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306: Black History

Online Resources for Middle & High School


Engage and inspire your students with free, online Black History lessons

Bring History to Life in Your Classroom

Throughout history, Black Americans have shaped American life, from science and academia, to music and the arts. 306: Black History is a digital program that brings to life a number of important leaders and events that impacted the fabric of America. The lessons span four key eras, allowing students to navigate principal figures and moments in Black American History in a self-paced environment, whether remote or in the classroom.

  • Slavery in the United States
  • Emancipation & Reconstruction
  • Jim Crow
  • Civil Rights and Beyond
  • Capstone Exercise

Course Snapshot

  • Target Students

    Grades 8-12

  • Standards

    Common Core State Standards for Writing and Literacy in History/Social Studies

  • Time

    5-10 Minutes / 1.5 Hours

Interview with Dr. Clayborne Carson

Lesson Plan

Slavery in the United States

In this lesson, students learn about the history of slavery, as well as the key figures and counterforces that were critical to the resistance movements throughout this era.

Slavery In The US

Emancipation & Reconstruction

In this lesson, students learn about leaders like Frederick Douglass and Hiram Revels, who helped pave the way for more opportunities for black Americans in a society rife with inequalities after Emancipation.

Emancipation & Reconstruction

Jim Crow

In this lesson, students learn about the original and lasting contributions that African Americans made to American culture throughout the early to mid-twentieth century.

Jim Crow

Civil Rights and Beyond

Through great sacrifice and dogged effort, the Civil Rights Movement expanded freedom, equality, and opportunity. In this lesson, students learn about the key events and individuals who grabbed the moment and built a movement.

Civil Rights And Beyond

Capstone Exercise

In a final essay, students reflect on all that they’ve learned throughout the course.

Capstone Exercise


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Join the 60,000+ teachers who used EVERFI's award-winning lessons this past school year!

Students expressed that these lessons helped them see not just the history as something in the past, it made it relevant, it made them realize that these happened not in the far past as they had envisioned but in the more recent past. This to me spoke to the fact that we need to help students see what the past was and work to do better and be better. Students spoke of race and the differences in how races are treated as something that needs to be recognized and addressed.

Ms. Cooper
High School Teacher, Las Vegas, NV


Frequently Asked Questions

Did you know that the number 306 has significance in Black history? When Dr. Martin Luther King stayed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the site of his assassination in 1968, he preferred to stay in room 306. To support creative and intellectual expression during the Harlem Renaissance, artist Charles Alston founded “Group 306.” And when the Supreme Court issued its decision in the Dred Scott v. Sanford Case, it was on March 6, 1857. This common thread and countless key moments in Black History are often left out of textbooks.

EVERFI has built a network of partners and sponsors who help fund our digital resources for your school or district. Through multi-year commitments, EVERFI partners give teachers and administrators the assurance that programming can be launched at scale and even written into the curriculum.

306: African-American History's lessons are aligned to Common Core ELA & State Academic Social Studies Standards. EVERFI provides comprehensive curriculum guides and standards alignment guides to help you plan for implementation.

EVERFI helps teachers, schools, and districts bring real-world skills to students. Thanks to partners, we provide our digital platform, training, and support at no cost.

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