Black History and African American Resources
Sites of Interest
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King Biographical information about Coretta Scott King, founding president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Includes details about her involvement in the causes of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. and her activities after
his assassination in 1968. Also find essays on Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence, and related topics. From the Martin Luther King Papers Project, Stanford University. (LII)
General African-American Resources
- 25 African Americans You Need to Know "These twenty-five African Americans have left their mark on the nation and the world. This diverse group has another thing in common -— they have all called Michigan home. How many can you list before you check the web page? Courtesy of Michigan History Online." (RT)
- African American Archaeology, History and Cultures "This web site is designed to provide convenient access to online presentations and resources concerning the subjects of African American archaeology, history and cultures, and broader subjects of African diaspora archaeology." (LII)
- African American World "African American World tries to cover all things Black or African American" (LII)
- African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections "Archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women ... includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia." (LII)
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century 'This collection of about 50 works provides "access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920."' (LII)
- Africana.com: The Digital Bridge "Africana.com was founded in 1999 to present "information and commentary reflecting the diverse concerns of people of African descent.""
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) "to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community." (LII)
- Guide to African American Documentary Resources "A highly selective collection of over 80 annotated links to sites "relating to African American history," " (LII)
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection 1818-1907 (LII)
- African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920 "This digital collection from Brown University takes a look at the sheet music that reflected attitudes towards African-Americans." (SR)
- African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts "created by the Massachusetts Historical Society brings together a number of primary documents that tell the stories of African Americans and abolitionist movements in the commonwealth." (SR)
- The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House: African American Women Unite For Change "During her long life, Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, social activist, and prominent leader in the women's rights movement. This latest installment in the National Park Service's "Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans" centers on her council House in Washington, D.C., and is a fine resource for history teachers and those with a general interest in American history. The Council House happens to be where the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) was located for over twenty years, and a number of important discussions regarding the integration of the military took place here. Visitors to the site will want to take a look at the historical essay on the house before getting started, and then they will want to look at the readings on Bethune and the NCNW. The lesson also includes a host of visual images along with some fine classroom activities and discussion questions." (SR)
- Black Inventor Online Museum "brief information about dozens of Black inventors from the United States". (LII)
- Biography.com Celebrates Black History Month report length biographies. (LII)
- The Avalon Project: African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History many transcripts of important speeches and books by African Americans. (SR)
- Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography (LII)
- Black Facts Online "online database of Black History information." (LII)
- Black History Daily "promoting Black History 365 days of the year"
- Black History: Exploring African-American Issues "This collection of educational Web activities showcases five different ways the Internet can be integrated into classroom learning."
- BlackPast: Remembered and Reclaimed "Professor Quintard Taylor of the University of Washington and his colleagues have created this very fine online resource that covers six centuries of African American history. The site includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African America, along with full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the eighteenth century to the present. Visitors should make sure and visit the "Perspectives on African American History" area, which includes rather fascinating pieces such as "Gentrification, Integration or Displacement?: The Seattle Story" and "Juneteenth: The Birth of an African American Holiday". The site merits numerous return visits, and those with a penchant for African American history, and United States history in general, will find some stellar materials here." (SR)
- Black History: Resources exploring black history in Michigan, including online exhibits, teacher's guides and Michigan History magazine articles.
- Michigan Historical Markers-Black History: Provides background information, a photograph and a map for each site.
- Black History Month Resources a directory of resources. (LII)
- A Black Panther Chronology From Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley. (LII)
- BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed "This site provides "reference materials to the general public on six centuries of African
American history. It includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African America, full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present." Searchable, or browse encyclopedia articles about people, places, churches, events, and organizations. Directed by an African American history professor at the University of Washington." (SR)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress (SR)
- Frederick Douglass-- 1817?-1895 papers at the Library of Congress (LII)
- The Internet African
American History Challenge "The Internet African American History Challenge is an interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of [19th century] African American History."
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent database of sounds and pictures.
- The African-American Journey From PBS
- African-American Biographies
- African-American Mosaic Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University "Over 1,300 pieces of music associated with antebellum black face minstrelsy, the abolitionist movement, the Civil War, and on into the twentieth century."
- Africa Resource Center "offers a wealth of Africa resources, including several... ejournals, databases, bibliographies, an online art gallery, and more."
- African Studies Home Page
- African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal of African Studies (ASQ) "ASQ is an interdisciplinary, fully refereed, online journal dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship relating to the African continent." (LII)
- American Anti-Slavery Group Information on Slavery in the world today.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record Funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (SR)
- Black History Publish your own Black History story.
- Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web Contains a "Black History Treasure Hunt" and 13 other activities.
- Black History Month From InfoPlease. Biographies, timelines, and other information.
- The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords [RealPlayer, Shockwave] from PBS
- Sampling African America Creative activities for children.
- Black History Hotlist
- Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site commemorates "the landmark [1954] Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools." (LII)
- Celebrating Black History from Time-Life (LII)
- Crafting Freedom: African Americans, 1800-1870 '"This site's goal is to serve as a guide on how to research lesser-known black Americans, both slave and free, "to get a broader understanding of African American living and working environment between 1800 and 1870."' (LII)
- Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920. (SR)
- Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport.
- Famous Firsts by African Americans "List of firsts by African Americans, such as "the first African-American billionaire, combat pilot, Nobel Prize winner, poet laureate, Oscar winner, and Miss America." Browse list by category such as government (such as Barack Obama, first African American to head a major party ticket in a presidential election), law, diplomacy, military, science and medicine, scholarship, literature, film, sports, and more. Includes links to related material. From Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease. Note: Generates pop-ups." (LII)
- The Frederick Douglass Papers From the Library of Congress (SR)
- Freedom's Journal the "first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829....All 103 issues of the Freedom's Journal have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format." (LII)
- Freedmen and Southern Society Project
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 from the Library of Congress, pamphlets "by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics." (LII)
- Furman University Documents Project Full text searching of speeches and newspaper accounts.
- Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts "The state of Massachusetts played a major role in the American antislavery movement, and for a number of decades, the epicenter of this movement was in Boston. The Massachusetts Historical Society created this website in order to highlight some of the visual materials from their collection that deal with this facet of American history. Visitors to the site can look over digital images of 840 items, which include paintings, sculptures, banners, and broadsides. Items featured within this archive include formal portraits of noted lawyer Wendell Phillips, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and Senator Charles Sumner. Additionally, visitors can also view a ticket to the 1857 Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society speech and a diagram of a plan for resisting the fugitive slave law." (SR)
- The Legacy of George Washington Carver "This presentation celebrates "the legacy of [Iowa State University's] first African American student and faculty member, George Washington Carver [who was] renowned for developing innovative uses for a variety of agricultural crops such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes." Features a biography, images, bibliography, select correspondence of Carver, peanut uses and recipes from a 1925 publication, and other material about Carver and his agricultural research. From the Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library." (LII)
- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition "dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction." (LII)
- Hartford Black History Project: A Struggle from the Start A history of african americans in Hartford Connecticut.
- Human Rights Library Full text of the 1896 and 1956 International Conventions on Slavery.
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience [Macromedia Flash Player] "gathers a massive amount of material documenting African-American migrations from the 15th to the 21st centuries-more than 16,500 pages of texts, over 8,000 pictures, accompanied by more than 60 maps." (SR)
- International Black Index Source Directory
- The Internet African American History Challenge take a quiz at this site. (LII)
- International Slavery Museum "Website for this British museum in Liverpool that opened in 2007, the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. The museum "explores both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery." The site provides images of highlights from the collection, a history of the transatlantic slave trade, and an interactive feature that follows four Africans on a sinking slave ship." (LII)
- JavaNoir "A guide to African American resources on the Web; searchable and browsable." (LII)
- _Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies_ [.pdf] "Published by Africa Resource Center and directed by an all-African women team of co-editors, this new ejournal represents in part an effort to occupy and redefine the space of African Women's studies".
- Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia to "promote racial tolerance by helping people understand the historical and contemporary expressions of intolerance." (LII)
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Jump, Jim Crow; or, What Difference Did Emancipation Make? "Explores the influence of the Emancipation Proclamation on African American life in the United States, from 1865 through the 1960s." (LII)
- K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet
- The Last Slave Ships: Key West African Cemetery From the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. (LII)
- Legends of Tuskegee: American Visionaries "This site highlights the achievements of individuals associated with the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers in the 1880s. Features biographical material, photos, and bibliographies for educator Booker T. Washington, educator and scientist George Washington Carver, and the Tuskegee Airmen, the World War II "Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft." From the National Park Service (NPS)." (LII)
- African American History Month "February is African American History Month, and, as the Library of Congress
site notes, it's an area of history that should be incorporated into all discussions about American history. The Library of Congress listened to its own advice and created this most useful site to help students, teachers, and others to do just that. First-time visitors may wish to click on the "African American Voices" to hear audio clips from the Queen of Buganda, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's appearance at the Library's Book Fest, and many others. Moving down the homepage, visitors can read about a number of notable African Americans, including historian Carter G. Woodson and Congressman Major Owens. By clicking on the "Collections" area visitors can look through some of the digital collections related to various aspects of African American history. Additionally, the site also has other sections that provide primary materials on African Americans in the performing arts as well as oral histories from the Veterans History Project." (SR)
- Malcolm X "Integration and the Black Muslims".
- The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University "A "multimedia version of 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' ... which features interactive visual presentations of Malcolm X's life and times." While access to the autobiography is limited to Columbia students, the site provides free access to a chronology, selected video clips, oral histories, and government documents. From the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University." (LII)
- Look Back, Ponder, and Move On: Glimpses of the African-American Experience in Savannah, 1750-1900 Drawn from an exhibit first presented at The Beach Institute, Savannah, GA.
- Michigan Black History Information from the State of Michigan (RT)
- Minority Business Development Agency [pdf] 'the sole federal agency created "to foster the creation, growth, and expansion of minority-owned businesses in America." ' (SR)
- Moments in Black History: 365 Days of African American History "Offers a daily sample of historic African American events for the current day, the previous day, and the following day." (LII)
- This Day in Black History "a community driven, interactive online periodical about the black experience."
- National Archives Transcriptions and copies of the Emancipation Proclamation.
- NAACP.ORG National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Negro Baseball Leagues
- Negrospirituals.com "presents a brief narrative of the development of spirituals sung by blacks in the United States along with information about singers, songs, and composers. It includes a searchable and browsable list of songs with lyrics." (LII)
- Our Shared History: African American Heritage "This site showcases United States National Park Service (NPS) resources related to African American history and culture." (LII)
- Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
- A Roadmap to African-American Resources links organized by region and topic. (LII)
- The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony [.pdf] "created by University of Virginia professor Patricia C. Click, presents an account of the history and selected documents and maps of the Roanoke Island Freedmens Colony..." (SR)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Slave Narratives [Macromedia Flash Player] "Created by the Museum of the African Diaspora (based in San Francisco), the site features an innovative interface that allows users to roll over a series of multicolored dots to learn about the first-hand perspectives of slaves such as Francis Bok, Mary Prince, Fountain Hughes, Harriet Jacobs, and Juan Francisco Manzano." (SR)
- Slaves and the Courts from the Library of Congress, includes "pamphlets and books documenting the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the United States and American colonies. Resources include trial arguments, examinations of cases and decisions, proceeding, and other materials concerning slavery and the slave trade. " (RB)
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record "...a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World." (BWN)
- Slave Trade Archives [pdf] "The Slave Trade Archive Project was created in order to improve access to original documents related to the transatlantic slave trade and slavery across both hemispheres." (SR)
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition "dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction." (SR)
- The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History: Guide to the Web Compilation of annotated links to hundreds of websites about "African, African American, and African Diaspora history and culture. ... The topics covered range from the
underground railroad to hip hop music." Other subjects include civil rights, education, health, literature, military, religion, slavery, sports, and women. From the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. (LII)
- Teaching African American History in the 21st Century
- "The Triple Nickles": The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 1944-1947 History, photographs, names, functions, and other information on this battalion of Black paratroopers. (LII)
- Honor Thy Father: A Tuskegee Airman a daugher's tribute to her father. (STN)
- Legends of Tuskegee "This National Parks Service web exhibit honors three legends: Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and the Tuskegee Airmen." (STN)
- Lonely Eagles "This illustrated article from Airman magazine includes interviews with four Tuskegee Airmen, who explore the obstacles they overcame, and their accomplishments." (STN)
- Valley of the Shadow Transcripts of original slave narratives.
- History Happens: On an Underground Railroad This site has music and a music video.
- Underground Railroad @ National Geographic A virtual journey for all ages.
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center "a timeline dating from 1501 - 1865, a list of major players and contributors of the Underground Railroad Movement along with brief descriptions, and a list of related resources on each individual." (SR)
- Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories "provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s." (LII)
- Booker T. Washington Papers searchable site, includes an autobiography, letters, and other papers. (LII)
- We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement"Background, interactive maps, a list of sites and more about several dozen houses, schools, churches, and buildings associated with civil rights activism and events. Brief text places each building in historical context. Includes a reading list and related links. Searchable and browsable. From the U.S. National Park Service." (LII)
- Carter Godwin Woodson: "Father of Black History" From the Chicago Public Library (LII)
Sister to Sister: Black Women's Empowerment A selected list of books available at Hackley Public Library of interest to Black Women.
African American Women's History A directory of sites about "the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights." (LII)
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