African American Community and Culture
Black History & Classical Music
http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/History.html
Composers and musicians of African descent.
To Live Like a Slave
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/slave.cfm
A reenactment of the lives of blacks who inhabited slave quarters
in 1770.
Slave Quarters at Carter’s Grove
http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/hbslave.cfm
How slaves lived in 19th century Virginia.
African-American Experience
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/Af_Amer/aalife.cfm
African American experiences in colonial America.
Colonial African-American Life
http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/african/aaintro.cfm
A historical almanac of life in colonial America.
Harlem 1900-1940
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/exhibition.html
Online exhibition of life in Harlem.
Black History Month in Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/webguide/
pages/blackhistory.shtml
Links to Black History from the BBC.
African American History in Massachusetts
http://www.massteacher.org/teaching/links/links_spec_bhm.cfm
Links to Black History in Massachusetts
African American Churches
http://www.aawc.com/Zaac.html
Links to African American churches across the United States.
Mama’s Boyz
http://www.mamasboyz.com/
An African American comic strip.
African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
A collection of African American exhibits from the Library of Congress
Negro League Baseball
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/
Learn about the history of the league.
Black College Sports Online
http://www.onnidan.com
Keep updated with sports news from American Black colleges
Revelations
http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/jan03/114754.asp
50 great works from African-American art and culture
NAACP Timeline
http://www.naacp.org/about/history/timeline/
Here are just a few of the NAACPs hundreds and thousands of courageous
moments that involved everyone from school children to laborers
to professionals to presidents to just ordinary men and women, who
decided to champion what’s right and just on an extraordinary
level…
History of the National Urban League
http://www.nul.org/history.html
The National Urban League, which has played so pivotal a role in
the 20th Century Freedom Movement, grew out of that spontaneous
grassroots movement for freedom and opportunity that came to be
called the Black Migrations
Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722-1863)
http://www.ilsos.net/departments/archives/servant.html
Search the Servitude and Emancipation Records database from the
Illinois State Archives
Virginia Black History Archives
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/vbha/vbha.html
The Virginia Black History Archives (VBHA) Project is an attempt
to help document the history of African Americans in the Richmond
and central Virginia area.
Black History Sea Coast, New Hampshire
http://www.seacoastnh.com/blackhistory/
New Hampshire’s black history begins in Portsmouth in 1645.
Culture & Change – Black History in America
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/
Explore Black culture and change in America
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/
ncuhtml/csbchome.html
This is a compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that traces how Southern
African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity
into the central institution of community life.
Black History Month
http://cfmedia.scetv.org/periscope/display/
Black History articles from South Carolina educational television.
Sears Black History Month
http://64.73.24.51/
Salute to African American culture.
Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buf1.html
Over 180,000 African-Americans served in the Union Army during the
Civil War. This is their story.
Unchained Memories – Readings From the Slave Narratives
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/unchained_memories/
Premiers February 10, 8pm on HBO.
Your Guide to African American History and Culture
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
From Sojourner Truth to Jacob Lawrence, discover the courage and
talent that shaped the African American experience.
African Music Encyclopedia
http://www.africanmusic.org/
Important Cities in Black History
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmcities1.html
Atlanta to Washington, DC: landmarks in African-American history
A Historical Overview of Blacks in the National Hockey League
http://www.nhl.com/blackhistory/history.html
History of African Americans in the National Hockey League
African Voices
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/main/intro/intro.html
In this Web site explore objects that attest to Africa’s striking
diversity and long history. Listen as Africans talk about their
lives and cultures. Discover your connections to Africa.
Center for Black Music for Black Music Research (CBMR)
http://www.cbmr.org/
The CBMR is devoted to research, preservation and dissemination
of information about the history of black music on a global scale.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1826-1850/slavery/confesxx.htm
In the most important and best-documented slave insurrection in Southern history, Nat Turner, son of an African-born slave mother in Southampton County, Virginia, led an uprising of sixty or seventy slaves.
African-American History and Culture Items List
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/afrbib.html
A collection of historic papers from African-American history.
African American Perspectives
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection present 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.
Life of a Slave Girl
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hjhome.htm
Harriet Jacob's story of what it was like to be born and reared
in slavery.
African-American Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/
african-american-women.html
On-line Archival Collections. Letters and memoirs of slaves in the
South
American Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
An online anthology of interviews of over 2,300 former slaves.
Afro-American Almanac
http://www.toptags.com/aama/
A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. From the beginning of the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement, to the present.
African American Organizations
http://www.blackleadershipforum.org/member-org.html
African American organizations in the United States.
Mobility of Black America
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/exhibits/mobilepop.htm
African American experience in the United States has led to a variety of migrations through the last few centuries. Many of the migrations have been prompted by economic or social change and result in the establishment of unique ethnic identities in all regions of the United States. The below resources are a sampling of cultural and historical resources.
The Two Nations of Black America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/
This special report from Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews the thirty years since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. and includes interviews with Julian Bond, Quincy Jones, and Jesse Jackson.
Our Black Heritage
http://www.ourblackheritage.com/
Historical African American Documents
