Using NYPL resources to enrich your African American History studies

Toussaint Louverture, about 1795
(NYPL Digital Gallery)Use the resources of NYPL to engage your students with the rich and complex history of African Americans. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has several online exhibitions that make NYPL resources easily accessible and usable in your classroom: 

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience: http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

African Americans in American Politics: http://exhibitions.nypl.org/african-americans-in-politics/

The African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992:http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Schomburg/

and much more!