Africa & African-Americans Resources

Biographies | Art Resources | Civil Rights Movement
General Resources | History Resources | Slavery Resources

 Biographies

African-American Biographies

Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Antislavery Labours in the United States, Canada and England (Samuel Ringgold Ward)

Biography.com—Black History

Birthplace of a Leader: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Black History Month: Biographies

First Successful Black Filmmaker: Oscar Micheaux

History Channel—Black History Month Biographies & Resources

Jackie Robinson

Langston Hughes

Top Ten African-American Inventors

Art Resources

African-American Museum in Philadelphia

African-American Pamphlets, 1818-1907

African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century

African-American Writers: Online E-texts

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992

African Voices

Africlassical.com: Composers & Musicians of African Descent

Afrocentric Art Gallery

Archives of African-American Music & Culture

Art of Haiti

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (PBS)

The Birmingham-Pittsburgh Traveler Newspaper

"A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African-American Daguerreotypist"

Harlem Renaissance: Carl van Vechten Photographs1932-1964 (Library of Congress)

Harper’s Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874

Images of African-Americans from the 19th Century

Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

National Museum of African Art

Spirits in Stone: the New Face of African Art

Struggles in Steel: Remembering African-Americans Who Worked and Fought in the Mills

Wilson Brown Gallery: Your Internet Resource for African-American Art

Civil Rights Movement

American Civil Rights Institute

Black Panther Party

Civil Rights Code of the United States

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

Little Rock Nine Webquest on Racial Desegregation in Schools

Brother Malcom.net

Civil Rights Link

General Resources

Africabib.org

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

Africa links

Africa Research Central

Africa: South of the Sahara

African-American Bibliography

African-American Theses and Dissertations, 1907-2002(Univ. of CA, Berkeley)

African-American Women: Online Archival Collections

African Wedding Guide

Africana Studies links

Afrigeneas: African-American Genealogy links

Amistad Research Center

Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations

Black Archives of Mid-America

Black History Month Resources

Country Studies (search by individual African countries)

Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina

Story of Africa(BBC)

Website for Children, Parents, and Educators of African Descent

Wonders of the African World(PBS)

History Resources

African-American Experience in Ohio

African-American Freedom Fighters

African-American History(Historical Text Archive)

African-American History in Maryland

African-American Labor History Links

African-American Mosaic(Library of Congress)

African-American Odyssey(Library of Congress)

African-American World(PBS)

African-Americans in the West

African-Americans in West Virginia

Africans in America(PBS series)

Alcan Highway: Black Soldiers in WWII Canada

Black History Hotlist

Black Nurses in History

The Black Presence in Britain

Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Blacks in Alaska History Project

Booker T. Washington Papers

Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History

The Church in the Southern Black Community

Colonial Williamsburg: African-American Experience

Dread History: The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafari

Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History

Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community

History of African-Americans of Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore

The HistoryMakers: African-American History Archive

Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the U.S., 1880-1950

North by South: The African-American Great Migration

The Port Chicago Disaster

Scottsboro: an American Tragedy(PBS)

The Scottsboro Boys

This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys(PBS)

This Is Our War: Blacks in WWII

The Tuskegee Airmen

Tuskegee Tragedy Webquest

Slavery Resources

American Slave Narratives

Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: a Visual Record

Black Resistance: Slavery in the United States

The Dred Scott Case

Encyclopedia of Slavery

Frederick Douglass Papers(Library of Congress)

From Slavery to Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project

Slaves in the Courts 1740-1860

Taking the Train to Freedom: the Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

United States Colored Troops—Civil War