ACLU Charges Racial Discrimination in Second Texas Drug Bust Scandal
African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography, and History complete copies of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech, My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, dictated by Sojourner Truth and edited by Olive Gilbert, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, and Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
African American Organizations a list of links
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
African American Web Connection covers art, poetry, black authors, businesses, churches, entertainment, history, kids, organizations, prominent people, publications, resources in Africa, topics of concern and web resources
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century a digital library
African American Album a pictorial history of African Americans in Charlotte from slavery to the mid-twentieth century
African American Biographical Database
African-American History
African American Music and Culture --Archives (Indiana University, Bloomington)
African American Newspapers sorted by state
African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
African American Studies, Beginning Library Research on a bibliography, some links
African American Studies: University of Pennsylvania
African Americans--Breaking Racial Barriers --portrait exhibit
African American Web Connection --An African American Cyber Gateway for the entire family
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
African Music
African National Congress The ANC and Nelson Mandela certainly have near universal name recognition
African National Congress --The ANC is the majority party in South Africa's Government
Africa News Online includes numerous links for current news and events in Africa
African Studies Center --University of Pennsylvania
African Studies: Central Connecticut State University quarterly newsletter
African Studies Quarterly University of Florida
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820
Amnesty International, USA
Association of Black Psychologists
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery
Bates, Daisy --collection of her papers
"Been Here So Long" Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives... includes photo gallery
BET.com "best African American community... great music.. news stories.. columns provide practical advice on careers and owning a home... has its own instant-messaging service" (YIL)
Black Collegian Online national magazine that focuses on career opportunities for young African Americans. While its target audience is college-age students, there is a broader scope, including commentary by leading African American writers
Black Facts what happened in Black history today - sign up to have the information sent to your email
Black History
Black Panthers
Black Press USA a partnership of the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation (NNPAF) and Howard University; coordinates national internship, fellowship, and scholarship programs and creates innovative programs
Black Thought and Culture electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders
Black World Today Maintained by "a collective of journalists, writers, artists, communicators, racial justice advocates, and entrepreneurs" in concert with the National Council of Churches, this site was launched in July 1996 in response to the epidemic of Black church burnings across the United States. Its main purpose is "to chronicle the daily social, political, cultural and economic realities of Black communities and countries . . . [and] to advocate the universal principles of civility, justice, fairness, and respect."
Blacks in Government
BLK news magazine for the black lesbian and gay community
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Boston African American Project
Breaking Racial Barriers --portrait exhibit
Callaloo African American and African arts and letters published by the Johns Hopkins University Press
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Center for Third World Organizing a racial justice organization dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission National Archives
Colorlines Magazine quarterly; focus on race, culture, and organizing within communities of color
Educational Resources: African American History
Essence Magazine news and commentary for African-American women
Exploring Amistad: Race & the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America full-text access to court records, popular media, government papers, maps, and images
The Frederick Douglass Papers more than 16,000 images from the Library of Congress
Free to Dance "chronicles the crucial role that African-American choreographers and dancers have played in the development of modern dance as an American art form"
Garvey, Marcus and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
HAITI notes and quotes
Hall of Black Achievement Bridgewater State College; portraits, biographies, audio clips
Hartford Black History Project
HBCU Central comprehensive site for all historically black colleges and universities (HBCU)
Historical Text Archive: African American articles, links
I'll make me a world--"celebrates the extraordinary achievements of 20th-century African-American writers, dancers, painters, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists who changed forever who we are as a nation and a culture"
Images of African Americans in the 19th Century a digital collection
Information Resources on African American Studies Stanford Univ. resource; intended as a starting point for research
Jackson Davis Photographs focus is on Southern education and race relations
Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet links organized by broad categories
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies multicultural scholarly publication
JAZZ & BLACK MUSIC page of links
Jim Crow, The History of
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
Jouvertd --Journal of Postcolonial Studies (North Carolina State University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Jump, Jim Crow, or, What Difference Did Emancipation Make? all about Jim Crow, the Freedmen's Association, Black codes, songs, much more
King, Jr., A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther written by Prof. Melvin Sylvester of Long Island University
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
Lest We Forget Triumph over Slavery
Martin Luther King and the Memphis Sanitation Workers, Court Documents Related to National Archives
Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund
Multicultural American West: A Resource Site covers native peoples, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, much more
Museum of Afro-American History, Boston
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Bar Association The African-American counterpart to the American Bar Association
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center sketches of historical figures in the abolition movement, an overview of the historic context, and a comprehensive collection of annotated links to other related Web sites
National Urban League "premier social service and civil rights organization in America . . . to assist African Americans in the achievement of social and economic equality."
North American Slave Narratives electronic texts from NEH
Our Shared History --National Parks Service
Paul Robeson, The Many Faces of National Archives
Records of Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843
Resources in Black StudiesThe African Diaspora - People of African Descent in the United States; Africa; the Caribbean & Latin America; Europe & Australasia
Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony refuge for escaped slaves during the Civil War - background, documents, maps, technology
Robeson, Paul Robeson: Princeton's Native Son includes links on the web and African American genealogy on the web
Save Our Sounds archive of American Indian music, the oral histories of ex-slaves, and hundreds of thousands of other speeches, poems, songs, and spoken-word projects that recount our country's history (YIL)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture collection of links
Self Determination Committee
The Shifting Pattern of Black Migration From and Into the Nonmetropolitan South, 1965-1995 a statistical study from U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (PDF format)
Slave Narrative 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
Slave Trade Archives
Slave Trade Archives Project original archive materials relating to the slave trade in countries throughout Africa and South America, including Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Brazil, and Nigeria
Slaves and the Courts: 1740-1860 "contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States"
Soul Search search engine for accessing information contained in the African American Web Ring - African American culture including art, dance, history, and personal pages
Strange Fruit --song sung by Billie Holiday
Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection in the south from the 1860s to the 1930s.
Two Nations of Black America
Underground Railroad presented by National Geographic; multimedia education site
Universal Black Pages developed by the Georgia Tech Black Graduate Students Association, its purpose is "to have a complete and comprehensive listing of African-diaspora related Web pages at a central site
Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories from the Library of Congress
When Black Men Ruled the World

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