Black
History Month Resources
First be sure and check online databases such as SIRS,Gale Virtual Library, World
Book and Britannica. These four sources have excellent materials covering
African American History.
General History
The African American Almanac http://www.toptags.com/aama
Includes
information from the start of slavery through the civil 
Rights Movement up to the present.
African
voices http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/ Site maintained by the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Examines the influence of Africa’s people and
culture.
The African
American Mosaic http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/African/intro.html Exhibit and resources guide that to materials
available at the Library of Congress. Includes both images and texts.
National
Urban League http://www.nul.org/index.html
Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html PBS overview of African American history
which includes excerpts from many primary sources.
African
American History Through the Arts Project http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/african-american
African
American Literature Links http://curry.edschool.Viriginia.EDU/go/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.html
Complete
texts of many works of African American authors.
Black History
Month (InfoPlease) http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhml.html
Black History
Hotlist http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
A wonderful site with many, many additional links to African American
History Sites.
CNN:Black History Month 1999 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/blackhistory
History
Channel: Celebrate Black History http://historychannel.com/exhibits/blacklist
Internet African American Black History Challenge http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory.
National
Civil Rights Museum http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org
Time:
Celebrating Black History
http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhstory
AFRICAN AMERICAN PRIMARY SOURCES
Gateway to
African American History http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis
African
American Writers: On-line E-Texts http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm
Africans in America (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
Black Renaissance in Washington, D. C. http://www.dc.library.org/blkren
Frederick
Douglas Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml.doughome.html
Salute to
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color http://www.clstoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm
African
American Art and Design: Smithsonian Institute http://www.si.edu/art_and_design/african_american
Art of the
Harlem Renaissance http://www.iniva.org/harlem/index2.html
Images of
African Americans from the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19
CIVIL WAR & SLAVERY
American
Slave Narratives (UVA) http://xroads.viriginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
Born In
Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
Federal Writer’s Project, 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
From Slavery
to Freedom: The African-American
Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
Afro-Louisiana
History and Genealogy http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave
This site
documents over 100,000 slaves in Louisiana during the
18th and 19th century.
Includes
slave names, genders, ages, occupations, places of origin, prices that were
paid for slaves, et.
Atlantic
Slave Trade and Slave Life in America: A Visual Record
http:Hitchcock.itc.viriginia.edu/Slavery/index/php
Hundreds of
images that depict slavery and the slave trade, including maps, illustrations
and photographs.
Through
History with Amistad http://www.undergroundrailroad.org. Type in Amistad
Overview of
the Amistad Trials
1839-1940 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMISTAD.HTM
Amistad Trials—includes newspaper accounts: biographies of trial participants, trial
records; supreme court arguments and decisions,
letters and diary entries.
Black History
at HarpWeek.com http://blackhistory.harpweek.com
Full page
images of selected Harper’s Weekly
articles on African Americans published between 1857-1878.
Born in
Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
This is the
American Memory collection of more than 2,300 first person accounts of slavery
plus 500 photographs. Also you can
listen to interviews of 23 former slaves in the American Memory Collection,
voices from the Days of Slavery: Former
Slaves Tell Their Stories.
Death or Liberty Exhibition http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/DeathLiberty/index.htm
Exhibition at
the Library of Virginia covering Nat Turner’s Rebellion of 1831 and the Harpers
Ferry raid of 1859. Includes a selection of transcribed and digitalized documents.
Prehistory of
the Underground Railroad www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/slvtrade.htm
Underground
Railroad http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad
National
Geographic Presents Underground railroad—an interactive journey
What was the
Underground Railroad? http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/whatis.htm
Underground
Railroad in Franklin country http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/UGRR/underground.html
Underground
Railroad in Rochester New York http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/ugrr/home.html
Underground
Railroad—Routes to Freedom
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/map.html
The Dred Scott Case http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott This is a
collection of St. Louis Court recoreds that document the Scotts’ early struggle to gain
their freedom through legal litigation.
Freedom’s
Journal http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/
This is a project by the Wisconsin Historical Society to digitize all 103
issues of the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in
the United States (1827-1829).
Samuel J. May
Anti-Slavery Collection
http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/
This is a
digitalized collection of thousands of anti-slavery and abolitionist material
from Cornell University.
Slavery in New York http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/index.html
Exhibition by
the NY Historical Society includes narratives and images.
Slaves and
the Courts http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml This collection contains over a hundred pamphlets
and books which were published between 1772 and 1889 which concerned the
difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in
the American colonies and the United States.
Extension of
Slavery in New Nation (10 1819) http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994ch5_p2.htm
History of
Africans in America (1791-1831) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/narrative.html
History of
Africans in America (1831-1865) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/narrative.html
History of
Slavery Chronology (1790-1829) http://innercity.org/holt/chron_1790-1829.html
History of
Slavery Chronology (1830-end) http://innercity.org/holt/chron_1830_end.html
Taking the
Train to Freedom http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm
Great
discussion of the Underground Railroad
CIVIL RIGHTS
Brown v.
Board of Education Digital Archive http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/index.html This site contains
documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this case.
Civil Rights
Documentation Project http://www.congresslink.org/civilrights/index.htm
Emphasizes
civil rights legislation from 1963-1965—has many primary sources and a good
timeline.
Civil Rights
Special Collection http://www.teachersdomain.org/exhibits/civil/index.html
Collection of primary sources, media, interviews and lesson plans.
History of
Jim Crow http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
This is the
teacher’s companion site to the PBS documentary, “The Rise and Fall of Jim
Crow”.(Which the library owns). The site includes photographs, personal
narratives, essays and lesson plans.
Milburn
(Mississippi Burning) Investigation http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/miburn.htm
This site
contains 948 pages of FBI documents concerning the murder of 3 civil rights
workers in Milburn Mississippi in
1964.
Powerful
Days: The Civil Rights Photography of
Charles Moore
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml
This is an
exhibition of Charles Moore’s civil rights movement photographs.
We Shall
Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil
Rights Movement
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
Race and
Place: An African-American Community in
the Jim Crow South: Charlottesville, VA. http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/index.html
This is an
archive about the racial segregation laws or what is better known as the ‘Jim
Crow” laws. Includes
newspaper articles and photographs.
Seattle Civil
Rights and Labor History Project http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
This site
contains stream-video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents,
movement histories and personal biographies.
Trials of the
Scottsboro Boys http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
Site
documenting the 1930’s trials of the Scottsboro boys including excerpts from
court documents, contemporary newspaper accounts, letters, photographs and
biographies. This site is part of the
Famous trial site.
Voices of
Civil Rights
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html This is a large collection of “thousands of
personal stories, oral histories, and personal artifacts of the Civil Rights
Movement” collected by the Library of Congress.
ACTS OF CONGRESS
Act
prohibiting Slave Trade From US to Foreign Lands (1794) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/slavery/sl001.htm
Act for the
Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1790)—Pennsylvania http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statutes/pennst01.htm
Civil Rights
Act 1866 http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/crts1866.htm
Compromise of
1850 & Fugitive Slave Act http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html
Emancipation
Proclamation (1863)
Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1549t.html
Library of
Congress’ Emancipation Proclamation Site
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.html
Emancipation
Proclamation: NARA Exhibit http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/index.html
Kansas-Nebraska
Act 1854 http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
History of
the Missouri Compromise (1820) http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/mcomp.htm
RACIAL SEGREGATION
Black Codes
in Texas—An Overview
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/jsb1.html
Black Codes
of Mississippi (1865) http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/bcodes.htm
History of
Jim Crow http://www.jimcrowhistory.org
Plessy V. Ferguson http://findlaw.com Click on Search Cases and Codes.
Enter Search term--Plessy v Ferguson
Introduction to the Court Opinion on Plessy V. Ferguson
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/33.htm
History of
Integration—Introduction http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/school-integration/index.html (Be sure and view table of contents).
George
Wallace & Segregation http://www.cnn.com/US/9809/14/wallace.obit/wallace.bio.html
Little Rock Nine
http://www.centralhigh57.org/The_Little_Rock_Nine.html#LR9
Little Rock
Central High 40th
Anniversary http://www.centralhigh57.org
This site has
photos and stories surrounding the Little Rock Nine. These were nine African-American students who
participated in desegregation during the late 1950’s.
Brown v Board
of Education (1951-1954)
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html A large site with many links.
Brown v.
Board of Education: An Overview http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/brown.htm
Racial
Segregation in the U.S. Public Schools http://www.ncs.pvt.k12.va.us/ryerbury/govweb2/govweb2.htm
SITES ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY OR
WITH TIMELINES
Tangled
Roots http://www.yale.edu/glc/tangledroots/ This project is
produced by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the
Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.
It is a collection of primary documents from the 17th century
to the present about how African Americans and Irish Americans share
history. The center’s archive also has
more than 200 digitized items which deal with African American history.
The
African-American Migration Experience http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm?bhcp=1 This site was
created by the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research
in Black culture. It makes available to
the public 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.
The Church in
the Southern Black Community
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/index.html
Collection of publications beginning with the Revolutionary period and
ending in the early 20th century.
From Slavery
to Freedom: The African-American
Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
This is a
collection of 397 pamphlets published from 1824 through 1909 by African
American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization,
Emancipation, Reconstruction and related topics. Part of American memory.
African-American
Pamphlets http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
This is the
Daniel a. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection which presents a review of
African-American history and culture from the early 19th century
through the early 20th century.
This is also a part of American memory.
Black Archives
of America http://www.blackarchives.org/
Images are
drawn from Black Archives of Mid-America collections. Materials selected include photographs,
manuscripts, local written histories, African American newspapers, and
pamphlets. Focus is on African Americans
in Missouri.
Harlem
History http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/index.html
“Harlem
History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia about the
history of one of the world’s most famous and influential neighborhoods.
About.com
Civil rights http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/civilrights
Historical
Text Archive http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Psychedelic
60s: The Civil Rights Movement http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/civil.html
Speeches
http://www.nps.gov/archive/malu/documents/speeches_toc.htm
This site has
the full text of speeches that supported the civil rights movement from 1849 to
the present.
BIOGRAPHIES
Angelou: Brief Overview http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?actionviewone
The Frederick
Douglass Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ The first release of this Library of
Congress collection contains over 2000 items and “contains the writings of
Douglass and such contemporaries in the abolitionist and early women’s rights
movements as Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Gerrit
Smith, Horace Greeley, and others. Part
of American Memory
Speech by Carmichael http://courses.washington.edu/spcmu/carmichael
Frederick
Douglas—Abolitionist/Editor: A Biography
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/DOUGLASS/home.html
Covers Douglass’ years as a slave, his beginnings as an abolitionist, Rochester years, Civil
War years, Life after the 13th amendment.
The Color
Line—Frederick Douglas http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html
This is part of
a collection of several of Frederick Douglas’ works.
Medgar Evers-Life Overview (The African American Journey)
http://olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar/index.html
The Faces of
Science: African Americans in the Sciences https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html An extensive collection of biographies of
African American scientists. There is
usually a photograph.
Marcus Garvey
& UNIA Papers Project http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/
“Born in the
Wake of Freedom” John
Mitchell, Jr. and the Richmond Planet. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/mitchell/index.htm This is the history of the oldest African
American newspaper and it’s most famous editor.
This exhibit was created by the Virginia Newspaper Project.
James
Farmer: Oral Histories http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/mitchell/index.htm
Harriet Tubman
Biography-Women
of the Hall http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?actionviewon
Jesse
Jackson—An interview with Andrew Young
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/jesse/interviews/young.html
Malcolm
X: A Research Site http://www.brothermalcolm.net/mxcontent.html
This site is
designed to be a resource for scholarship.
Includes an extensive chronology and some audio clips.
Martin Luther
King Jr. project http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Sponsored by Stanford University and the MLK Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
Includes a brief, selected documents, and a
searchable database of transcriptions of MLK papers and secondary works.
Reflections
of Black History http://www.freepress.org/fleming/fleming.html
Memoir of
Thomas C. Fleming, black journalist and co-founder of the Sun-Reporter,--covers
most of the 20th century.
Booker T.
Washington Papers http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/index.html
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.
Thurgood Marshall http://members.aol.com/klove01/marshall.htm
Colin
Powell: Bush’s Trump Card (2000) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1073212.stm
Collin Powell
on the Gulf War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/powerll/1.html
The Rosa
Parks Portal http://www.e-portals.org/Parks/
Comprehensive
site with various links to resources
Rosa Parks
(Time Magazine) http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
Soldiers Without Swords http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/film Tells the story of the pioneering men who
helped give the Black American a voice in the press.
Beyond the
Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil
Rights Advocate http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/
MARTIN LUTHER KING
CELEBRATE
MARTIN LUTHER KING’S BIRTHDAY BY
INVESTIGATING SOME OF THESE INTERNET SITES
http://www.lib/su.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html Martin Luther King, Jr. The Man
This is a biographical sketch.
http://www.lib/su.edu/hum/mlk.srs216.html Timeline of Events in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Life.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/ Martin Luther King Holiday Page
This Web page has information about
celebrating Dr. King’s birthday as a national holiday.
http://www.mlkday.org Martin Luther King Day of Service
Join
thousands of people who are celebrating Dr. King’s Birthday by serving their
fellow citizens.
http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2006/walkup Man of the Year (Time Magazine)
Scroll down
on left hand side to Past Covers. Enter
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
http://www.fno.org/poetry/standing.html Standing Tall
This is a poem written by Jamieson
McKenzie in the online magazine “From Now On.”
http://www.nps.gov/malu Birthplace, National Historic Site
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk History of the National Martin Luther King,
Jr. Day
Presented by the Seattle Times company
http://www.holidays.net/mlk Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Includes “I
Have a Dream ….” Speech.
http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/1964a.html Nobel Prize Information File on Dr. King
Discusses
Martin Luther King, Jr. receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.mlkmemorial.org Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King The Martin Luther King Jr.
Research and Education Institute.
Be sure and click on Liberation Curriculum, classroom resources, King
Encyclopedia.
A great site!
http://thekingcenter.org The King Center
Center was established in 1968 by Coretta
Scott King as the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the
legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.pocanticohills.org/taverna/98/king.htm Dr. Martin Luther King
site prepared by
elementary school—has some fun games, timeline and basic information.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History
Month
Selected
Reference Sources from Louisiana State University Libraries
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html Time Magazine
Time magazine
explores the way in which King helped shape the political and social fabric of
the times.
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/king_m.htm Gale’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Free
Site. Describes
Martin Luther King, Jr. during the decade from 1957 to 1968.
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm A Tribute to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml Martin Luther King, Jr.
A short biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/K/htmlK/kingmartin/kingmartin.htm The Martin Luther King
Assassination. Records the events
of what happened on April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee.
http://www.king-raleigh.org King Celebration 2007.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/search/search.php?searchtext=martin%20luther%20king&refinetext=& Martin Luther King,
Jr.—History Channel. Several articles and interactive features.
http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/321_84.html Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Testament
of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/king/mlk01.htm Avalon Project: I have a Dream by Martin Luther King,
Jr. August 28, 1963.
http://www.42explore2.com/king.htm Martin Luther King Jr. A directory of links
relating to him.
Library Books and Videos/DVDs
323.092 KIN Carson,
C. Autobiography
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
323.4 KIN King, Martin & Co The Words of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
973.93 BRA Branch, Taylor Parting the Waters: America in the King
Years
1954-1963
BIO KIN Rhodes, L. Coretta
Scott King
BIO KIN Jakoubek, R. Martin Luther King, Jr.
BIO KIN King, Coretta S. My Life with Martin
Luther King, Jr.
BIO KIN Lewis, David King: A Critical Biography
BIO KIN Miller, William Martin
Luther King, Jr.: His Life, Martyrdom,
and Meaning for
the World
BIO KIN Oates, Stephen Let
the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
VHS 323 KIN King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech.
VHS 323 MAR Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream
VHS 347.1 ROA The
Road to Brown: Events Leading up to the
1954 Brown vs. Board of Ed:
VHS 815 MAR Martin Luther King,
Jr.
VHS BIO KIN Martin, the
Emancipator
VHS BIO KIN Martin
Luther King, Jr.
