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HISTORY AND CULTURE
- About.com: African-American
History
Comprehensive site offering primary source documents, biographical
sketches, photographs, and topics such as the Harlem Renaissance,
Underground Railroad, and the Civil Rights Movement.
- African
American Mosaic
Resource guide from the Library of Congress.
- African
American Odyssey
Presents rare and unique items from the Library of Congress,
including the Frederick Douglass Papers and the WPA Slave Narratives.
- African American
World
PBS site with features on history, society, arts and culture.
- Africans in
America
America's journey through slavery, with historical narratives,
resource banks and teachers' guides, from PBS.
- Documenting the American
South
University of North Carolina collection of sources on southern history, including slave narratives
and the Black church.
- Faces
of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Biographies of African American scientists, inventors, mathematicians,
engineers, and physicians, past and present.
- Freedmen's Bureau Online
Online transcriptions of Freedmen's Bureau records.
- The Gilder Lehrman
Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Yale University site featuring the Amistad case and over 200
online documents, including speeches, letters, articles and
graphics.
- International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, England
Examines the slave trade and the Middle Passage.
- The Internet African
American History Challenge
An interactive African American history quiz.
- Martin Luther
King, Jr., Papers Project
Includes major speeches, audioclips, a timeline and an encyclopedia
on Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement.
- Race
and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South
University of Virginia's online archive of an African American
town, including oral histories, photographs and letters.
- Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture
National research library site, including online exhibits and
digital resources.
- Underground
Railroad
National Geographic site includes a timeline, brief biographies
and classroom ideas.
LOCAL HISTORY
EDUCATION
GENEALOGY
BOOKS
NEWS AND OPINION
- BET.com
Entertainment and lifestyle information.
- BlackPressUSA.com
Provides national and local news, opinion, and a history feature.
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