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African American Culture: Some Sites You Should Bookmark
This annotated listing of recommended African American Web sites was
prepared by Elna L. Saxton and Joe McClamroch, and published in the January,
1999 issue of College and Research Libraries News (vol. 60, no. 1). It is
organized into five categories: Getting started, Educational sites/research
centers, Organizations/associations, Afrocentric sites, and E-journals/news
services.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/resjan99.html
The African American Journey
World Book editors have assembled a comprehensive look at the history of
African Americans and their struggle for freedom in honor of Black History
Month. The articles in this feature were taken from the World Book
Multimedia Encyclopedia. There are also numerous links to World Wide Web
sites concerning important figures and events in black history, as well as
issues surrounding current events.
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
An online exhibit from the U.S. Library of Congress' American Memory project
that showcases the Library's extensive African American collections. It
traces the African American experience through nine chronological periods
that document the long and difficult path from slavery to Reconstruction to
the fight for civil and social equality in the twentieth century. With an
emphasis on historical materials, it contains images of rare books,
manuscripts, government documents, sheet music, movie posters and
photographs.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
African American Studies home page of the University of Arizona
This site is maintained by the University of Arizona Library. It offers
links to current holdings, the Black Information Network, the African
American News Service, and other useful sites.
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/hernande/african.html
African American Women
Duke University's on-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and
texts of the writings of African American women. Includes the memoirs of
Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), 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.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Africana.com
This site is produced by the co-editors of Microsoft Encarta Africana,
including Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah. Its
purpose is to promote understanding of black history and culture and to
promote the educational use of Microsoft Encarta Africana in homes,
schools, universities, and corporations. Coverage includes African American
lifestyle, heritage, worldview and art.
http://www.africana.com
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
The companion site to the Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) documentary
explores the odyssey of African slaves in America, from the arrival of
Europeans in Africa to the American Civil War. It is divided into four
chronological sections, with each section featuring a teacher's guide keyed
to a resource bank of more than 400 items including biographical
information, full-text reproductions of related historical documents, and
commentaries from contemporary experts. It boasts a major collection of
images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
AfroAmerica@
This award-winning site features 4 sections: African American Culture, which
includes community discussions, an art gallery and web links; Information,
which features Afro-American News; a History Museum, which includes, among
other topics, information on the Tuskogee Airmen, Black Panthers, the
Million Man March and Black correspondents who followed Black American
troops during World War II. The final section, The Kids Zone, features Fun
and Games, Myths and Fables, and Discover Africa sections.
http://www.afroam.org/index.html
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
The first on-line book by a university press, this guide was prepared in
collaboration with the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text
Center and the University's Information Technology and Communication
Department. Michael Plunkett, the library's director of special collections,
has updated the 1990 print version. It describes in detail the African
American history holdings of the 26 institutional collections in Virginia,
which range from early plantation records to diaries and letters to minutes
of modern-day civil-rights movement meetings. The electronic edition
includes some 18 historical photographs and images of key manuscripts and is
searchable in full text.
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/plunkett/mfp.html
American Slave Narratives - an Online Anthology
Transcripts of interviews with a dozen former American slaves conducted in
the 1930s by employees of the Works Progress Administration.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
The Amistad Case
"A collection of primary documents related to the Amistad slave uprising.
The site, provided by the U.S. National Archives, includes an account by the
captain of the ship that captured the Amistad after it was taken over by
slaves, a letter from former President John Quincy Adams requesting
information about the incident, and the opinion of the Supreme Court in
which the Amistad Africans were given their freedom."
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/amistad/home.html
The Amistad Research Center
"On-line index of the holdings of the Amistad research Center at Tulane
University. The center's archives include more than 10 million documents
from the American civil-rights movement and several collections of African
and African American Art."
http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad/
Been Here So Long: Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives
"This site, from the New Deal Network, features a selection of seventeen
interviews of former slaves conducted by members of the Federal Writers
Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As with the
recollections featured at the University of Virginia's American Slave
Narratives: An Online Anthology, these narratives are from the 2,000
interviews with ex-slaves collected during 1936-1938 by journalists and
other writers employed by the Federal Writers Project. In addition to the
narratives, it features an introductory essay, three lesson plans, and a
modest annotated guide to related online resources.
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/
Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
Hosted by the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University,
this exhibit explores "the relationship between art and politics in the
Civil War era" with over 100 digital images of Confederate notes. The images
are accompanied by an overview of the Civil War and brief essays on the
Antebellum economy and paper money in the mid-nineteenth century. It
includes a bibliography and collection of related links.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/cwc/BeyondFaceValue/index.htm
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
The Public Broadcasting System broadcast this award-winning film to
celebrate Black History Month, 1999. The film celebrates the history of
America's Black newspapers and includes interviews with key reporters,
publishers and photo journalists. Some of the prominent Black journalists
interviewed are Vernon Jarrett, former reporter with Chicago Defender,
Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times and Edward "Abie" Robinson,
former reporter with the California Eagle. The site includes a full
transcript of the film and ordering information.
http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/film/contentfilm.html
BlackVoices.com
One of America's largest African American virtual communities on the
Internet. The site features a variety of lifestyle, career and community
activities, including news, information, entertainment, sports, a
full-service career center, special interest clubs, chat rooms and its
popular member photo page.
http://www.blackvoices.com
Building One America for the 21st Century (The White House Office on the
President's Initiative for One America)
This is the official site of President Clinton's initiatives on race, which
began with the President's year-long initiative to present to the United
States his vision of a more just and united American community: The
President's Initiative on Race. The President's Initiative for One America
builds on the foundation laid by the Race Initiative's Advisory Board and
continues the work of the President's Initiative on Race.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/OneAmerica/america.html
Of special interest under One America is Pathways to One America In the 21st
Century: Promising Practices for Racial Reconciliation, a reference guide of
race-based programs that exemplify effective programs contributing to the
Unites States' on-going dialogue on racial reconciliation.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/OneAmerica/pirsummary.html
The Caldwell Journals
The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, a 22-year-old
nonprofit organization named after an African American journalist, has
published the first part of a series about the experiences of African
American journalists during the 1960s civil rights movement. The site,
essentially an interactive archive, is written by veteran journalist Earl
Caldwell, who is seen by many as a pioneer for other African American
journalists. The purpose of the series is to tell the story of those
journalists who were pioneers in this era.
http://www.maynardije.org/showcase/caldwell_journals/index.html
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
Researched and compiled by Eddie Becker, this site arose from independent
research into the Smithsonian Institution's oldest building in Washington,
DC, the Holt House. It includes comprehensive footnoted entries from
archival and secondary source documents, including links to full text
Internet sites. It includes details on the integral role played by slavery
in the formation of the U.S. Capital and political system, spanning the
period from 1619 to the present - with sections covering 1619-1789,
1790-1829, and 1830 to the present.
http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
The Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Its "Eras in Black History" examines five centuries of black heritage
through five distinct time periods, from the slave revolts of early America
through the successes of the Civil Rights Movement. Each era is further
divided by topic/profession, with biographies and photographs of notable
people and descriptions and documents of historic events. The "Timeline of
Achievements" traces the yearly contributions of African Americans in
politics, industry, the arts, religion, sports, and education. In addition,
the site can be browsed alphabetically through the expanded Articles A to Z
page, which contains links to every article through two lists--Biographies
and Events & Institutions. The Guide features informative articles and is
illustrated with historical film clips and audio recordings, as well as
hundreds of photographs and other images. The Related Internet Links and
Bibliography sections provide source material and areas for further study,
as does the Study Guide for Students.
http://blackhistory.eb.com/
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Part of the Louisiana State University Library site, Faces profiles African
American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science
and engineering. African American chemists, biologists, inventors,
engineers, and mathematicians have contributed in both large and small ways
that can be overlooked when chronicling the history of science. By
describing the scientific history of selected African American men and women
we can see how the efforts of individuals have advanced human understanding
in the world around us.
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html.
Freedom's Journal
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin presents the first 20 issues of
"Freedom's Journal," the first African American owned and operated newspaper
published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York
City from 1827 to 1829, and covered local, national, and international
events, as well as offering editorials on slavery, lynchings and other
injustices against African Americans. The remaining issues (there are a
total of 103) will be added in the near future. Note that the files are in
PDF format and might have to be viewd in an enlarged format to read easily.
http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/library/aanp/freedom/index.html
From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Part of the Library of Congress's American Memory project, the pamphlets in
this collection constitute online primary resources in African American
History. Written by African American authors in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, the materials deal with slavery, emancipation, African
colonization, and related topics. The site includes "complete page images of
397 titles ... as well as searchable electronic texts and bibliographic records."
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
Historical Text Archive
The Historical Text Archive provides historians with an electronic retrieval
site covering much of human history, including extensive coverage of African
American history. It includes original material, links to other sites and
reprints of books.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/afro/afro.html
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
A national, nonprofit institution that conducts research on public policy
issues of special concern to black Americans and other minorities. Founded
in 1970, the Joint Center provides independent analyses through research,
publications, and outreach programs.
http://www.jointctr.org/
Lives: The Biography Resource (Special Collections: African Americans)
This award-winning site features links to sites that focus on the lives of
individuals or groups of people; to sites that contain worthwhile
collections of links to other biographical resources and to primary
biographical source material such as images, diaries, memoirs,
correspondence, interviews, and oral histories; and to some of the best
biographical dictionaries.
http://amillionlives.com/Collect_spec.html
Madam C. J. Walker
One of the best sources of information about this African American
entrepreneur, hair care industry pioneer, philanthropist and social
activist. The site comes from A'Lelia P. Bundles the
great-great-granddaughter and biographer of Madam Walker.
http://www.madamcjwalker.com/
Nineteenth Century Documents Project
Produced by the History department at Furman University in South Carolina,
this site features full texts of primary documents in nineteenth-century
American history "with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on
sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity." Materials will
aid researchers examining issues of Slavery and Sectionalism, the
Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, the Dred Scott Case, the election of 1860, the
succession of the Southern states, and the immediate aftermath of the Civil
War in the South.
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
Pop + Politics: The Site for Insight
The site of Farai Chideya, an ABC News correspondent, who says that Pop and
Politics has all sorts of deep and quirky information. She does everything
from detailed statistical analysis of how the U.S. budget treats urban
America, education, crime, and welfare to a piece called "I'm Glad I'm Not
Black." that arose from something that a little girl said to her mother
while sitting on a plane and staring at her. She ended up having a
discussion with the mother about why we should talk to children about race,
and it ended up with a happy ending.
http://www.popandpolitics.com/
Resegregation in American Schools
This new report, issued by Gary Orfield and John T. Yun of the Civil Rights
Project at Harvard University, analyzes recent US educational data and
focuses on four significant demographic statistical trends in American
Schools: the resegregation of the American South, the rising segregation of
Latino students, the heightened segregation within suburban schools
surrounding major metropolitan areas, and the rapid emergence of schools
with three or more racial groups.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights/publications/resegregation99.html
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center, one of the research libraries of the New York Public
Library, is an institution devoted to collecting, preserving and providing
access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African
descent throughout the world. The Schomburg Center promotes the study of
these histories and cultures of the peoples and interprets its collections
through exhibitions, publications, and educational, scholarly and cultural
programs. This site includes information on the Center's various divisions:
art and artifacts; general research and reference; manuscripts, archives and
rare books; moving image and recorded sound; and photographs and prints. It
also contains links to other Internet sources of information on Africa and
the African diaspora.
http://gopher.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Selections from the African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource
Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
The information in this site is based on an exhibit marking the publication
of the African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the
Study of Black History and Culture, the first Library-wide resource guide to
the institution's African American collections. Covering the nearly 500
years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys
the full range, size and variety of the Library's collections, including
books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film and recorded sound.
This sampler from a much larger exhibition now in development covers the
beginnings of colonization, abolition, migration and the Works Projects
Administration (WPA).
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
Selected links to sites on African American history and culture hosted by
Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations. The site is divided into
two sections: African American Resources, and Exhibitions. African American
Resources includes links to sites such as "African and African American
Resources at the Smithsonian," "The African American Studies Center," and
"Anacostia Museum Reading Lists." Exhibitions such as "African Immigrant
Naming Ceremony," the "Amistad Case," "Million Man March Documentary
Photographs," and "Martin Luther King Jr. 'I Have a Dream'" are featured.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm
The Underground Railroad (National Geographic)
"This National Geographic feature site explores the pre-Civil War, covert
system that helped escaped slaves to reach freedom safely. It includes The
Journey, an interactive first-person account of a runaway slave; Routes to
Freedom, a Shockwave map of escape routes; Time Line, which chronicles
slavery in the New World from 1501 until the U.S. abolition of slavery in
1865; and Faces of Freedom, a section containing twelve very brief
biographies of famous abolitionists and civil rights leaders. In addition,
the site includes For Kids, a section for younger students, and Classroom
Ideas, which suggests educational activities for K-12 students. A discussion
forum and a list of resources and links provide visitors with more
opportunities to learn."
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
The W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research
Founded in 1975, the Institute is the nation's oldest research center
dedicated to the study of the history, culture and social institutions of
African Americans. It sponsors research projects, fellowships for emerging
and established scholars, publications, conferences and working groups.
Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard
University (1896), the Institute also sponsors two major lecture series each
year and serves as the co-sponsor for numerous public conferences, lectures,
readings and forums. The site provides information about upcoming
conferences as well as the various activities of the Institute.
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil-Rights Movement, A National
Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
An electronic guide to historic sites of the civil-rights movement, launched
at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Washington, DC. The guide is a
joint project of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service,
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, and
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. The online
travel itinerary includes 41 historic places in 21 states associated with
various aspects of the movement.
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/
Steven Mintz's Guide to Online Resources Concerning Slavery
A comprehensive guide to Web sites pertaining to the institution of slavery.
http://bentley.uh.edu/mintz/default.htm#slavery
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
Edited by Professor Steven Mintz, of the University of Houston, this site
includes excerpts from 49 Slave Narratives from the 17th to the 20th Century.
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
National Trust For Historic Preservation: African American History
http://www.nthp.org/main/afroamhistory.htm
Trailtones - The African American Heritage of Arizona University of Arizona
presents a research guide devoted to Arizona's African American history.
Find annotated bibliographies and photographs.
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/afamer/gsmithhp.htm
Guide to the African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
http://www.preservenet.cornell.edu/aahpf/homepage.htm
Connecticut Freedom Trail
http://www.ctfreedomtrail.com/
African American Heritage Society Brings artists and scholars to town to
celebrate African American culture and traditions. Learn about the society,
and find an events calendar.
http://www.artsnwfl.org/aahs/
Boston African American National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/
African American Heritage Trails in Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/~foundhum/AAHT/
Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail
Portsmouth has been home to Africans and African-Americans for more than 350
years. Against the odds of early enslavement and subsequent marginalization,
they and their descendants built communities and families, founded
institutions and served their town, state and nation in many capacities.
http://www.seacoastnh.com/blackhistory/trail.html
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