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- African American History and Culture
- A gateway to Smithsonian Institution web sites related to African American History and Culture. (Source: Smithsonian Institution)
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- African American History in the American West
- African American History in the American West is an excellent source for information about the contributions of Blacks in the Western United States. The site includes a bibliography, biographies of significant people and places, and links to research guides and web sites.
(Source: Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr.
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt
Professor of American History, University of Washington, Seattle)
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- African American History Month
- This site highlights the African-American history and cultural resources available through the Library of Congress’s online collections. The site includes links to featured online exhibits and collections, a history of Black History Month, historical profiles, featured news and events, teacher guides, and much more. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- African American Lives
- This site contains information about the PBS television program African American Lives, which looks into the challenges of tracing family and genealogical roots for African Americans. The site features profiles of celebrity participants as well as resources for educators and genealogical researchers. (Source: PBS)
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- African-American Mosaic, The
- This site is an online exhibit and web companion to the book The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. The site also features several links to various historical categories including abolition, migration, and the WPA. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- African-American World
- This site is a "mini" encyclopedia of African American history and culture. It contains biographical sketches and brief overviews of topics in Black history from Encyclopedia Britannica. It features links to PBS web sites exploring African Americans in arts, business, history, politics and science. The site also provides a gateway to National Public Radio stories related to African Americans. The site features educational resources, a chronology, and a search function. (Source: PBS)
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- AL--Michigan State University Libraries Digital Collections – American Radicalism – Scottsboro Boys
- This collection contains materials about nine African American boys convicted of rape in 1931 by an all-white jury and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the ruling. Links on the page provide access to full-text primary documents relating to the case. (Source: Michigan State University Libraries)
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- Bibliographic Essay on the African American West
- This site provides the full-text of an article about African Americans in the western United States. (Source: National Park Service)
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- Black Press: Soldiers without Swords, The
- This site contains information about the documentary film The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords, which aired on PBS. In addition, the site features many supplementary materials such as a timeline, biographies, and an interactive educational quiz. (Source: PBS)
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- BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed: An Online Reference Guide to African American History
- Black Past serves as an online reference collection of materials on African American history. Featured are online encyclopedia entries of people and events, full text primary documents, links to museums and digital collections throughout the country, an extensive bibliography, and research guides on a wide variety of topics. (Source: University of Washington)
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- Culture & Change Black History in America
- This site provides a resource of information on a variety of topics related to black history in America. Included are articles on influential events and figures, an interactive historical timeline, online exhibits including an audio history of jazz, recommended research topics, and links to other online resources. (Source: Scholastic)
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- Encyclopædia Britannica’s Guide to Black History
- Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History “represents an effort to trace the African American experience and achievements in the United States and elsewhere.” This online resource features a timeline, biographies of influential figures, images, information on primary documents, audio and video files, and subject browsing by topic for all entries related to black history. (Source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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- Exhibit of American Negroes: 1900 World’s Fair, The
- “The Exhibit of American Negroes is a reconstruction of highlights from an exhibit of the same name put together by W. E. B. Du Bois, Thomas Calloway and the Historic Black Colleges for the Paris 1900 International Exposition.” The site features primary materials, including photographs and manuscript documents, as well as essays that give historical context to the materials presented in the exhibit. (Source: University of Miami, School of Education)
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- Freedom's Journal
- The Freedom's Journal was a weekly newspaper published from 1827 to 1829 in New York City. It was the first African American owned and operated newspaper. (Source: The Wisconsin Historical Society)
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- From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African American History
- This site provides information on items in the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress relating to African American history. The site is organized by time period and features personal letters, photographs, newspaper articles, pamphlets, and much more. Also included is a section of links to online resources for teachers. (Source: The Library of Congress)
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- H-Afro-Am
- H-Afro-Am discusses issues related to African American Studies. (Source: H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University)
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- Look Again: African American History is American History
- This webpage accompanies the Rosenbach Museum and Library’s exhibit of the same name which focuses on African American historical collections including books, manuscripts, and various arts and artifacts. The site includes an exhibit overview as well as event and programs information. (Source: Rosenbach Museum and Library)
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- Maynard Institute History Project
- The Maynard Institute History Project, focusing on the Black Journalists Movement, “documents and preserves the stories of those courageous African American journalists who broke into general circulation media during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.” The site features oral history interview clips with influential African American journalists, with new video clips added online each month. (Source: Maynard Institute)
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- MI--American Black Journal
- American Black Journal, originally Colored People’s Time, went on the air in 1969 to provide Detroit's African Americans with media related to the Black experience in the city. The program, which covers a broad range of issues from arts and entertainment to politics and world news. Links to audio and visual content from the show's history are available on the site. (Source: WTVS-Detroit)
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- Michigan State University Libraries Digital Collections – MSU Student Activism – Black Activism
- Michigan State University’s Black Student Alliance, BSA, was founded in 1969. Full-text links to documents produced by Michigan State’s BSU are located at this site. (Source: Michigan State University Libraries)
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- Michigan State University Libraries Digital Collections – Sunday School Books – Slavery, African-Americans, Native Americans
- This site guides readers to 19th century Sunday school books addressing slavery and African Americans. These texts came at a time when abolitionists urged the American Sunday School Union and other religious groups to take a stance against slavery. (Source: Michigan State University Libraries)
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- NYPL Digital Gallery – Africana and Black History
- This website presents the NYPL Digital Gallery’s Africana and Black History collection of digitized photographs and historical documents. "The collection is comprised of several thousand items relating to African-American history from the sixteenth century to the present." The collection may be searched or browsed, and the website includes links to related subjects in the Digital Gallery and the library divisions that hold each item in the collection. (Source: The New York Public Library)
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- Official Kwanzaa Web Site: Kwanzaa, A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture, The
- This site contains an archive of messages from the founder of Kwanzaa, Dr. Maulana Karenga, as well as information regarding all aspects of the holiday. (Source: OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org)
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- Portal for African American Pamphlets
- “The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library at Emory University houses several thousand 19th and 20th century pamphlets relating broadly to African American religion and politics.” The site allows the user to browse pamphlets by subject including pamphlets with an African American author, publisher, or illustrator. Under “About” are links to other collections of African American pamphlets. (Source: Emory University)
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- Remember Segregation
- This site contains information about the history of racial segregation in the United States. The site features many harrowing and thought-provoking images and facts, including a timeline, gallery, a biography and audio files of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as further sources for research. (Source: DDB Worldwide Communications)
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- Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
- This site contains information about the four-part documentary series The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. This site features biographies and personal narratives (both available as sound files); interactive maps, tools, and games; and educational resources for teachers. (Source: PBS)
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- Say Brother
- This site is the online companion to WGBH Boston’s program Basic Black, the station’s “longest running public affairs television program by, for, and about African Americans”. Included online is historical information from the WGBH Media Archives arranged by name, topic, and program number, as well as a detailed history of the program, which began airing in 1968. (Source: WGBH)
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- Say it Plain - A Century of Great African American Speeches
- This site features important speeches made by African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesse Jackson. Included in each entry is a biographical essay of the speaker, a transcript of the selected speech, and an audiofile of the speech. (Source: American Public Media)
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- The Making of African American Identity: Volume I, 1619-1865
- This website offers dozens of primary resources, including letters, official documents, prose, photographs, visual arts, and audio, all relating to the overall topic of African American identity in the period between 1500-1865. The resources are organized into themes (Freedom, Enslavement, Community, Identity, and Emancipation) which include notes and discussion questions. The site also contains a listing of online resources and tools for teachers and students. (Source: Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center)
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- The Making of African American Identity: Volume II, 1865-1917
- This website offers 75 primary resources, including poems, historical documents, prose, songs, visual arts, and film, all relating to the overall topic of African American identity in the period between 1865-1917. The resources are organized into themes (Freedom, Identity, Institutions, Politics, and Forward) which include notes and discussion questions. The site also contains a timeline of African American history 1860-1920 and a listing of online resources. (Source: Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center)
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- The Making of African American Identity: Volume III, 1917-1968
- This website offers dozens of primary resources, including articles, official documents, literary works, photographs, and visual arts, all relating to the overall topic of African American identity in the period between 1917-1968. The resources are organized into themes (Segregation, Migration, Protest, Community, and Overcome?) which include notes and discussion questions. The site also contains a listing of online resources and tools for teachers and students. (Source: Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center)
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- The NYPL Picture Collection Online
- The New York Public Library Picture Collection Online is comprised of digitized images from the NYPL Picture Collection. It includes illustrations from books, newspapers and magazines as well as photographs, prints and postcards, all of which are organized by subject. The Collection includes substantial holdings on African American subjects and may be browsed or searched. (Source: The New York Public Library)
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- Toward Racial Equality: Harper’s Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
- This detailed and informative site contains digitized images and articles from Harper’s Weekly that involve African Americans. The site is divided into three time periods: slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Each section contains an in-depth timeline, along with a variety of illustrations from the magazines with explanatory text. The site is navigable in several different ways, including by time period, illustrations, and timelines; there is also a section on culture and society. (Source: Harpweek)
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- U.S. History - African-American: Lesson Plans
- This site contains links to lesson plans for all grade levels that deal with different aspects of African American history. The site features a variety of subjects, from literature and drama to the arts and music. (Source: National Endowment for the Humanities)
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