Welcome to the Charles H. Wright Education and Public Programs Website, a new resource to serve educators, students, and families better through digital and Internet technologies.  This Website provides an overview of the Museum’s education and public programs, information on how to plan a visit, online teaching and learning materials, virtual tours of traveling exhibitions, online catalogs of the library and historical collections, and a calendar of exhibition schedules and educational programs. 
The Museum’s Education and Public Program staff plans to continue expanding and enhancing the content on this Website to serve its audiences better and educate the world about African American history and culture.  

Designed to complement an area of the ‘And Still We Rise’ Core Exhibition: 

Documenting The Great Migration
  • Interactive Timeline – 1865- 1950
  • Oral History Video Clips
  • Downloadable timeline entries

The ‘Living History Webpage’ was made possible by funding from the Knight Foundation.

Series 1:  Ancient West African History for Grade 5 and above

Journey back in time with the help of Willy Turnip and his friends and family

  • Module Videos and Games
  • Interactive Timeline- 500 BCE to 1800 CE
  • Interactive Map
  • Multimedia Glossary
  • Teacher’s Guide

The ‘African American History Teaching and Learning Modules’ are made possible through support by the Whitney Fund.

Access library resources, manuscripts and photograph collections that support the study of Africa and the African American Experience.

  • Search our Online Catalog
  • Browse our Finding Aids that include biographies, scope & contents, names/subjects, etc. and more information about each collection

Collections are non-circulating;
in-house use only

Experience Online versions of traveling exhibitions currently visiting the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History:

Online versions are created by museum staff and are made possible by IBM and the AT&T Fund.