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African American Websites

Africa Policy Information Center (APIC)
African-American Studies Programs in the U.S.
African Studies (Central Connecticut State University)
The African Studies Center Online (University of Pennsylvania)
African Studies Library Collections, Indiana University
Africana Studies (formerly Black Studies), University of Pittsburgh
Archives of the African American Music Center, Indiana University
Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University Bloomington
African Studies Center (University of Pennsylvania)
Black Studies at Wooster
James S. Coleman African Studies Center
The Department of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University
Department of Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Center for Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
H-Net: H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line, encourages scholarly discussion, aids in the development of public humanities projects, and in general is involved in the development of the educational potential of the Internet. Online resources include research and teaching aids, calls for papers, conference announcements, bibliographies, exhibition announcements, resources, syllabi and dissertations, archive and manuscript collections, academic programs and internet links. H-Net electronic discussion groups include H-Africa (African History); H-AfrLitCine (Teaching and Study of African Literature and Cinema); H-Afro-Am (African-American Studies); H-AfrTeach (Teaching African History & Studies).
John Hope Franklin Research Center: The center "collects, preserves, and promotes the use of library materials bearing on the history of Africa and people of African descent" through activities including grant support to scholars and researchers; public programming; and work with local teachers and students to promote the use of primary documents.
UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: Founded in 1970, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a national nonprofit institution that conducts independent research on public policy issus of special concern to black Americans.
MOLIS, Minority On-Line Information Center: MOLIS provides current information about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), job and scholarship information, campus news from HBCUs and HSIs.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa
UCLA Summer Institute for Educators
TransAfrica Forum: TransAfrica Forum, an African-American foreign policy institution, was founded in 1981 to provide a forum for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information about Africa and the Caribbean and about the United States' policies affecting these regions.
UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in: African Studies
UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in: African-American Studies
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Washington Office on Africa (WOA): The Washington Office on Africa (WOA) is a not-for-profit church, trade union and civil rights groups supported organization that works with Congress on Africa-related legislation. Documents and information from WOA are included on the APIC website.
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute: Founded in 1975, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research is dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans.
William Monroe Trotter Institute: William Monroe Trotter Institute of the University of Massachusetts Boston was founded in 1984 to address the needs and concerns of the local and nation Black community through research, technical assistance, and public service.

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Historical Texts & Documents

African-American Women On-line Archival Collections (Duke University)
African American Resources for the University of Virginia: Letters, broadsides, pamphlets, slave bills, antislavery circulars and texts from free Blacks, dating from 1795-1864. These documents are from the UV Library Special Collections.
The African-American Mosaic: Selections from a Library of Congress Exhibit: These selections include text and photos from rare and significant Library of Congress holdings on Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA.
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology: This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of the 2300 plus slave narratives, collected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1936-1938. Included are selected photographs, audio bits from the original interviews, an annotated index, related readings and internet sites.
American Memory: Historical Collections from the Library of Congress: Primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history, including: "AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES" (351 rare pamphlets on African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War); "LIFE HISTORIES: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project,1936-1940"; "PORTRAITS BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 1932-1964", and other collections pertinent to Black Studies.
N.B.: Files can be viewed as plain text. Or, for enhanced visual and text, use an SGML viewer.
Christine's Genealogy Website: Early obituaries, census records, ships lists of emigration to Liberia in the 1800s, early newspaper accounts, essays, and links to other African-American and related genealogical resources.
Documenting the African American Experience: Sample African American texts published by Readex including writers such as Benjamin Banneker, Jupiter Hammon, and Phillis Wheatley.
Documenting the American South: Several full text narratives, including book covers and title pages, are included here. N.B.: To view each narrative without special software, click on "HTML" listed with each narrative.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida: Exploring culture, folklife & history of the in Greater Miami, South Florida and the Caribbean
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
National Park Service: Culture Groups: African-Americans: Information on national parks and issues around the exploration of African-American history.
Profiles in Connecticut Black History (Hartford Courant)
Race and Ethnicity Collection: Reference material, essays, and other works addressing issues of race and ethnicity. Available from the English Server, English Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
William Grant Still Collection (Duke University)
The Survey Graphic Harlem Number
Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices (Duke University)
Valley of the Shadow Archives: Slavery & Free Blacks Records, Virginia: This page of public records contains links to: 1860 Augusta County Population Census; 1860 Franklin County Population Census; 1860 Augusta County Agricultural Census; 1860 Franklin County Agricultural Census; Virginia Slaveowner Census; Staunton City Tax Digests (1857 or 1860);Chambersburg City Tax Digests (1860 only); Register of Free Blacks, Augusta County, 1803-1865.

African American Biographical Database - Full text, with illustrations, of more than 40,000 biographies, 1790-1950. Available on an annual subscription.
African American Culture - Information source with more than 25 categories including ethnic shopping, music, technology and history.
African American Culture - African American life and culture, special focus on Black women and girls, issues and problem solving. Non pornographic pictures of women, men, and children.
Afronet - Afronet is an African American portal site that provides current information about the African American and African experience
CCG Online - Bringing technology home to the minority communities.
The Internet Black Pages - Information concerning African American business, organizations, churches, schools, events, music, film, politics, and history.
JavaNoir - Directory of African American resources on the internet. User suggestions are encouraged.
JointFX.com - A guide for Black men in prison and on parole, to get out and stay out.
Kulture Zone - A unique online experience for people of African descent.
Melanet - Website for commerce and information exchange.
Uncensored Black Writers Association - African American website. Straight forward no-holds barred, Black freedom of speech. contains explicit material.
The Universal Black Pages

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Politics & Government

African National Congress: The ANC is the majority party in South Africa's Government of National Unity. It came to power after the first democratic elections in April 1994.
Colorlines: A Series on Race (Hartford Courant)
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: Links to various sources of information on the CBC.
Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/EC): The Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/EC) is a U.S. Presidential initiative designed to create self-sustaining, long-term economic development in areas of pervasive poverty & unemployment, through alliances among private, public, and nonprofit entities.
INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict and Ethnicity in Sudan: INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, is a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. This INCORE guide contains a very useful list of content rich internet resources--news sources, email lists, online essays, megasites, etc., relating to conflict and ethnicity in Sudan.
South African Government Information
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report

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Web Links to the African Diaspora

Black Information Link (BLINK)
Black Power Points: U.S. and Africa related texts and internet resources
BBC Education
The Electronic African Bookworm
INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict and Ethnicity in Sudan: INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, is a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. This INCORE guide contains a very useful list of content rich internet resources--news sources, email lists, online essays, megasites, etc., relating to conflict and ethnicity in Sudan.
SunSITE Southern Africa
The Universal Black Pages
Yahoo! - Africa
Yahoo! - Caribbean

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Discussion Forums

H-Net's e-mail Discussion Lists: Academic exchange of ideas and materials on research, teaching, and scholarship, by subject area.
Black Talk

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News Media

Addis Tribune Home Page
Africa2000
AllAfrica.com: Country-by-country coverage reports incorporating Africa News Online
Africa Online (Africa)
AFRO America: The Website of the AFRO American Company of Baltimore, publishers of the Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, VA editions of the AFRO newspaper.
Afronet.com
Arabic News: English language news on the Middle East and North Africa
BBC World Service
Black Camera, Newsletter of the BFC/A: Table of Contents of the Newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archive, University of Indiana Bloomington
The Black World Today (U.S. and the Diaspora)
Daily Mail & Guardian (eM&G) (South Africa)
Ethiopian News Headlines
Impact International: News and reports on Africa, Asia, Europe and the Islamic world.
Independent Online (South Africa)
The Post (Zambia)

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Radio, TV & Film

Black Americans and Silent Film
Electronic Urban Report
Fespaco 2001: The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
Lee Bailey's RadioScope: Entertainment and personalities magazine
Joy Online (Ghana/Independent)
South African Independent Film Site

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Literature

The Coretta Scott King Award: This award honors African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to children's and young adult literature that promotes understanding and appreciation of culture and contribution of all people to the realization of the American Dream. The award is administered by the American Library Association's Social Responsibility Round Table.
Documenting the African American Experience: Sample African American texts published by Readex including writers such as Benjamin Banneker, Jupiter Hammon, and Phillis Wheatley.
Rita Dove: This site contains the poem "LADY FREEDOM AMONG US" (text & audio) by Rita Dove, published as the University of Virginia Libraries four-millionth volume, a bibliography of Ms. Dove's works and biographical information.
African-American Literature: A Reference Guide: Guide to resources in the UCSB Davidson Library

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Religion

African American Religions: This page provides links to Yoruba, voodoo, Islam, Santeria, Baptist and other pages.
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems

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Arts & Images

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
The Baobab Project: Founded in 1994, the Baobab Project was established to make African visual culture available to a broader audience, as well as to create a research tool which can be used by scholars and students alike.
John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago
Illustrations from Documentary Sources, North Carolina: Early American (1800s-1940s) images of African Americans and manuscripts, held at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina. Please note: These images may be protected by copyright.
Illustrations from Documentary Sources, University of Virginia: Images and manuscripts, largely from the 1800s, held at the University of Virginia.
Without Sanctuary : Lynching Photography in America, James Allen (Editor)

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Music

Duke Ellington's Washington
Electric Guitar
The Louis Armstrong Centennial Radio Project (NPR, National Public Radio)
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
Stanford Jazz Workshop

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Online Magazines & Journals

Africa Update: Archives of Africa Update, the quarterly newsletter of the Central Connecticut State University African Studies Program.
Australian Humanities Review (AHR): AHR is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal published quarterly with regular updates every two weeks.
Essence: Essence, a magazine for contemporary African-American women.
Fespaco Newsletter: The newsletter of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies: Jouvert is a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal published biannually concerning the interrogation of textual, cultural and political postcolonialisms.

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Slavery and the Slavetrade

Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport
Amistad (motion picture): A Selective Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
The Slave Revolt On Board The American Brig Creole: From the Creole Research Center
African Slave Trade Patrol 1820-1861 (Department Of The Navy -- Naval Historical Center)
A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: From the Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Henrietta Marie (Mel Fisher Maritime Museum): A description of the English merchant-slaver's shipwreck in 1700 and its excavation in 1972, thirty-five miles west of Key West, Florida, accompanied by text, illustrations and photographs. Click on "Wrecks and Excavations".
New York's African Burial Ground
On-Line Data Archive: "Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries": Records, data & other documentation of slave ships and the slave trade, including the Virginia, Cuba, Brazil, France, & England. Available from the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"The African Diaspora": An essay by Paul E. Lovejoy, "The African Diaspora": Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity, Culture and Religion under Slavery.
Middle Passage Voyage: Classes are invited to participate in a number of educational activities as they follow the journey of Captain Bill Pickney and his crew sail the Middle Passage from West Africa to the Americas.
Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Steven Mintz (University of Houston)
Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices From the Broadside Collection, Special Collections, Duke University: Through letters, broadsides, receipts, bills of sale, & other documents (in part or in whole or with a citation only), this exhibits gives glimples of "life experiences of American slaves from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century". Several items include images.
Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories: This radio project is based upon text and audio files from the Works Project Administration, and the Archive of Folk Song (Library of Congress). Included are interviews and songs from former slaves and narrated slave narrative transcripts performed by Debbie Allen, Melba Moore, Louis Gossett Jr., Esther Rolle, James Earl Jones, Clifton Davis, and others.
U.S. Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment:Annotations (FindLaw)
An Exhibit: The Emancipation Proclamation: Audio of Charlie Smith, a former slave, speaking about his life during slavery; an essay on the proclamation by historian John Hope Franklin; text and digital images of the original document. From the National Archives and Records Administration's Online Exhibit Hall.
The American Anti-Slavery Group, Inc.: Dedicated to abolishing existing slavery worldwide, AASG monitors, documents, and publicizes slavery around the world, with particular focus on black chattel slavery in North Africa and involuntary servitude in the United States.

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Slavery Scholars & Researchers

Joseph E. Inikori

Stanley Engerman

John Hope Franklin

Winthrop D. Jordan

Leon F. Litwack

see also History 7B: American Society, 1865-1999

Orlando Patterson

Robert Watson - West African Slavery

Academy of American Poets Listening Booth - Audio files of African American poets include:: Arna Bontemps reading The Creation by James Weldon Johnson; Langston Hughes reading The Negro Speaks of Rivers; June Jordan reading The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery - Passed by the Pennsylvania Assembly on March 1, 1780. (Pennsylvania State Archives Documentary Heritage.)

Affirmative Action and Diversity - Created by Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Department of English, University of California Santa Barbara, the site includes primary sources, legal documents and newspaper and journal articles.

African-American & Africana: Catalog of Microform - 104 page catalog (pdf format) of approximately 170 research collections and over 530 serials in the UMI/Proquest. Although you can not access the actual sources, the catalog does serve as a useful point of departure.

African-American Archaeology and African Diaspora Archaeology Resources - Created and maintained by Christopher C. Fennell, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

African American Experience in Ohio: 1850-1920 - Ohio Historical Society. A Library of Congress/Ameritech award winner and also accessible via the Library of Congress American Memory Project web site.

African American History - Transcription from the historical sources compiled and transcribed by Terri Nelson, Princeton Public Library. Has a Name Index and links to African American Genealogy on the Web.

African American Literature Book Club - Has Virtual Poetry Readings by E. Ethelbert Miller, Maya Angelou and Rita Dove. There are Author's Profiles and a list of Favorite 50 African American Authors of the 20th Century with a links to a number of RealAudio interviews with the authors.

African-American Mosaic - "Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture."

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship - "Showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings..."

African American Oral Tradition - RealAudio 60 minute lecture by Herbert Woodward Martin, professor of English language and literature at the University of Dayton, "explores the many threads of African American oral traditions with examples of songs, sermons, and poems." (Wired for Books)

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 - Library of Congress. Provides text of Booker T. Washington's address, known as the Atlanta Compromise, which he delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., September 18, 1895.

African American Presence at Michigan State University - Subtitled "Pioneers, Groundbreakers and Leaders, 1900-1970."

African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920 - 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music from Brown University. (American Memory, Library of Congress.)

African American Studies: Scholarly and Curriculum Related Resources - Columbia University

African American Theses and Dissertations: 1907-1997 - University of California at Berkeley

African American Web Connection - William Richard Jones

African American Writers: Online E-texts - Inez Ramsey

African-American Women - On-line Archival Collections - Scanned images of manuscript pages and full text of the writings of African-American women . (Special Collections Library, Duke University)

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - "Collection of electronic texts has been assembled from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, focusing on the writers who founded the African American women's literary tradition."

African-Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective - Exhibition at B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University.

African Diaspora Biography on the Internet - Joseph Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University. (Part of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library: African Studies.)

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery - Companion to the six-hour public television series, the site "chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865."

Afrigeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy

Afro-American Almanac - African-American history from the Slave Trade to the Civil Rights Movement

Afro-American Genealogical Research - Library of Congress

AFRO-American Newspapers - Offers National and Regional News.

Afro-American Sources in Virginia - Michael Plunkett, University of Virginia Library

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820 - Provides access to Louisiana Slave Database and the Louisiana Free Database

AfroNet - Columns on music, politics, culture

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Amazon.com - Online book, video and music store offers Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860: Computerized Information from Original Manuscript Sources (CD-Rom) edited by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, this database provides names, birthplaces, skills, health and other information for over 100,000 Africans, brought to Louisiana from West Africa between 1699 and 1860.

American Bible Society - Has a Library and Archives with a section entitled Messengers of the Good News: A history of African American achievements spreading God's Word.

American Civil Rights Institute

American Colonization Society Daguerreotypes - Collection related to African American emigration to Liberia, contains thirty daguerreotypes of Liberian government officials and other colonists. (Library of Congress)

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement - This is a valuable resource for schools and universities. Funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by private donors, American Journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day. For example, the text of The Voyage Made by M. John Hawkins Esquire, 1565 is available, and fully searchable, along with historical background, map, and information on how to cite the document. Hawkins was the first English slave trader. He made four voyages to Sierra Leone River between 1564 and 1569, taking a total of 1200 Africans across the Atlantic to sell to the Spanish settlers in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. See also National Maritime Museum

American Philosophical Society - Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the Library houses over 300,000 volumes and bound periodicals, eight million manuscripts, 100,000 images, and thousands of hours of audio tape. See Resources in African American History. Other items of interest include the Isaac Jackson Letterbooks, 1839-1843. "Isaac Jackson managed several estates in northern Jamaica during the years of transition from slavery to free labor."

American Slave Narratives - University of Virginia site has assembled samples from interviews conducted between 1936 and 1938 by the Works Progress Administration. Included is a sound file (in WAV format) of an interview with Fountain Hughes of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Amistad America, Inc. - Not-for-profit educational foundation created by Mystic Seaport. Highlights includes Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America and Amistad Links, a "comprehensive listing of links to pages about the Amistad and the Amistad incident."

Amistad Case - National Archives and Records Administration site "presents documents related to the circuit court and Supreme Court cases involving the Amistad and offers suggestions for teaching activities."

Amistad Research Center - Tulane University, New Orleans

Amsterdam News - New York

Anacostia Museum - "National resource for the identification, documentation, protection, and interpretation of African American history and culture in Washington, D.C., and in those areas of the rural South that have been historically significant to generations of African Americans." With an online exhibition Speak to my Heart: Communities of Faith and Contemporary African American Life.

Anniina's Alice Walker Page - Anniina Jokinen who has also produced a Toni Morrison Page.; Archives of American Art - Smithsonian Institution. You can search and retrieve a number of items relating to African-American artists. Of particular value is the Guide to the Papers of African American Artists: "the collections in the Archives of American Art are the personal papers of more than seventy African American painters, sculptors, and printmakers from the late 19th century to the present. Included are Horace Pippin's illustrated memoir of his military service in France in World War I, Palmer Hayden's sketchbooks of his studies abroad, William H. Johnson's scrapbook of clippings, photographs of Alma Thomas, and the correspondence and writings of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Romare Bearden, and Charles White.
Arrest the Racism: Racial Profiling in America - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Freedom Network

Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History - Founded by Carter G. Woodson.

Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record - Hundreds of images arranged in 18 categories (University of Virginia Library).

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson, 1912. (Eldritch Press).

Bad Blood: the Troubling Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study - Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

Bancroft Prize - Awarded annually by Columbia University to the authors of distinguished works in either or both of the following categories: American History (including biography) and Diplomacy. Columbia University Libraries provides a list of Previous Winners from 1948 to the present.

Been Here So Long: Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives - With lesson plans and other resources provided by the New Deal Network.

Behind the Words - Barnes & Noble site offers author interviews, with archives. African American authors include Debra Dickerson and Stanley Crouch.

Beloved - Hampshire College site is "provided to stimulate and facilitate a national conversation about the novel, the film and the experiences of life that make Beloved such a profound and provocative work."

BET - African American Web gateway, produced by the cable network Black Entertainment Television.

Black Archives of Mid America - Project to digitize the largest depository of artifacts documenting the African American experience in the four-state area of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. The site is browsable and searchable. Currently (1/99) access is provided to the digitized images of 656 photographs, 67 letters, 10 documents, 3 artifacts, 9 articles and 19 publications. (Collaboration between the Black Archives of Mid-America Inc. and Kansas City Public Library, funded by the Missouri State Library.)

Black Collegian Online - Career site for students and professionals of color.

Black Cultural Studies - "Ethnicity, race, and gender among populations of the African diaspora."

Black Enterprise Magazine

The Black Experience in America - By Norman Coombs. Originally published by Twayne Press in 1972 as part of The Immigrant Heritage of America

Black Film Center/Archive - Indiana University. Provides list of Holdings.

Black History Month - Gale Group

Black History Project - Christian Science Monitor Special Feature consists of collection of stories, links, books and interactive games.

Black Issues in Higher Education - With Top 100 Rankings enumerating the colleges and universities that have conferred the highest number of degrees to students of color.

Black Panther Newspaper Collection - "Some of the original writings of the Black Panther Party from its first three years of existence (1966-1969)."

Black Population in the United States - U.S. Census Bureau

Black Press Held by the Library of Congress - Compiled by John Pluge, Jr. January 1991.

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords - PBS site about Stanley Nelson's 1999 documentary includes information on African American Newspapers and their publishers and founders, among which are John Henry Murphy Sr., founder of the Baltimore Afro-American, James H. Anderson, founder of the Amsterdam News, and Charlotta Bass publisher of the California Eagle.

BlackPressUsa - Weekly news digest. Provides links to Local NNPA Newspaper Websites

Black Studies - Subject directory created by Grace-Ellen McCrann, Cohen Library, City College of New York.

Black Voices - AOL's African American online community which brings together job seekers and employers and offers extensive news, entertainment and e-commerce content.

Black World Today - Top news stories from around the world

Book TV - Provides a 2 month RealVideo archive of shows. You can watch the August 13, 2000 program on the Harlem Book Fair held on July 22 in which a panel discusses "Black Literature oday." The panelists include Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Omar Tyree, Sweet Saint Louis; Colin Channer, Waiting In Vain and Lionel Bascom, A Renaissance in Harlem.

Booker T. Washington Papers - "Searchable web tool is designed to provide researchers with access to thousands of pages comprising the 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press." (History Cooperative.)

Booknotes - CSPAN's Booknotes Archives provides access to RealAudio interviews with writers, first chapters from their books and teacher guides. With Archive from January 26, 1997 to the present. Authors include Eugene Robinson (11/7/99), Randall Robinson (3/15/98), Claude Andrew Clegg III (3/30/97), and Anita Hill (11/23/97). Also included are interviews with Linda McMurray (author of To Keep the Waters Troubled: the Life of Ida B. Wells, Michael Cottman (author of The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African-American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past) and Randall Kenan (author of Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century). Transcripts and video files for Brian Lamb's Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America include interviews of authors who have written biographies of Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer, Thurgood Marshall, Elijah Muhammad and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 - Library of Congress collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

Boston College Front Row - Streaming media archive of over 200 cultural and scholarly events at Boston College. Rethinking Black Identity, a lecture by Michael Eric Dyson, Avalon Professor in the Humanities, and professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania was given on January 31, 2005. Internal Re-”sources”: The Just Society in the Black Literary Imagination, a lecture by Catherine John, an associate professor of African diaspora studies in the English department at the University of Oklahoma, was given February 7, 2005. Other topics include Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education, Contending Forces of Freedom: Race, Romance, and Reform in Antebellum Boston, Passing in Boston: the Remarkable Story of the Healy Family and A White-Collar Profession: African-American CPAs since 1921.

Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection - National Portrait Gallery Exhibition, January 31 - September 14, 1997

Brookings Institution - Washington DC institution "serves as a bridge between scholarship and public olicy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decisionmakers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues."

Brown v. Board of Education: 50th Anniversary Bibliography - Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (Last Modified: April 27, 2004)

Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier - International Museum of the Horse

Buxton Historic Site & Museum - Last stop on the Underground Railroad in North Buxton, Ontario, Canada.

By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s - 1960s - Library of Congreess

California Heritage Digital Image Access Project - Online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture consisting of photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. You can Browse the Collection. (Select "container listing" to access the images.) For example, African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1963-1974 has 140 digitized images.

CASBAH - "Research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK.'

Center for the Study of Southern Culture - University of Mississippi. See their projects.

Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry - See their publications and links to resources on poets.

Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection - Temple University, Philadelphia. One of the nation's leading research facilities for the study of the history and culture of people of African descent, the collection is searchable via the Temple University Web Catalog (be sure to select the Blockson Collection from the pull-down menu).

Christine's Genealogy Website - Christine Cheryl Charity has assembled an impressive collection of links to African American genealogical and historical resources.

Civil Rights Code of the U.S. - 42 USC Chapter 21 (Legal Information Institute)

Civil Rights Documentation Project - University of Southern Mississippi Oral History department. There is a Civil Rights Timeline
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive - Database of resources on race relations and the civil rights movement in Mississippi. (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.) The collection includes diaries, letters, transcripts of interviews, photographs and posters. It is a very rich source for primary documents. Try searching for Dahmer fish fry or Freedom Summer. The archive has over 250 photographs by Herbert Randall and there are transcripts of over 140 oral histories including:: Joseph E. Wroten - "Interview conducted on 11-04-1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi."; J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips - "Interview conducted on 06-24-1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950's and the 1960's."; Charles Evers - "Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the honorable Charles Evers : mayor of Fayette, Mississippi."; Fannie Lou Hamer - "Two interviews conducted on 04-14-1972 and 01-25-1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1918-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television appearance in which she described the plight of black voters in Mississippi." [With audio clips]; Betty W. Carter - "Oral history. Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they established two newspapers and purchased the third. "In their first newspaper, The Courier, established in Hammond, Louisiana, the Carters were known for opposing Huey P. Long. Opposing Long led to the downfall of the Carters' first newspaper and their move out of Louisiana. Betty Carter served as the first advertising manager of their second newspaper, The Delta Star. The Carter's eventually bought out the other local paper in Greenville, Mississippi to create the Delta Democrat Times. During the civil rights movement in the South, their paper became a voice of moderation in the South. This policy forced Carter and her husband to live under threats and in a state of tension for years."
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - Database of more than 230,000 names of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) includes histories of units and regiments and links to their most significant battles.

Club Kaycee: Jazz Sights & Sounds - From the sound archives & music collection of the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Common-place - Offers a Special Edition on American Slavery, Vol. 1, No. 4, July 2001.

Community Memories: the African American Experience in Frankfort, Kentucky - Kentucky Historical Society

Continuous Commitment - American Red Cross site pays tribute to the contributions of African Americans in the history of the organization.

Coretta Scott King Award - American Library Association children's book award goes to "authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream." The 2000 Winner is Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, which also won the Newbery Medal for 2000.

Cross Cultural Symposium on Blacks and Native Americans - April 20-22, 2000, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Center at Dartmouth College. To "explore the complex histories and experiences shared by Blacks and Indians." Provides Speaker Biographies and links to related resources.

CyberLC: Webcasts from the Library of Congress - Includes lectures, conferences and interviews. Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values To Live By, Sharon Robinson, November 6, 2001; W. Ralph Eubanks discussed his new memoir, Ever is a long time: A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past, September 17, 2003; David Levering Lewis and Deborah Willis discuss Images of Early African American Life, October 29, 2003; An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek, November 5, 2003; Langston Hughes and His Poetry by David Kresh, May 14, 2003.

Daily Aesthetic: Leisure and Recreation in a Southern City's Segregated Park System -Boyd Landerson Shearer, Jr. explores African-American urban history and experience in Kentucky's largest cities, focusing on the parks and recreational spaces of African-American communities prior to legal integration of public facilities in 1956. With 178 images of Lexington, Kentucky parks.

Deeper Shade of History: Events and Folks in Black History - Charles L. Isbell's searchable database of people and events in Black History includes chronology, speeches, and This Week in Black History.

Detroit Area Library Network - Online catalogs include the Detroit Public Library and the Detroit Institute of Arts Library.

Detroit Free Press - With a special section for Black History Month.

DiversityWeb: A Resource Hub for Higher Education - Provides Institution Profiles

Documenting the American South - Collection from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of full-text primary sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. DAS includes five digitization projects: North American Slave Narratives, First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 and The Church in the Southern Black Community. On July 27, 2001 there were 960 books and manuscripts in the collection. Includes, for example, the full-text of Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England (1855) by Samuel Ringgold Ward. The collection is searchable and has a subject, author and title index. Among the full-texts are A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa by Venture Smith (1729?-1805), kidnapped at the age of six.

Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1970) - Pioneer of African-American librarianship and librarian at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University. (Artnoir)

Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995): Afro-American Librarian and Bibliophile - Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Library, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Douglass: Archives of American Public Address - Northwestern University's electronic archive of American oratory and related documents is searchable and browsable by speaker, title, date or issue. Speeches include Evolution of Negro Leadership by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (16 July 1901), What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass (5 July 1852), Industrial Education for the Negro by Booker T. Washington (September 1903), I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King (28 August 1963) and I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American by Clarence Thomas (15 August 1998).

Dred Scott Case - Washington University Libraries exhibition offers records about the case from the Office of the St. Louis Circuit Clerk.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library - Many events important to the history of civil rights (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, Civil Rights Act of 1957) occurred during his administration (1953–1961). See also 1st Term Bibliography Note on Primary Sources - The Presidential Papers The Eisenhower Memorial Commission There is a list of finding aids and a contents list for the DDE Diary Series (58 pages) and the Amy Whitman Diary Series (18 pages).

Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia Library has texts by and about Afican-Americans in their Modern English Collection. There is a section on Documenting the African American Experience.

Ellington at 100 - New York Times tribute includes essays, song clips, slide shows and rare video footage. (Free registration)

Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - The subject index for African American History has extensive entries. Encyclopedia Smithsonian:African American History and Culture Essence Online Everything Black - Search engine and subject directory Excavating a Black Loyalist Settlement in Nova Scotia - It was, in 1784, "briefly, the largest settlement of free Blacks in North America." (Nova Scotia Museum of Archaeology)
FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room - FBI documents scanned from paper copies as released to FOIPA requesters.: Alphabetical Listing; Famous Persons; Reading Room Index; Black Panther Party; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mississippi Burning; Jackie Robinson; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Elijah Muhammad; W.E.B. DuBois; Malcolm X; Josephine Baker; Stokeley Carmichael; American Negro Labor Congress; Peekskill Riots; Nation of Islam; Roy Wilkins
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences - Mitchell C. Brown, Louisiana State University.

FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name.

Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry - One of the first black units organized in the northern states by Robert Gould Shaw (From the Battle of Olustee Home Page.)

Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War - "Teaching activities, historical documents, and photographs explore the issues of emancipation and military service." (National Archives and Records Administration Digital Classroom which also supplies information on the Amistad Case.)

Florida Folklife Project - From 1937 through 1942 Stetson Kennedy and Zora Neale Hurston traveled through Florida for the Works Progress Administration recording songs, music and personal histories of many ethnic and cultural groups. See also Sound of 1930s Florida Folk Life, an All Things Considered, February 28, 2002, story about the project. (Hurston's book Men and Mules is about the project.)

Florida Humanities Council - Audio archives of five minute programs dating back to July 2000. African-American related segments include Fort Mose (January 2002), Charles Pace as Langston Hughes (December 2001); Ocoee: A Reconciliation (December 2000); Larry Rivers: Slavery in Florida (December 2000); and David Colburn: Profile of a Public Scholar (October 2000). Colburn is known for his part in the investigation into the Rosewood Massacre of 1923.

Fort Des Moines Black Officers Memorial - Des Moines, Iowa

Founders' Constitution - Anthology of writings on American constitutional history edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner. A joint venture of the University of Chicago Press and the Liberty Fund, the book was published in 1986. (It is not clear from the explanatory matter just how much of the print version appears online.) "The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day." The site is searchable, contains a Table of Contents and an Index which includes Short Titles Used, Authors and Documents, Cases and Constitutional Provision. A few examples of pages of interest include Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3, Jack v. Martin (14 Wend. 507 N.Y. 1835) and Sommersett's Case (20 How. St. Tr. 1, 80--82 K.B. 1771).

Frederick Douglass Papersx - With a good collection of links to related sites. (Rachael L. Drenovsky, Indiana University.)

Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress

Free Speech Internet Television - Streaming media (sound & video) archives include Piri Thomas reading Langston Hughes' Freedom's Plow, an interview with journalist Farai Chideya about her book Don't Believe the Hype and an interview with Danzy Senna about her semi-autobiographical novel "Caucasia," which deals with the confusions and contradictions of growing up half black & half white-while passing as white-in 1970s Boston. (Requires RealPlayer, sound card and speakers or headphone.)

Freedom's Journal - State Historical Society of Wisconsin has made available the full text of the first African-American owned and operated newspaper. "All 103 issues of the Freedom's Journal have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format. We have placed the first 20 issues on the website and will add the rest over the next few months."

Freedmen and Southern Society Project - With sample documents from the volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation.

Fresh Air - National Public Radio show hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY of Philadelphia has RealAudio Archives and is searchable. There are interviews with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1/10/00), Aretha Franklin (1/17/00), Christopher Curtis (/26/00), Michael Eric Dyson (2/17/00) and Sonny Rollins (2/25/00).

From Revolution to Reconstruction - Juxtaposes an outline of American history with the text of the original documents. Maintained by George M. Welling & Garry Wiersema, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. There are full-text documents by Benjamin Drew, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Henry Carey and court documents on the the Dred Scott case.

From Slavery to Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 - Library of Congress collection contains 397 pamphlets by African Americans and others "relating to African-American history, including slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Authors include Lydia Maria Child, Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington."

FRONTalView - Published by the W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center Press for the National Black United Front.

Frontline: Jefferson's Blood

Gallica - Text and image digitization project undertaken by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France consisting primarily of nineteenth century French texts, (although there are a number of texts in English and other languages). One of the full-text titles in the collection, for example, is Three years in Europe, or Places I have seen and people I have met by William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave (London, 1852). Another is The history of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the African, slave trade by Thomas Clark (London 1808). Click on Recherche and do a subject (sujet) search for any of the following words or phrases: Traite des esclaves, Esclavage, Mouvements antiesclavagistes, nègres, affranchissement, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti etc.

Gateway to African American History - A project of the North Kenwood/Oakland Charter School, the subject guide is annotated and intended to be used by grades 4-12

Gateway to African American History - U.S. Department of State.

Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum - 19th century philanthropist, social reformer and leader of anti-slavery activities whose papers are preserved in the Syracuse Department of Special Collections. There is also Gerrit Smith Broadside and Pamplet Collection (1793-1875), with an index.

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition - Yale University Center has a Document Archive which "currently numbers some 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles. The documents are organized by author, date, subject, and document type." There is also a section of Bibliographies including Book Reviews Concerning Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition which have appeared in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Givens Collection of African American Literature - University of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities. Has a African American Literature Digital Images Database

A Great Day in Harlem - Based on Jean Bach's 1994 documentary about Art Kane's photographs of 57 jazz musicians taken in Harlem in August of 1958

Guide to African American Documentary Resources in North Carolina - Edited by Timothy D. Pyatt.

Handbook of Texas Online - Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, the site is searchable and browsable There is a section listing African American History - Biographical Entries and another listing African American History Topical Entries. There are entries on Juneteenth, Slave Insurrections, African American Churches and a host of other subjects.

Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro - "A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number"; Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and Catherine Tousignant, University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program - Among the digitzed texts are:: Harriet, the Moses of her people - by Sarah H. Bradford; Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford.; The Philadelphia Negro : a social study by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois ; together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton.
Harvard Law School Forum - With RealAudio sound files of Past Programs dating back to 1954 featuring an impressive array of speakers including Martin Luther King, Jr., Stevie Wonder, Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson.

Historic American Sheet Music - Comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music at Duke University has a section of Spirituals and is searchable.
History Cooperative - Project of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press and the National Academy Press. Also at the site are the Booker T. Washington Papers, a searchable web tool "designed to provide researchers with access to thousands of pages comprising the 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press." Searchable full-text journals include:: American Historical Review - from December, 1999; Journal of American History - from June 1999; Law and History Review - from Spring 1999; William and Mary Quarterly - from January 2001
History Matters - "Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history." Many Pasts "contains primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of "ordinary" Americans throughout U.S. history." WWW.History is an annotated guide to the most useful Web sites for teaching U.S. history and social studies.

A History of the Amistad Captives - Electronic edition of the book by John Warner Barber, first published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1840. (Mystic Seaport).

Hayti District - African-American section of Durham, North Carolina, flourished from the 1880s to the 1940s. Includes images and audio files.

Holdings Project - Acronym for Holding Our Library Documents Insures Nobility, Greatness and Strength, the project will digitize items from Fisk's 7 million-piece collection of documents and artifacts.

Holsinger Studio Collection - Photographs taken by Rufus W. Holsinger record life in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, from before the turn of the century through World War I. Approximately two-thirds of the collection are studio portraits, and among these are nearly 500 portraits of African-American citizens of Charlottesville and the surrounding area. (Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.)

Homecoming: Sometimes I Am Haunted by the Memories of Red Dirt and Clay - PBS chronicle of Black farmers from the Civil War to the present. Wisdom and Experience features RealVideo reflections on land and loss from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, the filmmaker, family members, an activist, a former slave, a scholar and a black farmer. Stories and Remembrances features RealVideo interviews with individuals about family, struggle, land and loss.

Horton Society - George Moses Horton was a poet enslaved in the Chatham County and Chapel Hill areas of North Carolina from his birth in the late eighteenth century until well after Emancipation. Additional full-text material on Horton can be found at the Manuscripts Department site at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

HotWired Interviews - Includes a June 1996 RealAudio interview with Spike Lee conducted at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

How Race is Lived in America - Special Section, New York Times Special Section (July, 2000).

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century - "Artists, engravers and photographers managed to capture and preserve for posterity a variety of images of African Americans throughout the 19th century." (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.)

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Internet Poetry Archive - Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina Arts Council., the site includes the written and spoken (RealAudio) works of Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.

Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History - Part of the larger American and British History Resources on the Internet maintained by William Vincenti: Reference Librarian at Bergen Community College.

Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs - University of Virginia Library project to to "digitize, identify, arrange, describe and conserve the ca. 4,500 photographs of African-American educational scenes in the southern United States taken by Jackson Davis during the period 1915-1930 when he was affiliated with the General Education Board in New York, New York."

Jacob Lawrence Digital Archive and Education Center - University of Washington project has a Catalogue Raisonné
John Brown: Harpers Ferry National Historic Park - Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.; John Brown Farm and Gravesite - North Elba, New York, just outside of Lake Placid; Adair Cabin State Historic Site and John Brown Museum in Osawatomie, Kansas.; New York State Preservationist - Has an article about the Gerrit Smith Estate in Peterboro, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark ((Volume 5, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2001). In 1848 John Brown traveled to Peterboro, New York to meet Gerrit Smith. Smith had offered Adirondack land grants to poor black men.; John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (2005) - By David S. Reynolds. "He [Reynolds] sees Brown as a visionary prophet of American equality, whose sins and crimes, though real, have to be situated in the bloody context of the run-up to the Civil War." Reviewed (Adam Gopnik, New YorkerApril 25th, 2005); "It takes courage, if not a touch of Brownian madness, to argue, as David S. Reynolds does in his absorbing new biography... that Brown was not the Unabomber of his time, but a reasonable man, well connected to his era's intellectual currents and a salutary force for change." (Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review, April 17, 2005); "Does "John Brown, Abolitionist" add much to the major Brown biographies by Villard, Stephen B. Oates (1970) and Richard C. Boyer (1972)? Not really. The book is flabby with repetitions, frustrating loose ends and even entire passages that appear to have been recycled by mistake." (Lauren Weiner, Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2005).; The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002) - By John Stauffer; John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War (2004) - By Franny Nudelman; Cloudsplitter: A Novel (1999) - By Russell Banks.
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library - Cornell University library provides a special collection focusing on the history and culture of people of African ancestry. Has links to full-text Digital Historical Texts, Selected Full-Text Digital Periodicals and African American and/or Black Studies Online Catalogs.

John Hope Franklin Research Center - "Building on the library's strong holdings in the areas of slavery, the slave trade, the abolition movement, race relations, and civil rights, the Franklin Center seeks especially to identify and preserve materials generated by (rather than simply about) people of African descent." (Duke University's Special Collections Library). There is a useful Guide to the Collection.

Journey Through Art with W. H. Johnson - Online exhibition from the National Museum of American Art. William H. Johnson (1901-1970), one of America's most important African American painters, is now being recognized as a major figure in twentieth-century American art."

Juneteenth - On June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that all slaves were now free.

Kentucky's Black Heritage - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives e-Books.

Law of Slavery in New Jersey - Part of the New Jersey Digital Legal Library created by Rutgers University School of Law, "this collection includes texts, or links to texts at other sites, for all the published New Jersey statutes and court decisions about slavery. An annotated bibliography of statutes, cases, and secondary sources is provided, with links to the statute and case texts." Provides the text of An act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, passed by the New Jersey Legislature on February 15, 1804.

Libraries & Culture - With selected full-text archive. Articles of interest (in pdf format) include Autonomy and Accommodation: Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907-1922 by Cheryl Knott Malone, Volume 34, No. 2 (Spring 1999), Toward a Multicultural American Public Library History by Cheryl Knott Malone, Volume 35, No. 1 (Winter 2000) and Integration and the Alabama Library Association: Not So Black and White by Kayla Barrett and Barbara A. Bishop, Volume 33, No. 2 (Spring 1998).

Library Company of Philadelphia - Founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the library "has one of the most comprehensive and sought-after collections relating to African American history spanning from the 16th century to the early years of the 20th century." The library's web catalog, WolfPAC, includes records for their Afro-Americana collection.

Library of Congress Online Catalog
Library of Congress Webcasts: Robert Schneller: Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality - 10 August 2005; W. Ralph Eubanks: Ever is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past - 17 September 2003; Kenneth Janken: White: The Biography of Walter White; Sharon Robinson: Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values To Live By; Patricia Sullivan: Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years - 30 March 2006; Judge Robert L. Carter: A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights - 25 May 2005; John Lewis - 9 October 2004; Dorothy Height - 9 October 2004; Nick Kotz: Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws That Changed America - 1 March 2005; Images of Early African American Life - David Levering Lewis, Deborah Willis, 29 October 2003; Marilyn Kern-Foxworth: Blacks in Advertising Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - 25 May 2004; John Hope Franklin: Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin - 1 November 2005; Henry Louis Gates Jr. - 12 October 2002; Robert L. Carter - 24 September 2005; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 9 October 2004. Discusses "Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII?s Forgotten Heroes"; Larry Tye: Rising from the Rails - 2 August 2004. "Author and journalist Larry Tye discusses his new book, which explores the 100 year history of the black men who worked on George Pullman's railroad sleeping cars."; Literature to Life: Zora! - 29 January 2004; Henry Wiencek: An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America - 5 November 2003; David Kresh: Langston Hughes and His Poetry- 12 September 2003; Interview with E. Ethelbert Miller - 12 August 2002; J. California Cooper - 8 September 2001
Lift Every Voice and Sing - Special program to condemn the racially motivated burning of African American churches in the United States, was held July 1 1996, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Includes RealAudio sound files of many of the speakers.

Lillian Smith Book Awards - "To recognize and encourage outstanding writing about the American South."

Louisiana Native Guards - James G. Hollandsworth provides information about the celebrated Louisiana Native Guards, the "first black soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War."
Making of America - This digital library of nineteenth century books and journal volumes is "particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology" and is a good place to look for primary sources. This digitization project was undertaken at both the University of Michigan and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Search both collections; the Michigan collection consists of imprints between 1850 and 1877 and "currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection, which covers the period of 1840 - 1900 "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. Relevant full-texts include:: American slave code in theory and practice: its distinctive features shown by its statutes, judicial decisions, and illustrative facts by William Goodell, American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853; Boston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns. Containing the report of the Faneuil hall meeting; the murder of Batchelder; Theodore Parker's lesson for the day; speeches of counsel on both sides, corrected by themselves; a verbatim report of Judge Loring's decision; and detailed account of the embarkation (1854); Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme court. The full opinions of Chief Justice Taney and Justice Curtis, and abstracts of the opinions of the other judges; with an analysis of the points ruled, and some concluding observations (1860); Extracts from letters of teachers & superintendents of the New-England educational commission for freedmen, New England freedmen's aid society, 1864; Fort Pillow massacre (1864); Inside view of slavery; or, A tour among the planters (1855) by C. G. Parsons, M.D., with an introductory note by Mrs. H. B. Stowe;; Negro in the American rebellion; his heroism and his fidelity (1867) by William Wells Brown; Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad(1876) by Levi Coffin; Report [of] the Select committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into the late invasion and seizure of the public property at Harper's Ferry, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, 1860; Some recollections of our antislavery conflict (1869) by Samuel J. May; Speeches and letters of Gerrit [sic] Smith ... on the rebellion (1865); Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York (1863)
Malcolm X Project - Columbia University

Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and Legacy of Struggle - Audio archive of the November 1990 conference held at Manhattan Community College, New York.

Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project - James S. Coleman African Studies Center at University of California, Los Angeles

Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs, 1898-1992 - Searchable database of 4,000 photographs at the University of Pennsylvania Library Center for Electronic Text & Image.

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - Curated by Nancy M. Shawcross, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. With Video and Audio Excerpts from Interviews and Performances.

Martin Luther King , Jr. Papers Project - Stanford University

Maryland State Archives - You can search their Underground Railroad Database in Beneath the Underground: The Flight to Freedom and Communities in Antebellum Maryland. See also http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc5600/sc5604/html/losim.html

Melanet - "Platform for intellectual, economic and spiritual expression of peoples throughout the African Diaspora."

Miller Center of Public Affairs Presidential Oral History Program - University of Virginia. An excellent resource for locating primary source documents describing the civil rights era. The Lyndon Johnson collection, for examples, consists of 787 items, among which is a 30 page transcipt of an interview with Hodding Carter, Jr. conducted on November 8, 1968 by T. H. Baker in which Carter "discusses his relationship with the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson , and his role in the civil rights situation in Mississippi". Other interviews of interest include those with Ivan Allen, Jr., Charles Diggs, Clifford Durr, Virginia Foster Durr, Charles Evers, James Farmer, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., Luther Holcomb, Barbara Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, Mrs. Ruby G. Martin, James M. Nabrit, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Hobart Taylor, Sr., Walter Washington, George L-P Weaver, Andrew Young, and Whitney Young, Jr., (1921- , ("Discusses his relationship with President Johnson and his role as Executive Director of the Urban League.") Citations are provided for all transcripts: for example: Transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., Oral History Interview I, 6/18/69, by Thomas Harrison Baker, Electronic Copy, LBJ Library. WhiteHouseTapes.org, also offered by the Miller Center, is described as the "The secret White House tapes and recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower and has a Mississippi Burning, 1964 Virtual Exhibit. See also the Oral History Collection at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

Minority Business Development Agency - "Federal agency specifically created to encourage the growth of minority- owned businesses", it provides contact information for Local Centers.

Minority On Line Information System (MOLIS)

Mississippi Digital Library - Cooperative project to provide a database of electronic finding aids to "primary sources associated with the civil rights era."

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center - Thomas C. Battle's history of this Howard University center is reprinted from Library Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 143-163, c1988.

Mostly Menfolk and a Woman or Two - Virtual exhibit of 18th and 19th century African-American literature. (Charlotte Hawkins Brown, George Moses Horton, Charles Chestnutt, David Walker, Anna Julia Cooper and Amar ibn Said.)

Motown Record Company

Multicultural Pavilion - Has a section on African American Literature. (Paul Gorski, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia.)

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) - San Francisco. Multimedia online exhibitions inlcude Slave Narratives, I've Known Rivers, Maafa: Remember and Etched In The Eyes: The Spirit of a People called Gullah.

Museum of Afro-American History - With information on various buildings and sites in and around Boston.

My Bondage and My Freedom. - Full-text of the 1857 book by Frederick Douglass from the Making of America Project

NAACP Online

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Full-text from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

Nathaniel C. Standifer Video Archive of Oral History: Black American Musicians - Transcripts of 60 of the interviews are available online.

Nation Of Islam Online

National Archives of Canada - Ottawa. Among the Digital Collections is the Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada. See also Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830-1870: A Selective Bibliography created by the National Library of Canada.

National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)

National Civil Rights Museum - Memphis, Tennessee

National Geographic - Has a section on the Underground Railroad.

National Museum of African Art - Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the "museum's primary focus is collecting and exhibiting the traditional arts of Africa south of the Sahara."

National Newspaper Publishers Association - Trade association, also known as the Black Press of America, was founded in 1940 to bring together publishers of African-American-owned newspapers, is a federation of more than 200 Black community newspapers from across the United States. Provides a list of all sites affiliated with the BlackPressUSA Network. Provides a list of member papers.

National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution site provides a Collection and Research Records Search and an Expanded Person Search. Exhibitions include Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection, the Amistad Case and Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen.

National Register of Historic Places - "Nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation...properties listed on the Register include districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that are significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture." You can search by name, location, agency and theme. A theme search for Underground Railroad Travel Itinerary retrieves 43 results and Civil Rights Travel Itinerary retrieves 42 results.

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). A search for slavery retrieves over 1500 records.

National Urban League - Offers a Audio & Video Archives and a Virtual Library which has archives of the To Be Equal columns. The Speeches Archive contains speech transcripts and includes a webcast of the talk given at the National Press Club by Hugh B. Price, President of the National Urban League, December 10, 1999.

NationsBank African-American Musical Heritage Collection - Collection of nearly 10,000 pieces of sheet music documenting the contributions of African-Americans to the nation's musical heritage at the University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library. Provides composer (names of individual who contributed), title, publisher & date. Browsable by title or names of individual who contributed.

Negro in the American Rebellion - Full-text of the the 1867 book by William Wells Brown from the Making of America Project.

Negro Periodicals in the United States - Annotated bibliography by Melvin R. Sylvester, B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

NetNoir Online: the Black Network - Includes a section for Black History Month.

New York Times: Books - Provides access to the most recent New York Times Book Review, its back issues, reviews from the daily paper and a searchable archive of over 50,000 book reviews back to 1980. You can read First Chapters from selected books, browsable by author, in Fiction and Nonfiction. (Registration is required to access the site, but it's free.)

Newspapers in Virginia Database - A subject search for African Americans locates 10 pages of results with publishing information about African American newspapers throughout the country, not just in Virginia. (For example there are 25 records for New York.) Newspapers in Virginia, a Bibliography of American Newspapers Examined by the Virginia Newspaper Project is an alphabetical list grouped by state, county, and city.

North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History

Online Kwanzaa Resource Guide - Meaning, statements, debates, pictures, music, events.

One Nation News - African American and African focused newspaper in Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota

Online Archive of California - Part of the California Digital Library. There is a search page. (Much of the material is available to California residents only.)

Online Books Page - John Mark Ockerbloom's index or directory to full-texts on the Web includes links to more than 20,000 English works in various formats. It allows you to search or browse by author, title, subject and serial. There's a page of new listings. Authors include Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Online Resources: History of Slavery - Library Journal Digital's September WebWatch.

OurDocuments.gov - Among the Milestone Documents are Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863), 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) and the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870).

Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture - National Park Service site is a rich resource for African American history. It provides information on African-American historic sites, the Underground Railroad, the Golden Crescent, the Georgia Florida Coast, Historic Baltimore, Boston and Detroit.

Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: The Black Panther Party - Chronology of the Black Panther Party is accompanied by transcripts as well as video and sound clips from KPFA Radio's and the Pacifica Radio Archives. You can hear Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver and many others activists.

Papers of African American Artists - Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Archives - Provides access to over two hundred poems including four audio versions. With Poetry Title Index. (Wright State University).

Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration - Columbia College, Chicago. For additional Internet resources on Robeson see Howard University's Paul Robeson Centennial: Selected Web Sites.

Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz - Photographs from the William P. Gottlieb Collection at the Library of Congress, "comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C." Searchable and organized by Name, Subject or Venue.

Pop And Politics - Author and ABC reporter Farai Chideya's ideas and opinions on modern pop culture and politics.

Port Chicago Disaster: A Resource for Teachers and Students - 1944 explosion killed 320 men, including 202 African American enlisted men. Doug Prouty, Educational Technology Specialist, Contra Costa County Office of Education.

The Preacher's Cadence - John Schaefer talks with poet and musician Carl Hancock Rux about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his gospel cadence. Soundcheck, WCNY, Monday, January 17, 2005. [Audiofile]

Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration - With selected full-text articles. The Summer 1997 Special Issue: Federal Records and African American History has 16 articles on the use of federal records in African American historical research.

Psychedelic 60s: the Civil Rights Movement - Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.

Quarterly Black Review of Books

Project Gutenberg Home Page - Michael Hart's huge undertaking to digitize public domain texts provides access by author and by title. Authors of interest include Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884, Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895,Du Bois, W. E. B. [William Edward Burghardt], 1868-1963 and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Also available is Norman Coombs' Black Experience in America, originally published by Twayne, c 1972.

RaceSci History of Race in Science - Sponsored by the History Department, University of Toronto and described as a "resource for scholars and students interested in the history of "race" in science, medicine, and technology."

Radicalism Collection - Project of the Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections which provides access by subject or by title to full-text documents, including material on the Black Panthers and the Scottsboro Boys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson McGill Papers - As editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, McGill played a major role in the fight for civil rights in the South. With Table of Contents. Over 2,000 of his columns from 1950 to 1969 have been digitized (in Series IV Writings 1913-1969, Subseries 5. Book reviews and miscellaneous writings, Box 44, Folder 3-4) and are viewable online in pdf format. The collection is searchable. For example, a 1 January 1966 column, Maturity in Civil Rights (no. 02520100090200070330000) discusses the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). In Assists to 'Black Power' (no. 02520100090200072066000), 17 July 1967, McGill comments on a recent NEA report finding Alabama schools for Blacks "miserably inferior." (Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory (SAGE).)

Remembering Harold - Over 100 photographs of former Mayor of Chicago Harold Washington (1983 - 1987) from Chicago Public Library Digital Collections.

Recent Acquisitions in African-American History & Literature - University of Virginia Library Exhibition, February 1996.

Renascence Editions - Has the full-text of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham's listing of over 3700 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary ources for the research scholar.

Richmond's Other Heroes: Finding African-American history in the cradle of the Confederacy - American Heritage, September 1998.

Road From Frederick to Thurgood: Black Baltimore in Transition, 1870 - 1920 - Maryland State Archives. Provides a list of Related Sites and Resources.

Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project - Interviews "conducted by Kentucky native, author, and first poet laureate of the United States, Robert Penn Warren in 1964 as research for his book Who Speaks for the Negro? (New York, Random House, 1965)." There are transcripts of interviews with Malcolm X (June 2, 1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (March 18, 1964), Richard Gunn (May 7, 1964) and Rev. Milton Galamison (June 17, 1964). AKentucky Digital Library project.

Rosewood Reborn - One hour RealAudio radio documentary, narrated by James Earl Jones and produced by RealityWorks, recounts the Rosewood massacre of 1923, and the $2-million dollar survivor settlement of 1994.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft - Project Gutenberg Etext

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection - 10,000 digitized "pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, newsletters of local and regional anti-slavery societies, sermons, essays, and arguments for and against slavery" donated to Cornell University in 1870 by the American abolitionist Reverend Samuel J. May. A phrase search for Gerrit Smith, for example, retrieves many items.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - A division of the New York Public Library, the site includes a Gallery of Images and Sounds, Selected Internet Sources of Information on Africa and the African Diaspora, and African American Women Writers of the 19th Century a "collection of electronic texts...focusing on the writers who founded the African American women's literary tradition." Finding Aids provides descriptive summaries of the collections in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division and includes 300-500 word biographies of over 90 African Americans. You can also search the New York Public Library's catalog, CATNYP. The Schomburg Center Video Oral History Gallery has Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project with comments by Nat Adderley, Doc Cheatham, Jon Faddis and 18 others. (Requires Quicktime plug-in.)

Scottsboro Boys - AFRO-American Newspapers.

Secession Era Editorials Project - Furman University Department of History project has collected newspaper editorials on four major secession-related events: Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854), Dred Scott Case (1857), John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (Oct.-Dec. 1859), and the Caning of Sumner (May 1856), the attack on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner by South Carolina representative Preston Brooks.

Seneca Village - African American village razed in 1850's to make way for Central Park. A joint project of the New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University.

Slavery and the Ratification of the Constitution - Model Editions Partnership. Primary source documents

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 - More than 100 pamphlets and books published between 1772 and 1889 on the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. "Highlights of the collection include the cases of Somerset v. Stewart, 1772, which laid the groundwork for the abolition of slavery in England, and Dred Scott, 1857, which helped precipitate the Civil War, as well as the memoirs of Daniel Drayton, who helped slaves escape to freedom. Other materials document the work of John Quincy Adams and William Lloyd Garrison to abolish slavery and the trial of John Brown. The collection contains courtroom transcripts, important speeches from trials, lawyers' trial arguments, and Supreme Court decisions. A special presentation shows a manuscript slave code of 1860 from the District of Columbia." (Danna C. Bell-Russel) Also included in the collection is information on The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D., charged with publishing seditious libels, by circulating the publications of the American Anti-Slavery Society, before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, held at Washington, in April, 1836, occupying the court the period of ten days.

Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey - Photographs and text by Wendel A. White.

SNCC 1960-1966: Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Hear John Lewis, Julian Bond, Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer & John Winters in RealAudio.

The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois (from the Bartleby Library.)

Southern Changes Online - The Beck Center for Electronic Collections at Emory University and the Southern Regional Council have launched this on-line, searchable database of the Council's quarterly journal. "This digital archive contains full-length original articles, reviews, interviews, essays, and reports that explore the variety of social conditions and cultural issues affecting the South."

SpectraLinks Internet Guide to African Americans - Archives of F. Leon Wilson's mailing list announcing and describing new African-American related web sites.

Stamp on Black History Index - Black men and women who have been honored on U.S. postage stamps. With alphabetical list.

Still Going On: An Exhibit Celebrating the Life and Times of William Grant Still - Still was the first African American composer to have a symphony performed by an American orchestra; Duke University Special Collections Library.

Sylvia Davis v. United States - United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, September 21, 1999. Sylvia Davis, a Seminole Indian (who is also African-American) of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was denied government assistance funds by the tribe on the grounds that she did not possess a Certificates of Degree of Indian Blood for her son.
Tavis Smiley Show - National Public Radio African-American-oriented news program. See also Tavis Smiley and < ahref="http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/">Archive. Includes interview with: Cornel West - January 7, 2002; Michael Eric Dyson - March 14, 2002; Halle Berry - March 07, 2002; Diane McWhorter - November 29, 2004; Kwame Anthony Appiah - March 1, 2006
Technology Versus African-Americans - Anthony Walton, Notes & Comment, Atlantic Monthly, January 1999.

Thomas Jefferson Papers - Has a A Bibliography of Sources in Special Collections Related to Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings and the Hemings Family of Monticello with digitized images.(Special Collections Department, University of Virginia.)

Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection - Searchable archive of 300 nineteenth and early twentieth century images of African Americans. There are 44 photographs depicting various aspects of the tobacco industry in Virgina. (Joint effort between Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and the Valentine Museum/Richmond History Center.)

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund - With links to Member Schools.

Time-Life Photo Sight - With portraits of Influential African Americans of the 20th Century.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - Western Michigan University's Department of Political Science

To Be More Than Equal: the Many Lives of Martin R. Delany, 1812-1885 - Written and assembled by Jim Surkamp with support from the West Virginia Humanities Council and the George Washington Carver Institute. With Index of People.

Trailtones: The African-American Heritage of Arizona - Gloria L. Smith's work, in pdf format, is part of the University of Arizona Library's Southwest Electronic Text Center which also includes James Walter Yancy's The Negro of Tucson, Past and Present.

Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project - Unesco. Slave Voyages: The Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Americans is a 272 page document (in pdf format) by Hilary McDonald Beckles of the University of the West Indies.

Transatlantic Slavery: Selected Bibliography - Compiled by Shauna Collier, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History & Culture.

Tuskegee Airmen - National Historic site in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive - University of Virginia

Underground Railroad Years: Canada in an International Arena - An exhibition from Canada's Digital Collections. With index.

Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson - PBS documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns

United Negro College Fund

Universal Black Pages - Comprehensive listing of African-diaspora-related Web pages.

University of South Alabama Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center (SCC) - With links to other resources.

U.S. Census Bureau - Has links to the latest trend data for Minorities including African Americans.

U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights - Has a list of U.S. Accredited Postsecondary Minority Institutions

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - The searchable database, ARC (Archival Research Catalog, "is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries." Black History provides links "to African-American culture, biographies and genealogical information, and other images of Blacks in American history." A section for teachers, Digital Classroom, includes Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate, The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War and The Amistad Case. (See also OurDocuments.gov).

U.S. Senate Oral History Program: Jesse R. Nichols - Complete text of oral history interviews conducted in 1994 with the first African American hired as a clerical staff member of the Senate. Jesse Nichols served as government documents clerk and librarian for the Senate Finance Committee from 1937 to 1971. (Senate Oral History Program.)

Videotapes on African Americans - Prepared by Malia Watson and Linda Engelberg of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The videos are briefly annotated. (See also the Library at the University of California, Berkeley's African-American Studies: Videotape and Audiocassete.)

Virginia Hamilton - Official site of prize-winning author of children's books.

Voice of the Shuttle - Afro-American Literature - Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color - University of Minnesota site provides links to African-American writers

Voices From the Smithsonian Associates - "Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors." African-American-related programs include Vernon Jordan: The Life and Times of Vernon Jordan recorded November 19, 2001; Walter Mosley: Black Male Heroes recorded December 5, 1994; Derrick Bell: The Art and Dynamics of Protest recorded March 29, 1995; and Johnnetta B. Cole: Family is More than Biology recorded December 8, 1999.

Voices of Civil Rights - Joint project of the AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress "to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all."

Web of Life: the Art of John Biggers - "Concentrates on the life and work of the African American artist and art educator John Biggers. It features information about Biggers, teaching materials, activities for students, a conversation with the artist, examples of his work, a list of resources, and an opportunity to talk to the artist and project coordinator via e-mail." (ArtsEdNet, a division of the Getty Education Institute for the Arts.)

W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research - Harvard University research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans

Will The Circle Be Unbroken? - Audio history of the civil rights movement in five Southern communities produced by the Southern Regional Council.

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity - Smithsonian Institution.

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,109 unedited, 778 fully edited and encoded) by 1,394 authors. You can search the full-text. Wright "listed a total of 2,923 titles in adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose" (from the introduction), and inventoried 18 American libraries for holdings. This compilation is part of his three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is still considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries." There are a number of anti-slavery (and pro-slavery) titles including The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife "Vina," after forty years of slavery... (1856) by Kate E. R.Pickard; Rev. J.W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman: a narrative of real life (1859), a partly fictitous biograpy of Jermain Wesley Loguen; Autographs for Freedom (1853) by William G. Allen; John and Mary, or, The Fugitive Slaves: a tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (1873), Slavery in the United States. A narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man, who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia as a Slave (1854); and Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine. A Tale of the Southern States (1867) by William Wells Brown. The following Wright numbers (search by idno) may also be relevant: 0402, 0411, 0493, 0792, 1100, 1333, 1624, 1893, 1904, 1917, 2120, 2153, 2161, 2162, 2349, 2468, and 2685.

· Timbuktu Manuscripts

· Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project

· Africa South of the Sahara

· UPenn African Studies Center