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Celebrations

Kwanzaa Information Center http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/ Browse this site to learn about this spiritual, festive and joyous celebration.

Juneteenth http://www.juneteenth.com/ Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery.

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Culture

A short blog (video blog) about tradition kente weaving in Ghana's Ashanti region. Kente, perhaps the most famous West African textile, is brightly colored, coming in a variety of patterns, some reserved for use by Ashanti royalty. The video was shot in the historic kente weaving village of Bonwire, about an hour south of Kumasi. Three weavers are featured, each using a traditional loom to make the cloth. The video also contains music performed by Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy, used with permission from Alula Records. There are two versions of the video: high resolution (13 megs) and low resolution (two megs). High res video: http://www.andycarvin.com/video/kenteweavers.mov Low res video: http://www.andycarvin.com/video/kenteweavers2.mov

The African-American Mosaic http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.

The African-American Odyssey http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html Thanks to a major gift from the Citicorp Foundation, the Library has launched a five year effort to add rare and unique items from the Library's vast African American collections to the National Digital Library.

African American Inventors http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/afinvent.htm Information or research assistance regarding African American inventors is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared by the Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center's Public Inquiry Mail and Telephone Information Service Unit in cooperation with the Anacostia Museum, Office of Education, to assist those interested in this topic.

African American Web Connection http://www.aawc.com/Zaawc0.html Information for the whole family.

Black History Month http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm Biographies, timeline, activities. literature and much more can be found at this excellent site.

Wrapped in Pride http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/kente/top.htm A display and background information on kente cloth can be found at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art web site.

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Famous People

African American Warriors http://www.aawar.net/default.htm This site is full of information of soldiers throughtout U.S. history from the Revolutionary War to Colin Powell. Many links to biographies.

African-American Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html Special Collections Library, Duke University. Includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia.

African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/african_americans.asp The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. The Avalon Project has an extensive collection of documents in American law, history, and diplomacy which deals with the African American experience.

African-Americans in the Visual Arts http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm Information on painters, sculptors, muralists, engravers, portraitists, print makers, illustrators, photographers, woodcut printers, lithographers, folk artists, and cartoonists.

Biography.com celebrates Black History Month http://www.biography.com/black_history/index.jsp Short biographies of famous Black Americans.

Black Cowboys and Pioneers http://www.mmsd.org/elib/elib.cgi?cat=178 Information on the key role of African American men and women in the settling of the west. Includes biographies.

Black History Month http://www.history.com/minisites/blackhistory/ Read about great African Americans.

Black Voices http://blackvoices.aol.com/ Africana.com was launched in 1999 by the editors of the print Africana and Encarta Africana encyclopedia. Describing itself as the "Digital Bridge," this resource contains a wide variety of content and services, including e-mail, daily and archived news and feature stories from a variety of sources, interactive discussion, shopping, music, book and movie reviews, and a crossword puzzle. Feature stories are organized into "channels" such as "Black World" and "Arts." The Encarta Africana portion of the site links to articles featured on the Web page. The list of articles is browsable but there is also a site search feature. Now a part of the AOL Time Warner family, the site has undergone some hanges, including streamlined graphics and a new e-mail utility. This site is well organized and is a particularly good site to consult for people and current events in the black community. Best Free Reference Web Sites 2001 Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of American Library Association

The Booker T. Washington Papers http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/ The Booker T. Washington Papers Online is a completely free and searchable web site designed to provide researchers worldwide with full access to the thousands of pages comprising this 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press.

Celebrating Black History http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory/ Time Magazine. Black Americans helped shape America, and continue to play important roles in fields ranging from education to entertainment.

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciencees https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.

Fats Waller http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/fw/fatsmain.htm This site from the Rutgers Institute for Jazz Studies offers a “jumpin” tribute to jazz legend Fats Waller, complete with lots of music. A wonderful site full of sound clips and images - many from the collection of Waller’s manager. Good background site for a discussion of jazz, black history, or American music.

Martin Luther King Jr. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/ Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement. There are links to Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. papers project and other African American Web sites.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/ This site contains secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life.

Malcolm X: A Research Site http://www.brothermalcolm.net/mxcontent.html This Website offers a chronology of Malcolm X's life and a comprehensive listing of his speeches, writings, and interviews

Rosa Parks Pioneer of Civil Rights http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1 An INTERVIEW on June 2, 1995, Williamsburg, Virginia

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Harlem Renaissance

Great Day in Harlem http://www.harlem.org/ Explore jazz history through one photograph. Browse by timeline, artist, instrument, and style.

Harlem 1900-1940 http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/ An African American community.

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/ A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number.

Harlem Renaissance - A Brief Introduction http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html An Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance.

Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.iniva.org/harlem/intro.html As the Jazz age dawned in the early 1920's, African American artists, writers and musicians flocked to a district of Manhattan called Harlem. 'The Mecca of the New Negro' soon became home to a cultural revolution, repercussions of which would be felt around the world, from the USA to Europe and Africa. The rich artistic legacy of the Harlem Renaissance rages from the music of Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith, to the paintings of Aaron Douglas and the poetry of Langston Hughes.

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History

54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/54ma.html Portraying the experience of the African American soldier in the American Civil War in South Carolina.

The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html A Library of Congress, American Memory web site. A selection of manuscripts, printed text, and images were drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society. It illustrates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920. It is a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes.

African American Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaffsfl.htm A history of African Americans who fought in wars from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War. It includes Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Colin Powell.

The African-American Migration Experience http://www.inmotionaame.org/ In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. There are more than 16,500 pages of essays, books, articles, and manuscripts, 8,300 illustrations, 100 lesson plans, and 60 maps that will help users understand the peoples, places, and the events that have shaped African America's migration traditions of the past four hundred years."

African American Odyssey http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html The Library of Congress offers this nine-part introduction to the history of African Americans. The site relies on primary sources - images, letters, speeches - to illustrate contemporary views and chronicle their evolution from the Revolution through the civil rights movement.

African American Pamphlets Home Page http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.

African American World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/ A guide to African American history and culture. From Sojourner Truth to Jacob Lawrence discover the courage and talent that shaped the African American experience.

African Americana http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/african.html Links.

African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/african_americans.asp The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. The Avalon Project has an extensive collection of documents in American law, history, and diplomacy which deals with the African American experience.

The African Presence in the Americas http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Schomburg/index.html The African Presence in the Americas is designed to introduce you to the dynamics and dimensions of the 500 year history of African people in the Americas. Four broad themes have been selected for exploration: Migration, Work, Culture, and Resistance.

Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html The Web 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.

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html Between 1936 to1938, writers and journalists interviewed 2,300 former slaves from the South. This site provides first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.

American Voices, African Voices. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/ In this web site explore objects that attest to Africa's striking diversity and long history. Discover your connections to Africa.

Black facts on line http://www.blackfacts.com/index.asp Use Black Facts Online for research, education and fun 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Black History Hotlist http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html Resources that are listed on site come from all over the Internet. Some are provided by companies like CNN Interactive while others are the products of university scholars or amateurs

Black History Month http://www.factmonster.com/spot/bhm1.html A history.

Black History Month http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html History and Timelines

Black History Month http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm This site is the Black History Month free resource from Gale Resources. Thomson Gale has assembled a collection of activities and information to complement classroom topics. Within this site, teachers and students can:   .Read biographies of African-American individuals .Take a Black History Month quiz .Follow a timeline of events that helped shape African-American heritage .Enjoy activities taken from the Black History Month Resource Book .Explore African-American literature

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ This site 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) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.

Brown v. Board of Education - National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/brvb/ "On October 26, 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-525 establishing Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools. ...The site consists of the Monroe Elementary School, one of the four segregated elementary schools for African American children in Topeka and the adjacent grounds." National Parks Service

The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/BUFFPAGE.HTM Over 180,000 African-Americans served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Of these, more than 33,000 died. A history of the Buffalo Soldiers.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/ The Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History features 600 informative articles and is beautifully illustrated with historical film clips and audio recordings, as well as hundreds of photographs and other images.

Eyes on the Prize: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1954 to 1965 by Peter Neal Herndon. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/1/92.01.03.x.html This web site provides provides a detailed high-school lesson plan to accompany the PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize, including discussion questions and a bibliography. (Gr. 10–12). It is hosted by Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

From Slavery to Civil Rights http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/civilrights/flash.html A Timeline of African American history.

From Slavery to Freedom: African-American Pamphlet Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches.

History of Jim Crow http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/ The history of Jim Crow encompassed every part of American life, from politics to education to sports. Explore the complex African American experience of segregration from 1870- 1950.

Homecoming http://www.pbs.org/itvs/homecoming/ A history of black farmers and farming from the Civil War to the present.

I will be heard http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/ This Cornell University online exhibit provides a detailed portrait of the abolitionist movement in America.

Images of African Americans in the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/ The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library offers this selection of images of 19th-century African Americans.

Million Man March http://photo2.si.edu/mmm/mmm.html Smithsonian photographers document the march as part of continuing documentary coverage of events on the National Mall

Portraits In Black: Buffalo Soldiers and Sailors Web Site http://portraitsinblack.com/ This Web Site is gratefully dedicated to the memory of black men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces and defended freedom and democracy.

Powerful Days in Black and White http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml Shocking photographs brought the civil rights struggle to all America. Relive it now thru the eyes of photojournalists Charles Moore

Remembering Jim Crow. By Stephen Smith, Kate Ellis, and Sasha Aslanian http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/index.html For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as American citizens. Until well into the 1960s, segregation was legal. The system was called Jim Crow. In this documentary, Americans—black and white—remember life in the Jim Crow times.

Slaves and the Courts, 1740- 1860 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ 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. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance.

The Underground Railroad Site at UC Davis http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/title.htm For the many African Americans who lived in the Slave States prior to and during the American Civil War, the Underground Railroad provided them the opportunity and assistance for escaping slavery and finding freedom.

The Underground Railroad from National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/ History of the Underground Railroad.

We Shall Overcome: Historic places of the Civil Rights Movement http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/ Tour of forty-one houses, schools, churches, and buildings associated with civil rights activism and events.

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Information - Current

The BLACK COLLEGIAN Online http://www.black-collegian.com/ At this site one can find career planning/job search information, lifestyle/entertainment features, general information on college life, and news of what's happening on college campuses today.

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/ This online companion to Stanley Nelson's film traces the history of African American journalism, including mini-biographies, stories of a few newspapers, a timeline, teaching resources, links, etc.

Digital Schomburg: Images of African Americans from 19th Century. New York Public Library http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/ Displays digital images of nineteenth-century African Americans and nineteenth-century African American women writers.

Facts on the Black/African American Population http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/NEWafamML1.html From the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and other information.

North American Slave Narratives http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/ "North American Slave Narratives" documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Patchwork of African American Life http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html Exploring African-American issues on the Web.

RadioBlack.com http://www.radioblack.com/ A collective guide to radio stations around the world, with radio formats catering to the Black, Urban, African American market and fans there of. Black Radio Stations have music formats such as: Gospel, Hip Hop, Rap, R&B, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Reggae, Caribbean, Soca, Reggae Dancehall, Go-Go, African and Talk relevant to the Black community.

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Literature, Music and Art

African American Literature On-line http://www.geocities.com/afam_literature/ The purpose of this web site is to provide the reader with a comprehensive guide to African American Literature during the Twentieth Century. Here, you will find over 75 novels, poems, autobiographies, and essays along with summaries of the selected literature.

African American Sheet Music - 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/ This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920.

African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/ African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. Browse by title, author, fiction, poetry, biography, or essays.

A Brief Chronology of African American Literature http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm

Digital Schomburg: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. New York Public Library. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers.

Duke Ellington: Celebrating 100 years of the man and his music http://www.dellington.org/ This site is a collaboration between ARTSEDGE, The Music Educator's National Conference and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. It is designed to bring the world of Duke Ellington alive for students and others interested in his life and music.

National Museum of African Art http://www.nmafa.si.edu/ The National Museum of African Art plays a major role in the collection of contemporary African art in the United States. The National Museum of African Art is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution.

Seven Famous African-American Masters of American Art http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/4/93.04.09.x.html By Maxine E. Davis Paintings, sculpture, graphics, and architectural and decorative art objects serve to remind us of the diversity, aesthetic quality and humanistic strength of minority creative efforts through the centuries.

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Religion

Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/index.html "The Church in the Southern Black Community" traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life.

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Sports

Black Baseball's Negro Baseball League http://www.blackbaseball.com/ A comprehensive resource on the web for information about the Negro Baseball Leagues.

Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights 1860 –1960 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/ Manuscripts, books, and photographs tell the story of Jackie Robinson and early baseball..

Negro League Baseball http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/ History of the Negro League.

Offical Site of Jackie Robinson http://jackierobinson.com/ The Official Web site of Jackie Robinson has everything you want to know about this famous baseball player. Read his biography and learn the story of how Jackie broke the color barrier. Browse the photo gallery for pictures of Jackie on and off the field!

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