2017/
African American History from Emancipation to the Present (Open Yales Courses) https://oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162
Slavery to Liberation Open Textbook https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/1/
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Teach and Learning Unit https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/educators/teaching-and-learning
The Slave Trade, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/education/3594_smithedguide_nmaahc_final.pdf
African Americans and the Nazi Olympics, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/nazi-olympics-berlin-1936/the-nazi-olympics-african-american-athletes
African American Newspapers and the Holocaust/Nazi Era, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://newspapers.ushmm.org
Voyages, International Slavery Database record of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (Rice University, formerly Emory University)home page https://www.slavevoyages.org and Lesson Plans https://www.slavevoyages.org/resources/lessons#lesson-plans/0/en/