Check out this comprehensive list of in-person and virtual Black History Month programs happening throughout New York State:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/state-history/notes/2023-...

This presentation by Dr. Mike Lucas, divided into five segments, provides an overview of the Thomas Powell Homestead site located in Colonie, New York. Mike describes the history, layout, and archaeology of the Powell family farmstead through an on-site tour.

Recent investigations show there are ways of "seeing" enslaved African Americans in diverse households, even when they did not live in separate quarters from their enslavers. View recorded presentations of archaeologists who discussed their research on plural households in New York at the 2022 Fall Meeting of the New York Archaeology Council, in partnership with the New York State Museum. 

Join Historic Cherry Hill’s director of education, Shawna Reilly, as she explores the lives of Kitty Putnam and Minnie Knapp, two Gilded Age women raised in the same household with different prescribed social roles.
 

Discover the history of Timbuctoo, a little-known Black settlement near Lake Placid, New York, established in 1846 by abolitionist Gerrit Smith in hopes of securing voting rights for the 3,000 black men who settled there. The exhibition features a short video by filmmaker Paul A. Miller about the insurmountable challenges its settlers faced as they fought to establish their unique community amidst New York's Adirondack mountains.

View Exhibit Information:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/news/timbuctoo-gerrit-smiths-exper...

Related Resources for Educators:
CTLE (from WMHT): 
https://www.wmht.org/education/ctle/

Consider the Source (from NYS Archives): 
https://considerthesourceny.org/featured-collections/learning-activities...

Discover the rich and diverse culture of Harlem, New York, in the 1920s and 1930s.

This online guide includes several object-inquiry activities. By exploring primary source materials around the topic of national enfranchisement of Black American men through the ratification of the 15th Amendment, students will develop a better understanding of the context surrounding this important step in America’s history. 
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/fifteenth-amendment

View information and download educator guides designed to provide strategies and resources for teaching about the Civil Rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Video & History:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/mlk-1962-address

Educator's Guide:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/common/nysm/files/mlk-educatorsguide.pdf

This exhibition seeks to present the various viewpoints of the September 1971 Attica prison uprising and its aftermath. It will also discuss the wider impacts of the event and create a dialogue as to why this story is important fifty years later.

Exhibit Information & Video:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/open-wounds-attica-prison-uprising

View/Download Panels (PDF):
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/common/nysm/files/attica_panels_a.pdf

In 2005, the discovery of human remains during construction in Colonie, NY, offered a unique view of slavery in rural colonial America. Learn more about the history of the Schuyler Flatts Burial Ground.

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/archaeology/bioarchaeolog...

Recommended Classroom Resource: 
Forgotten Bones: Uncovering a Slave Cemetery by archaeologist and children’s author, Lois Miner Huey, offers an informative and age appropriate look into the work of archaeologists as they “pieced together the truth” around the individuals whose human remains archaeologists discovered at Schuyler Flatts. Huey compares archaeological research with the historical record to show how different forms of evidence are needed to create a better picture of the lives of the people enslaved at Schuyler Flatts. Forgotten Bones helps younger readers learn about the enslavement of people in New York, the different types of primary resources available to learn about people who were enslaved, and how archaeology can help tell the story of those who were enslaved.

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow details the national story of the struggle for Black equality after the end of slavery and through the Jim Crow era. A link is provided to the Educator's Guide created by the New-York Historical Society website.
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/black-citizenship-age-jim-crow