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This set of 20 cards are designed to both provide education about events and people important to African American history as well as to generation discussions about topics relevant to today's society. On front of each card is a fact or an important person. On the back is 3-4 discussion questions linked to the fact/person or to current societal questions.

Recommended Age: The cards can be used for fourth or fifth grade through adults.

Sponsor a Discussion Set: Purchase a card set for a nonprofit, library, community group, church or classroom and if you let us know (form on the right), we will include a card saying that you donated it to them.

Card Topics

Fighting for Freedom: Enslaved people escape in 1526
Enslaved People: Arrival in 1619 in Jamestown, VA
American Culture: The American front porch
White Allies: Quaker protest
Protesting: Stono Rebellion
Finding Community: The Black Church
Early Sacrifices: Crispus Attucks
Rights: 13,14, and 15th Amendments
Segregaton: Jim Crow and Sundown towns
Representation: Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment
Post-Racial Society: Barack Obama and Colin Kaepernick
Women Who Sat: Elizabeth Jennings Graham, Ida B. Wells & Irene Morgan
American Ingenuity: Elijah McCoy
Lost in History: William Monroe Trotter
Medical Pioneering: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Business: Madam C.J. Walker
The Arts: Sydney Poitier, Halle Barry & Danzel Washington
Integrating Sports: Jack Johnson, Althea Gibson, Charlie Sifford & Curtis Flood
Power of Education: Rhodes Scholars
Role of Politics: Shirley Chisholm