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Black
History Resources
Selected
Internet Resources:
Museums and Online Exhibits:
- The
African Presence in the Americas: 1492 - 1992: A survey of the
experience of Africans in the New World, divided into the themes of
migration, work, culture and resistance. An exhibition from the New
York Public Library's Schomberg
Center for Research in Black Culture. Includes a timeline, aids
for teachers, maps, and short essays.
- Wrapped
in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African-American Identity: An
unusual and quite beautiful exhibit from the National
Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian, exploring the history
of kente cloth, perhaps the most famous of all African textiles.
Several other exhibits of African art are available at the museum
site.
- African Art Museum:
Subtitled an online reference to the tribal art of Africa, this site
features a collection of images of over 1,000 artifacts from over
100 ethnic groups, from the Ababua to the Zukuma. Although a
commercial site, this online museum offers some beautiful graphics
of African art throughout the centuries.
- Heroes
in the Ships: African-Americans in the Whaling Industry: From
the Kendall Institute at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
- John
Brown's Holy War: Background, timeline, maps and more describing
John Brown, his abortive crusade against slavery, and his influence
on the events leading to the Civil War. From PBS' American
Experience series.
- Our Shared
History: African American Experience: Check out Our Shared
History to find all the exciting and innovative sites related
to African American heritage available across the NPS web site,
ParkNet. They vary widely from far-reaching travel guides to new
information on the Underground Railroad to ways to find African
American ancestors who fought in the Civil War.
General History and Culture:
- African-American
Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of
Black History and Culture. And don't miss the excellent Library of
Congress exhibit, African
American Odyssey.
- African
American History Timeline: A timeline of historic events in
African-American history from 1600 to 2000, from Professor Quintard
Taylor Jr at the University of Washington. Includes an African
Americans in the West timeline, and links to research guides and
websites, vignettes of significant people and places in
African-American history, and a comprehensive bibliography.
- Association for the
Study of African American Life and History (ASALH): Founders of
Black History Month. ASALH has chosen to devote the 2007 National
Black History Theme to exploring the transition from slavery to
freedom in the Americas.
- Patchwork
of African-American Life: Interactive websites created as models
for integrating the Internet into the classroom learning experience.
Includes a hotlist of Black history links, a treasure hunt, a
subject sampler, and WebQuest projects on the Little Rock school
integration case and the Tuskegee syphilis study scandal. From the
Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer.
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Exploring
Amistad: A comprehensive site from Mystic Seaport about the
history of the Amistad, the Amistad incident, and its legacy.
Includes a timeline, teacher's resources, and an extensive library
of primary documents: newspapers, government documents, personal
papers, maps, and more.
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Facts
for Features: Black History Month 2008: Statistics and other
information gleaned from the US Census.
Primary Sources:
- African
American Perspectives: Primary source materials from the Library
of Congress. The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a
panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and
culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth
through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material
published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are
Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
- African
Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles: Interviews with African
Americans who served in the US military, from the Library of
Congress Veterans History Project.
- North American
Slave Narratives: Beginnings to 1920: Documents the individual
and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom
and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. When completed, it will include all the narratives of
fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or
book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of
fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920. From
the Documenting the American South collections at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- The
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record:
Hundreds of images in a searchable database selected from a wide
range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.
From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital
Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library.
- Voices
from the Days of Slavery: Almost seven hours of recorded
interviews with 23 former slaves. Includes transcriptions, essays
and biographies. From the American Memory project at the Library of
Congress.
Biography:
- Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement:
A special online exhibit from the Seattle Times, with a
biography, photo gallery, timeline, study guide, essays, and more.
- Martin
Luther King Jr Newspaper Archive: Search newspaper articles
about Martin Luther King, Jr. in more than 50,000 historical
newspaper pages. A free service from Newspaper Archive.com.
- King
Encyclopedia: From the Martin Luther King Jr Research and
Education Institute at Stanford University.
- The
Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences: Profiles of
African American men and women who have contributed to the
advancement of science and engineering.
- Hall of Black
Achievement: The Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement, from
Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts.
- MAD:
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora: Biographies of black
mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists.
- Negro
Leagues Legacy: From MLB.com, with profiles of the great stars
of black baseball.
- Black
Inventors: Extensive list of African-American patent holders,
with short biographies of several individuals. From About.com.
Genealogy
- African
American Lives: Online companion to the PBS program tracing the
roots of African-Americans, hosted and narrated by Henry Louis Gates
Jr. Includes a genealogy guide and other features.
- Afrigeneas: A
site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African
ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research
and resources in general, including an e-mail discussion list and
message boards.
Study Guides, Directories and Other Resources:
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