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African American History & Studies

Digital Librarian: African Americans

Encyclopedia Smithsonian:  African American History and Culture
    

ARTS & CULTURE

SEE ALSO Literature: African American

African Music and Dance

Archives of African American Music and Culture: Internet Resources (Indiana University)

At the Crossroads: Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami

The Black Arts Movement

The Black Book Review Online

Harlem 1900-1940  (Schomburg Exhibition)

Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line

Rhapsodies in Black

Santeria (University of Virginia Library)
See also profiles for other religious groups

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanian Kente and African American Identity
A virtual exhibit from the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

    

BUSINESS & SCIENCE

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
    

EDUCATION

African-American Studies @University of California/Berkeley

Black Collegian Online: The Career Site for Students of Color

Black Excel: The College Help Network

Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
    

GENEALOGY

The African-Native American History & Genealogy WebPage

AfriGeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy
    

HISTORY

SEE ALSO:  African Studies: History   |  Slavery

The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

African American Odyssey

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection
See also links to Timeline of African American History 1852-1925

African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1963-1974
-- Online Archive of California Digital Library photograph collection

African Americans in WWII

AFRO-American Almanac

Black Panther Party: It's About Time

Black Panthers
Sponsored by the Huey P. Newton Foundation
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BlackPast: Remembered and Reclaimed (Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington)
Covers six centuries of African American history. 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.

Black Seminoles in Texas and Mexico

Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

Documenting the American South: Primary Resources for the Study of Southern History, Literature and Culture

The Dred Scott Case

Explorations in Black Leadership

Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America 1857-1874

Historical Text Archive: African Americans

History of Jim Crow

The History Place: African Americans in World War II

In Motion: the African American Migration Experience
Includes maps, text and images

Juneteenth World Wide Celebration

We Shall Overcome
H
istoric Places of the Civil Rights Movement
    

LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS

MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora)

Moorland Spingarn Research Center

National Civil Rights Museum

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    
         

ORGANIZATIONS

African American Yearbook
Search database to get list of organizations, publications, radio stations and churches

Congressional Black Caucus

NAACP Online

National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications

Nation of Islam

National Urban League
        

SLAVERY

SEE ALSO: History

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

Amistad at Mystic Seaport

Amistad Research Center

The Antislavery Literature Project (Arizona State University)
Dedicated to the history of slavery and antislavery movements and the rich literature associated with it: slave narratives, letters, manifestos, poems, fiction, etc. Has some links to information about modern day slavery.

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

Chronology of American Slavery
Based on "Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism" by Eddie Becker

Dinsmore Documentation: Classics on American Slavery
Includes articles,  primary sources & online books (such as The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice by William Goodell)

E-Text Center Collections: African American (University of Virginia)
Includes some primary sources.

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition  (Yale University)

Making of America: Books
A digital library of over 9,000 primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Use "Other Searches in MoA" link to search by subject for slavery.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Secret Routes to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Experience

A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie

Slave-Studies.Net: A Portal for Research & Education
Provides links and search engine for study of slavery and abolition across the world and historical time periods. The Publications section includes many primary texts, some in English, some in other languages.

Slavery Timeline

Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories [RealOnePlayer]  

WPA Oral History Narratives
- - search on  "slavery" and related words

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