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African American Almanac
The African American Almanac provides historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture in 28 topical chapters (e.g., African American Firsts, Politics, Family & Health). It also includes a chronology, a chapter of important primary documents, directories of organizations and businesses, a bibliography of recently-published works, annotated lists of crucial court cases, a filmography, hundreds of brief biographies, and more than 650 photographs, illustrations, maps, and statistical charts located within the most appropriate text

African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
This exhibit tells the story of the African-American artists' quest for creative recognition in their chosen art forms. The story follows these artists via their early exposure to European art and genre paintings and respectfully following these rules in their learned crafts. Later, there is a fusion shown, using the European, African, and American cultural context in these artists' works.

The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture

Archiving Early America:
Historic Documents from 18th Century America

Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc
This website is designed to serve African American library and information professionals seeking to learn and share in the exchange of information and resources for preserving and providing access to our cultural heritage

Black Film Center/Archive:
Repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans

Black History Hot List
The following six sites were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic.

Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Wide assortment of audio clips, film clips, and multimedia presentations. The timeline traces two millennia of black history, and the browse features enable you to pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in black history.

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

a part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction.

Historical Text Archive: African American History

The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.

It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet.

NAACP Home Page

Since its inception the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was poised for a long, tumultuous and rewarding history. Although it may be possible to chronicle the challenging and harrowing legacy of the NAACP, the real story of the nation's most significant civil rights organization lies in the hearts and minds of the people who would not stand still while the rights of some of America's darker citizens were denied.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center:
The historic efforts of the Underground Railroad

National Urban League

Established in 1910, The Urban League is the nation's oldest and largest community- based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

All communities in American society trace their origins in the United States to one or more migration experiences. America, after all, is "a nation of immigrants."

CATNYP, the Research Libraries Online Catalog of the New York Public Library

The New York Public Library is such a memory bank par excellence, one of the great knowledge institutions of the world, its myriad collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
Poems and biographical details of authors

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
includes tens of thousands of primary documents

World Wide Web Subject Catalog

World Wide African American Sites

Tragedy of the Negro in America (1897)
Stanford [author] begins The Tragedy of the Negro in America by distinguishing between the authorized tragedy of black Americans, represented by slavery, with the unauthorized tragedy of post-bellum injustice. In discussing the authorized tragedy, Stanford describes the first attempts at colonizing and Christianizing black communities in the West Indies, and moves on to the first importation of blacks into the American colonies. @UNC (for individual research only)