The
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOSAIC - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for
the Study of Black History & Culture
African American Odyssey ...explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes: the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century; depictions of the long and still incomplete struggle for equality in employment, education and politics; strategies used to secure the vote; recognition of outstanding black leaders; and the contributions of sports figures, black soldiers, artists, actors, writers and others in the fight against segregation and discrimination.
American
Slave Narratives provides photographs and excerpts of selected interviews
with former slaves conducted by the Works Progress Administration during
the 1930s.
“Black Voting Rights:
The Creation of the 15th Amendment- The primary source materials
for this website are taken from the pages of Harper’s Weekly,
the leading American illustrated newspaper in the second-half of the
nineteenth century. The items include editorials by George William Curtis,
cartoons ...
A Roadmap
to African-American and Diversity - Learn about African-American
and Diversity Resource links that you can visit on the Internet. The
sites offer a range of resources: connecting you to pages where you
can access both primary and secondary documents, databases, archives,
libraries, maps,
African Voices
- explores the diversity and global influence of Africa’s cultures
on work, family, community, and the natural environment. Sculptures,
textiles, and other objects are included, as are video and audio interviews,
literature, proverbs, prayers, folk tales...
Africans in America - America’s journey through slavery is presented in four parts.
For each era, you’ll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank
of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a
Teacher’s Guide for using the content of the
Black History Month
- Infoplease.com celebrates Black History Month with a collection of
features, biographies, reference...
Black
History Month free resource site - a collection of activities and
information to complement classroom topics. Within this site, teachers
and students can: Read biographies of significant African-American individuals
Take a Black History Month quiz Follow a timeline of events that hel
Black
Studies, CUNY - Abolition Genealogy & Family History... The Montgomery
Bus Boycott... Affirmative Action... General Resources... Music... Africa The Great
Migration... Oral/Personal Histories... The Amistad Case... Harlem Renaissance...
Photography... Baseball ...Health... Politics...
Breaking racial barriers
- In 1944 the Harmon Foundation, then under the direction of Mary Beattie
Brady, organized an exhibition "Portraits of Outstanding Americans
of Negro Origin," with the express goal of reversing racial intolerance,
ignorance and bigotry by illustra
Celebration
of black history - a month of remembering
Civil
Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive includes interviews with Fanny
Lou Hamer, Sandra Adickes, and other women and men in Mississippi. Site
includes transcripts and some audio clips.
Flight
to Freedom - We hope you find this website educational. We warn
you: it may not always be pleasant... game taken from the pages of history
— from the words of those who actually escaped servitude to write
their own stories
Lest We
Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery - A travelling exhibit from the
Schomberg Center
The Little Rock Nine: 50 Years Later ...See current portraits of seven of the Little Rock Nine and listen to remembrances of their experiences as the first African Americans to enroll in the previously segregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
National
Geographic: The Underground Railroad - Retrace the perilous route
taken by slaves and the network of people who helped in their trek to
freedom.
Patchwork
of African-American Life...six Web sites were created as models
to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing
into classroom learning...separate formats designed to support different
kinds of learning
Photographs
of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination - Photographs of Signs
Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm From the American
Memory site; Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers
Say
It Plain American Radio Works brings to the Web its hour-long documentary
on 12 of the most compelling black speeches recorded. You can listen
to the entire program, read the transcript, or hear audio of the individual
speeches.
Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture - The Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting,
preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences
of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
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African-American Mosaic - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for
the Study of Black History and Culture |
