Society, Ethnicity, African, African-American, History
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- The effect of the anti-imperialist movement on African Americans.
- A project of The Reflector Newspaper, this page overviews the history and influence of black-run newspapers from before the Civil War to the present.
- Honors African-American achievers from South Carolina. Honors a different person each month with a brief biography.
- Articles on historical achievements and educational interactive trivia game relating to black history.
- The Christian Science Monitor tells some of the stories of black people enslaved in New England prior to the American Revolution.
- Collection of articles and historical documents.
- Lectures, video, and audio tapes that link ancient Africa with African American history.
- The New Philadelphia Association researches, preserves and celebrates the history of New Philadelphia, Pike County, Illinois. Tells the story of former slaves who built a racially integrated town before the Civil War.
- A short version of the original book consisting of outlines and notes.
- Database of historical facts about black people and events. Includes film reviews.
- Briefly tells the story of Roberts Settlement in Indiana, founded in the mid 1800's by Elijah Roberts and his family.
- Historic guide about African Americans including their culture, society, education, entertainment, and lifestyle.
- Presents the broad range of the black experience in the United States, from the Harlem Renaissance to the ongoing debate over affirmative action.
- A comprehensive and well-annotated listing of sources about African American History.
- Records the significant contributions of African-Americans in the development of St. Mary's County, Maryland.
- Stories from black history presented every day, with links to books and other resources.
- 1868 autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, who went from slavery to the White House where she served Mary Todd Lincoln.
- The history of African Americans in New Hampshire.
- Honors African American achievement and teaches history. Includes biographical sketches and book and movie reviews.
- PBS provides a biographical sketch of this British actress who married a Georgia slaveholder and became an influential abolitionist.
- Documenting the history of emancipation during the era of the American Civil War, in the words of the participants themselves.
- Dr Juliet E K Walker commemorates Free Frank McWorter who, born a slave in 1777, founded the first black town.
- Through the years the story of the slave block has been kept alive by word of mouth among the inhabitants of the Shenandoah Valley.
- Information and analyses on the struggle for justice of nine teenage boys accused of the gang rape (in 1931) of two white girls in Alabama, and their several legal trials in the 1930s.
- Non-profit organization provides photographic displays and syllabus to educate and promote tolerance and justice.
- Oral histories, photographs, and texts.
- An archived history of black people in the state Maryland.
- Resource for Black History with links, articles, and guestbook.
- Alaska History Project is dedicated to the pursuit of any information or historical photographs documenting the involvement of Blacks in the history of Alaska.
- African American military history, journalism, and Harlem Renassaince.
- Numerous historical references including emigrants to Liberia, slave sales, and manumission records.
- Includes biographical information and audio and video clips about African Americans who have influenced history.
- The life and times of famous African American cowboy Nat Love. Includes key chapters from his "Adventures of Deadwood Dick" autobiography.
- A magazine that celebrates the heritage of African Americans and explores their contributions to our culture.
- Includes articles and book reviews about black history and how the different races and genders fought hard to ensure that the struggle for equality by black Americans did not falter.
- Photographic documentary, art and history project of African American communities in southern New Jersey.
- History of the Creole descendants of "CoinCoin and Thomas Pierre Metoyer." Includes research information, genealogy, photos, events, database, history, and discussion forum.
- Read this summary of research by Dr. Leroy Vaughn about "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, black inventors, and possible Negro ancestry of five US presidents.
- Calendar program honors great African-Americans.
- Directory of black history with over two dozen categories full of resources.
- Traces the history of the choir of former slaves who toured the US and Europe to raise funds to keep Fisk University operating.
- Searchable database contains a comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century newspapers.
- Offers a free, searchable database of events in black history.
- Guide to 20th Century African American individuals, organizations and topics from the Greater Cincinnati area. Find books, articles, photographs and manuscripts.
- A collection of images, documents, stories, biographies and commentaries depicting America's journey through slavery.
- A comprehensive project of The National Park Service to preserve and interpret African American history.
- A brief biographical sketch of several key figures in African American history.
- The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a review of history and culture spanning almost one hundred years. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel
- A time line of African American history (1852-1880) from the Library of Congress.
- Smithsonian Magazine investigation of old grave sites in New England is unearthing hard truths about Yankees and slavery.
- A small museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, is struggling with a big question: what to do with a set of human remains in its collection. Harriet Baskas reports on a real skeleton in the closet, the bones of a slave named Fortune. Hear an excerpt from a po
- A collection of historical pictures from the New York public library.
- An Internet-based curriculum enhancement tool for black history education programs.
- Historic African-American cemetery under restoration in Lynchburg, Virginia. Searchable gravesite database.
- Inventions and profiles from the 1700s to date.
- Charleston, SC guide for black history features history, gullah and geechee culture, points of interest, churches and a calendar of events.
- This lesson planning site article, hosted by Education Worldweb, has 4 tests on African American history for students ranging from the 4th grade to the 9th.
- William Loren Katz shares his research on black Indians through essays, articles, tributes and photographs.
- Book chronicling the work of African American pioneers who broke social and racial barriers on Wall Street.
- Information from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 to the Negro Historical and Industrial Exposition of 1915.
- Exhibit from the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County features photographs reflecting life in the years before 1950.
- Jessica McElrath features many biographical sketches and stories of notable events and time periods. Her collection of photographs from the various periods is extensive.
- Celebrating the Estelusti ~ The Freedmen ~ Oklahoma's Black Indians of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations.
- During the 1850's, a black slave from Missouri claimed his freedom on the basis of seven years of residence in a free state and a free territory. Read the history of one of the most famous and controversial Supreme Court decisions ever taken and its effec
- Monthly Archives of African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion at Mississippi State University.
- Covers the history of US Postal Stamps celebrating black history.
- Presents the history of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County North Carolina's Black community from 1940 to the 1990s through photographs, oral history, audio and video.
- Provides historical plays and programs about the vast intellectual accomplishments of African Americans.
- The Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The Coalition is working to get reparations.
- Provides memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, born in Augusta, Georgia in 1867; letters of Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, house slaves in Abingdon, Virginia; and a letter written by Vilet Lester, a slave in North Carolina from the Special Collections
- Sound, video, historical text and important dates.
- Documentary Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind. Explores the life of the brilliant, yet controversial black leader.
- Tells the story of the remarkable life of Marry Ellen Pleasant who was called the mother of Civil Rights.
- Historical account on Colonel Allen Allensworth and the town named after him.
- The narrative of Bethany Veney.
- Presents a historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution.
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