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General
Resources
African American Heritage Teaching Resources-Smithsonian
Institution
Includes highlights from the Smithsonian archive, reading lists, artist and
inventor profiles. Also presents lesson plans on African-American art,
history and culture.
African-American
Mosaic- Library of
Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture.
American
Slave Narratives - transcripts of
WPA interviews.
African-American
Odyssey - Library of Congress exhibit.
Africans
in America - teaching aid for PBS Series.
Blackpast.org
- This site is dedicated to providing reference materials to the
general public on six centuries of African American history. It includes
an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in
African America, full text primary documents and major speeches of black
activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present. There are
also links to hundreds of websites that address the history of African
Americans including major black museums and archival research centers in
the United States and Canada
Center for African
American Genealogical Research
Black History Month
(InfoPlease.com) -all purpose resource
featuring contemporary issues, timelines, and almanac
CNN
Black History Month -
timeline, articles, audio and video clips of civil rights movement events,
plus more WWW links.
Origins
of Black History Month
Photographs
- Jackson Davis Collection of over 4,000 photos from
1915-1930 depicting African-American educational scenes in the South and
several African countries.
Universal
Black Pages -"comprehensive listing of
African-diaspora-related Web pages at a central site."
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Databases
African-American
Theses and Dissertations - bibliography of
dissertations and theses on African-American themes from 1907 to the
present.
Black
Facts Online - searchable by date, word, or
category.
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Libraries,
Museums
and Special Collections
Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute
National
Civil Rights Museum
Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
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Photographs
Jackson
Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
From
the Univ. of Virginia Library.
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