New Sites

Featured New Sites, Week of November 17, 2009 - November 24, 2009.

Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago's Hidden Archives

Contains archival materials of mid-20th century African-American Chicago culture, including primary source documents and finding aids.

MD--African-American History in Allegany County

Contains an extensive collection of over 400 annotated photographs documenting the history of African-Americans in rural Allegany County, Maryland.

NOBCChE: National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers

The website of a non-profit professional organization of African-American chemists and chemical engineers. Offers numerous career services and networking resources.

Physicists of the African Diaspora

This page contains links to resources about Black physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, and computer scientists. Contains biographical, historical, and media information.

Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

A collaborative project of Emory University and other institutions, this is an interactive database of 19th-century slave voyages across the Atlantic. It contains information on over 34,000 voyages and 67,000 captives.

Virginia Emigrants to Liberia Project

Between 1820 and 1865 more than 3700 African Americans from Virginia emigrated to Liberia. This project contains two searchable databases for emigrants and emancipators, along with links to resources about Liberia.

The Passage to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Bucks, Burlington, and Montgomery Counties

This is a virtual exhibit of information on the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with information on Railroad origins, history, legal issues, and famous personalities. It also includes the section "Unbound: Profiles in Black History", which contains biographies of famous African-Americans.

Black Stars to Gold Stripes

This is the virtual version of three exhibits at the U.S. Naval Academy: The Navy's Black Admirals, NASA's Black Astronauts, and Blacks in Aviation. Each exhibit contains biographies of exceptional African-Americans in each field.

Famous Black Inventors

Set up by an inventor services company, with website profiles 18 influential African-American inventors, both modern and historical. It also contains "The Black Inventor Online Museum", which contains short biographies of dozens of lesser-known black inventors.

James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938

The Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina features a collection of books and manuscripts by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson, 1871-1938, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, schooled in Atlanta, Georgia, lived in New York, was a diplomat in Central America and later moved back to the United States.

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