BLACK HISTORY REFERENCES ONLINE

Biographies and Databases 

Blacks and Classical Music http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/History.html

NAACP www.naacp.org

Afro American Almanac http://www.toptags.com/aama/

Black Facts Online  http://www.blackfacts.com/

African American Biographical Database http://aabd.chadwyck.com/

Biography.com http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/

Black History Month Biographies (Gale Group)http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/index.htm

The Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History
http://blackhistory.eb.com/

Facts on the Black Population in the United States: U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/afamhot1.html

A Deeper Shade of History http://www.seditionists.org/black/bhist.html

African American Pioneers http://afgen.com/pioneer.html

African American Profiles http://www.black-collegian.com/african/aaprofil.shtml

Biographies: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/biographies.html
Digital Schomburg Collection

The Faces of Science: African Americans http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html

Prominent African Americans http://www.aawc.com/paa.html

National Register of Historic Places: African-American History Month
www.cr.nps.gov/NR/feature/afam

Altman, Susan. Encyclopedia of African American Heritage, 1st Edition. New York: Facts on File, 2001. Middle School and up. Read more at Amazon.com

American Memory Collection, Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

Learning Page http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html

Collection Finder http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amtitle.html
  New! Slaves and the Courts.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/

African American Mosaic http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Freedom's Journal http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/library/aanp/freedom/index.html

Black Archives of Mid America http://www.blackarchives.org/

Images of African American from the 19th Century http://149.123.1.8/cgi-shl/vsc30b.exe/schomburg/images_aa19/toc.html?E+nyplbeta

Timelines and Calendars

African American Registry http://www.aaregistry.com/

Black History Month Timeline (Gale Group)
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/timeline.htm

African American World Timeline: PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline.html

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Schomburg/text/timeline-all.html

African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992.

A Deeper Shade of History http://www.seditionists.org/black/bhist.html

Chronology of Black Women's Organizations
http://abwh.tcnj.edu/CHRONOLOGY%20OF%20BLACK%20WOMEN%20ORGS.htm

Text and Speeches 

Classic African American Literature http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.htm

Writing Black: Texts & Resources on the Web http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html

Harlem Renaissance
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/harlem_intro.html

African American World: PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/index.html

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

The History Channel Speeches Archive http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html

African American Museums

Association of African American Museums http://www.blackmuseums.org/

African American Museums and Historical Sites http://www.sil.si.edu/Subject-Guide/afram-museums.html

African American Odyssey "Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections."

African American Mosaic A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture.

African American Perspectives A collection of pamphlets from the collections of the Library of Congress which documents African American history and culture.

The Museum of Afro American History Features a number of online exhibits on the Million Man march, Scottsboro Boys, Black Panther Party, African American participation in World War II, Tuskegee Airmen, and other topics.

Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier An exhibit from the International Museum of the Horse which focuses on the African-American 9th and 10th cavalry regiments known as the "Buffalo Soldiers". These two regiments constituted about twenty percent of the cavalry forces on the western frontier until about 1890.

Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection "at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance."

George Washington and Slavery an online exhibit from Mt. Vernon includes pictures of the slave quarters, a census of slaves, and other information.

Slave Narratives

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology. A University of Virginia project that uses WPA (Works Progress Administration) material.

Documenting the American South Includes slave narratives, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and other primary historical material.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives The extracts are grouped into topics: the passage on slave ships, conditions of life, family, religion, childhood, emancipation and others.

Supreme Court Decisions

History Channel Exhibit: Black History Month
www.historychannel.com/exhibits/blackhist/proindex.html
Tune into the History Channel's Web exhibit on Black History Month. During the months of January and February, consult the Black History Month TV Schedule for show times of many informative shows, such as "The Night Tulsa Burned." Use the correlating study guides that include extended activities, or use the guides to start the day with a featured discussion question. Go to "Great African Americans" and click on the names of some key figures in African-American history to learn more about them. Read about the Port Chicago Mutiny in a special feature on the site, which contains downloadable clips and pictures. Looking for a primary source? Visit the speech archives to hear actual speeches from historical personalities such as Malcolm X.

NASA QuestChats: Black History Month
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ltc/special/mlk99/ Chat with African-American scientists and engineers from NASA. You can view the archive of chats from 1998 and 1999, or check the schedule to join in on future events. Background text and photographs are included about each of the experts and information about the space program is also provided. You can use the suggested age-level activities for star watching, or plot the route of the Underground Railroad as a follow-up to reading Jeanette Winter's Follow the Drinking Gourd (Knopf, 1988).

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