Africa & African-Americans 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
• 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