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The Rise and Fall of
Jim Crow
This PBS site has useful timelines, interviews and personal
narratives, and links to important legislation and events that
shaped segregation in America.
African-American
Mosaic
Exhibition
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide
for the Study of Black History and Culture. This is an online
guide to an ongoing exhibit at the library. Includes text and
pictures from the exhibit.
Mississippi
State University African American History Archive
The Mississippi State University African American History Archive
is a great place to start for pointers to African-American history
sites, as well as an excellent repository of African-American
history primary documents. The site is divided into 3 sections:
articles, e-books and links. Each section has a great diversity of
information and the site makes for interesting browsing.
The Frederick
Douglass Papers
Part of the American Memory collection, this site contains more
than 2000 items including 1600 images concerning "Douglass' life
as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public
servant."
W.E.B.
Du Bois Papers
There are nearly 100,000 items i this collection including
correspondences, articles, speeches, newspaper clippings,
photographs and more. This site includes articles published in The
Crisis.
Daniel A.
P. Murray Pamphlet Collection
This collection, a part of the Library of Congress American Memory site,
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.
BlackPast.org
Besides the useful external links, this site includes timelines,
reserch guides, lists of major newspapers, journals and magazines
plus an extensive collection of primary documents from 1724 - 2009
Slave Narratives
from the Federal Writers Project 1936 - 1938
More than 2300 first person accounts of slavery and 500 images.
Database is searchable keyword, state, and name. You might also
look at the Voices
from the Days of Slavery.
Martin Luther King
Papers Project
"The Martin Luther King Papers Project," an on-line archive at
Stanford University of primary documents written during King's
life and secondary documents written about him. Links to articles,
biographical material, a chronology of events, and the full text
of some of his speeches. Also, information on the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta.
African
American
Bibliography: History.
Developed by the University of the State of New York, the New York
State Education Department, and the New York State Library.
Afro-American
Sources
in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
The publication, edited by Michael Plunkett, has the distinction
of being the first book published on the Internet by a university
press. In addition to detailed descriptions of the holdings of
twenty-six collections in Virginia, this guide includes 18
historical photographs and images of key manuscripts.
Third
Person, First Person
Subtitle, is "Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library
Broadside Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke
University." Based on an exhibit at Perkins Library, Duke
University, in November and December, 1995.
Quarterly Black Review of Books
The Quarterly Black Review of Books is a site that reviews the
latest in black fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's
books. It also includes a feature section, as well as a guide to
black classics by author, a listing of works of significant black
writers including W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou,
and Alice Walker.
Negro Leagues
Baseball
Takes one back in time to the other side of the "American
Pastime." You might also want to look at another useful site on
the Negro Baseball Leagues
National Civil
Rights Museum Web Site
Basic information about the museum, located in the Lorraine Motel,
Memphis. Among the more useful sections: "Virtual Tour," and
"About the Museum." Also has a link to the Birmingham Civil Rights
Institute. You might also want to look at the National Museum of African
American History and Culture.
Black Facts Online
At this site, produced by Inner City Software, one can look up
black history facts for every day of the year, perform full-text
searches for black history information, find out what black people
were born on one's birthday, etc. Claims to be "Your Internet
Resource for Black History Information."
Africans in America:
America's Journey Through Slavery
Based on the PBS series of the same name. There are four topics:
"The Terrible Transformations," "Revolution," "Brotherly Love,"
and "Judgment Day." Each topic is subdivided into a narrative
section, a resource bank, and a teacher's guide. The resource bank
is divided into "People and Events," Historical Documents," and
"Modern Voices" (interpretive essays).
Harriett
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Text of this famous memoir, plus other information about Jacobs,
her times, slavery, etc.
Boston
Abolitionists 1831-1865
This site includes 7 different sections which include useful
manuscripts, photos, issues of William Lloyd Garrison's
abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and other
interesting artifacts.
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