Explore our curated African American History Month resources, including updated and new materials on racial justice, nonviolent protest, influential Civil Rights leaders, and the arts.

Engage your classroom, parish, or community with interactive activities, thought-provoking reflections, and meaningful prayers that connect the history of the Civil Rights movement to today’s social justice issues.

• Activity: Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Creative Voice: Celebrating African American History Month (Donna Toliver Grimes)
• Creative Voice: A Story of Faith for Times Like These (The Rev. Dr. Kelly Douglas Brown)
• Fact Sheet: Rosa McCauley Parks: Taking a Stand for Justice
• Film Discussion Guide: Kill the Messenger
• Film Discussion Guide: Endgame: AIDS in Black America 
• Film Discussion Guide: Selma
• Film Discussion Guide: Loving
• Film Discussion Guide: 13th
• Film Discussion Guide: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Film Discussion Guide: Marshall
• Lesson Plan: Rosa Parks: A Mighty Witness
• Litany: Remembering Those Who Prepared the Land and Those Who Grew the Civil Rights Movement
• Litany: Celebrating Brave, Visionary Poets
• Prayer Service for Black History Month
• Prayer Service: Majora Carter
• Praying with Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Prayer: In Memory of Rosa Parks, A Role Model for Justice and Peace
• Prayer: In Memory of Coretta Scott King
• Prayer to St. Martin de Porres (English & Spanish)
• Reflection: Grace Heard Singing: Sister Thea Bowman
• Reflections on Peace, Justice and Hope from Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Reflection: Rosa Parks: Overcoming Fear for the Sake of Justice
• Reflection: Medgar Evers
• Reflection: Freedom Riders