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On February 1, the Schomburg Center will join thousands of schools, libraries, and education institutions nationwide for Digital Learning Day—sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education—for a celebration of innovative teaching and learning using digital media and technology.  Digital Schomburg offers you the Schomburg Center’s premiere educational resources about African-American History and the Global Black Experience in multi-media digital formats including: Online exhibitions, digital books, images and illustrations, and links to related free web resources. From the transatlantic slave trade to the Harlem Renaissance, from the Great Migration to Caribbean independence, from the Civil Rights Movement to 21^st century Africa, discover tens of thousands of images, scholarly essays, innovative maps, and lesson plans.

Jump into Digital Schomburg today via these online exhibitions:

 In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience 

The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave trade: The Forgotten Story

Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20^th Century

The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World

African Americans and American Politics

Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery

Harlem 1900-1940

Wherever you are in the world, the Schomburg Center is just a click away at: www.schomburgcenter.org

For more information about the Schomburg’s Education Programs, email schomburged@nypl.org

BUT YALL, these are actually AMAZING!

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