A friend sent this link  http://www.ls.cc.al.us/blackhistory/blackhistory.html (NOTE: All the pictures take a while to load - wait for it)

It is Black History WITH DEPTH.  You can pick any of these historic pictures and learn more about them.  There are links within most that will provide you with still more information.  A child could pick a picture and write a paper as part of their Black History involvement.  Reading that paper to the class will develop skills all children need.  Of the over 250 pictures, I recognized only 75.

For videos by or about any of these people you can "google" the "name" followed by "utube".  YouTube will have dozens of videos of many speakers and entertainers past and present.  President Obama's speeches on YouTube. 

Youtube: Frederick Douglas on Free Trade, Immigration, and M Friedman --- +60 more

and  Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches & Malcom X .

Here we have a kind of TIME TRAVEL:  Look at Aretha in 1968 or Aretha Franklin - Respect (1990) --- +60 more

It's hard to imagine the teenaged Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil (Live Kaskad 1962) or a young Miriam Makeba - The Click Song 1966

Before leaving we have A Look At Our President - Chicago SunTimes (http://www.suntimes.com/images/cds/obama/obamasection.pdf)

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Black History Month 2009  week 2

This is an Amazing Photo

        This is the MOST AMAZING picture..........                 Click on the link at the bottom to open picture.  The control for the picture is in the upper left.  Press the + sign to zoom in, or the arrows to move right, left, up or down.  If the picture looks fuzzy give it a second to clarify. This is a remarkable panorama of the inauguration. It might not work well with a dial-up modem, but you can actually focus in on faces near the back of the crowd- nearly 1/2 mile!   For fun, focus on Obama (center stage) and then look behind him. There's Clarence Thomas seemingly asleep, Dick Cheney in his wheelchair, Clinton, Gore, Bush 41 and even Dan Quayle! Scalia is sitting there looking like the Grand Inquisitor. The clarity is amazing!   The technology is truly amazing- and it's un-classified!  Imagine what our spy agencies can see with classified technology!!!              

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

Here are some more inaugeration day photos

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