African-American History
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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
Black History Month (InfoPlease.com) -all
purpose resource featuring contemporary
issues, timelines, and almanac
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains
more than 2,300 first-person accounts of
slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs
of former slaves. These narratives were
collected in the 1930s as part of the
Federal Writers' Project of the Works
Progress Administration (WPA) Center
for African American Genealogical Research
Oral Histories of the American South-Civil
Rights
Origins of Black History Month
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.
Libraries, Museums and Special
Collections
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture (New York Public Library) Photographs
Jackson Davis Collection of African-American
Educational Photographs From the Univ.
of Virginia Library.
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