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African American
The collections of The Newark Public Library are rich in materials
by, for, and about African Americans. You may wish to peruse these
Internet sites in addition to those Library print and audiovisual
resources.
Black History Month
2008: Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism.
"Among those intellectuals of the Progressive era, Carter G.
Woodson did most to forge an intellectual movement to educate
Americans about cultural diversity and democracy. For the sake of
African Americans and all Americans, Woodson heralded the
contributions of African Americans and the black tradition. In
1915, he established the Association for the Study of Negro Life
and History and by the time of his death in 1950, he had laid the
foundation for a rethinking of American identity. The
multiculturalism of our times is built on the intellectual and
institutional labors of Woodson and the association he
established. He should be known not simply as the Father of Black
History, but as pioneer of multiculturalism as well.
In honor of its founder, the Association for the Study of African
American Life and History devotes the 2008 Annual Black History
Theme to both the labors of Woodson and the origins of
multiculturalism."
General Interest
Megasites:
African American Web
Connection
http://www.aawc.com/aawc.html
"An African
American Gateway for the Entire Family," with material about the arts,
history, prominent people, publications, and issues.
BET.com
http://www.bet.com
Continuously
updated news and entertainment, with channels for careers, health, home,
lifestyles, money, and technology.
Black History
Hotlist
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
Resources
for thinking about slavery, African American soldiers, leaders, civil
rights, the Million Man March, current events, etc.
Black Quest Power Resource
Links
http://blackquest.com/link.htm
A multitude of
connections to sites about Black culture, history, and society.
Black
Studies
http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/blacks.html
From
City College of New York, here is a cornucopia of generally scholarly
websites about affirmative action, Black power, civil rights, the Harlem
Renaissance, literature, media, sports, women, and many more topics.
Black
Voices
http://www.blackvoices.com
This site focuses on
African American culture and community, offering articles on
African American sports, news, entertainment, style and beauty,
relationship advice and more.
Gateway to African American
History
http://tinyurl.com/dphkw
Covering
culture, contemporary issues, and contacts, as well as significant
material about history--this site, from the U.S. Department of State, is
continuously updated.
Information Please
Celebrates Black History
Month
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
A rich
assortment of insights, including affirmative action, arts and
entertainment, civil rights, science, sports, and controversies, such as
the question of America's financial debt to African Americans.
Kids Domain
Black History Links
http://tinyurl.com/2p599h
History, crafts, games, and e-cards will educate and
entertain children of all ages.
Arts and
Entertainment:
African American
Art on the
Internet
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm
Links
to galleries, museums, exhibits, and resources about individual artists,
such as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Faith Ringgold.
African
American Sheet Music,
1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown
A
Brown University collection of ballads, love songs, military tunes,
minstrel music, ragtime classics, spirituals, and other popular songs,
digitized by the Library of Congress. "Particularly significant in this
collection are the visual depictions of African Americans which provide
much information about racial attitudes over the course of the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries."
African Americans
in Motion
Pictures
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/movies.htm
Discussions of early independent
filmmakers, race movies, the integration period, comedians, experimental
film, established celebrities, and other themes make this an engaging
resource.
African Americans
in the Visual
Arts
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm
African
influences, the Harlem Renaissance, the WPA, museums, and famous
artists.
Afrocentric
Voices in Classical Music
http://www.afrovoices.com/index.html
Learn about the contributions of such luminaries as Kathleen
Battle, H.T. Burleigh, and Leontyne Price; and enjoy exploring the
suggested links to a wide range of genres.
Archives of
African American Music
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/netresources.html
Links to blues,
classical, gospel, jazz, r&b, rap, rock, soul; even composers, music
education, radio stations, and more.
Black Film
Center/Archive
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/websites.html
This
"Selected List of Film-Related Internet Resources" links users to websites
about actors, directors, and producers; distributors; film festivals;
reviews; periodicals; and other resources relevant to African Americans in
film.
Black Talent
News
http://www.blacktalentnews.com
Black Hollywood and
music reports from the Black Entertainment Network.
Black Baseball's Negro Baseball
Leagues
http://www.blackbaseball.com
A vast site about the
sport's history, players, and teams; with current events as well.
Blackflix.com
http://www.blackflix.com
African
American movie stars, reviews, interviews, music notes, industry business,
links, and other popular features.
Free to
Dance
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance
Chronicle of African
American dance, with marvelous biographies and probing commentaries.
Jazz History: A Great Day in
Harlem
http://www.harlem.org
"Explore jazz history
through one photograph" and find information about instruments, historic
event, or artist.
Lift Every
Voice and
Sing
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15588
Written
in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday,
this poem was set to music by J. Rosamond Johnson and was referred to by
generations as "The Negro National Anthem." The Academy of American Poets
site gives texts of other Johnson poems as well as biographical and
critical material.
MelaNet Kwanzaa Information
Center
http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/whatis.html
"While Kwanzaa is a
seasonal event, the seven principles...are intended to be a year-round way
of life."
Midnight
Ramble
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/black
Black Hollywood, from the 1920’s
through the 1940’s, described and pictured in intriguing detail.
Negro League
Baseball
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com
History,
teams, players, and links to additional resources.
PBS-JAZZ, A Film by Ken
Burns
http://www.pbs.org/jazz
Enhancing the television
documentary on the history of jazz, this site includes biographies, links,
the special situation of women in jazz, live jazz venues, etc.
Pioneering
Cartoonists of Color
http://www.clstoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm
Biographies and art of African
American cartoonists. Search by cartoonist, by cartoon title, or by
character name.
Vibe Magazine
Online
http://www.vibe.com
Cool site of contemporary
music, movies, comics, and other entertainment.
World-Wide Black Radio
Stations
http://www.radioblack.com
"A collective guide to
radio stations around the world, with radio formats catering to the Black,
urban, African American market and fans....[of] music formats such as:
gospel, hiphop, r&b, jazz, blues, soul, reggae, Caribbean, Soca,
dancehall, go-go, African, and talk relevant to the Black
community."
Biography:
African
Studies: African Diaspora
Biography
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/afroambiog.html
Considering
biographies of famous and unsung heroes, these pages point users to
excellent information about noted activists, philosophers,
scientists, and writers.
American
Slave
Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
During
the 1930's, former slaves were interviewed and their autobiographies were
recorded. Life during and after slavery is discussed.
Breaking Racial
Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation
Collection
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/index.htm
From the
National Portrait Gallery, an exhibition of depictions of famous African
American men and women; each includes a biography of the sitter.
Encyclopedia
Britannica Guide to Black
History
http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/home.do
Illustrated
with portraits and concluding with bibliographies, myriad biographies of
people from many walks of life, as well as essays on movements, events,
and issues.
Excerpts from
Slave Narratives
http://www.vgskole.net/prosjekt/slavrute/primary.htm
Recollections
of capture, arrival in the New World, conditions, resistance, punishment,
escape, family, religion, and emancipation.
Gale
Group Black
History
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/index.htm
"More
than seventy men and women who've made a difference in the arts,
entertainment, sports, world affairs, human rights and history."
HistoryMakers.com
http://www.thehistorymakers.com
Contributors
to art, business, civic affairs, education, entertainment, law, media,
medicine, military, music, politics, religion, science, sports, and
style.
Profiles of
Great African
Americans
http://www.black-collegian.com/african/aaprofil.shtml
Twenty-three
notable personages, from Benjamin Banneker to Whitney Young.
Profiles of Some
Important 19th Century African
Americans
http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory
Alexander
Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet, Harriet Tubman, Henry
McNeal Turner, John Mercer Langston, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Mary Church
Terrell, Mary Ann Shadd, Nat Turner, Richard Allen, and Sojourner Truth:
why they were great.
Prominent African
Americans
http://www.aawc.com/paa.html
This page is
particularly helpful in locating biographies of politicians and
entertainers.
Marian
Anderson
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/anderson
The
career of the renowned concert singer and civil rights pioneer.
Mary Jane
McLeod
Bethune
http://tinyurl.com/yt8omf
Biography
and of the eminent educator.
W.E.B
Du
Bois
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/collections/dubois/biography.htm
This
succinct biography comes from the University of Massachusetts Library,
which houses a special Du Bois Collection.
Fannie
Lou Hamer Oral History
http://tinyurl.com/yozock
Born
into a family of sharecroppers, Ms. Hamer was a brave civil rights
activist in Mississippi and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party. At the 1964 National Democratic Convention, she
and her party challenged the white Mississippians representing the old
Democratic Party.
Matthew Alexander
Henson
http://www.matthewhenson.com/matt2.htm
A wealth of
material about the life of the legendary African American Arctic and North
Pole explorer, Matthew Henson.
Martin Luther King,
Jr.: Biographical
Outline
http://www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/bio.html
An extensive
article about the life, award, publications, and death of Dr. King, from
The King Center, which Coretta Scott King established in 1968. With
excerpts from Martin Luther King's most famous speeches.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.: NHS Speeches--Dr. King
Speeches
http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/king_speeches.htm
From
"The Negro and the Constitution," 1944 through "I've Been to the
Mountaintop," 1968, the full texts of each speech is provided.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Papers
Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
Speeches,
sermons, articles about his influence, biographical information, and a
timeline about our nation's most celebrated African American leader.
Paul
Robeson Centennial
Celebration
http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/robeson/links.html
All
about New Jersey's Renaissance man, a genius in athletics, drama, law,
music, politics, and social studies.
Jackie
Robinson
http://www.evesmag.com/robinson.htm
A baseball hero, a
political hero. This site tells the story of the evolution of a once
strictly segregated sport.
Still Going
On
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sgo/start.html
An
exhibit dedicated to the music of composer William Grant Still, with
biographical information and writing by Still.
Madam
C.J.
Walker
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwalker.htm
The
story of the life and work of the first African American millionaire.
Ida
B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for
Justice
http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html
Biography,
portrait, and questions to consider about the anti-lynching crusader's
impact on her times and ours.
Carter
G.
Woodson
http://www.chipublib.org/002branches/woodson/woodsonbib.html
From
the Chicago Public Library, a portrait of "the Father of Black History,"
who, in 1915, founded the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life
and History.
Malcolm
X
http://www.cmgworldwide.com/historic/malcolm/home.php
This
"official site" provides a biography, photos, quotations, and more.
Malcolm X
Project at Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp
A
timeline of Malcolm X's life expands to provide additional information.
Business and Career
Information:
African
American Business Link
http://www.aabl.com
A business
directory, employment center, and online shopping are available here.
African American Shopping
Mall
http://www.aasm.com
The African
American Shopping Mall is your place to shop for Afrocentric products. The
Mall was created to give the African American merchant a place to showcase
his or her wares, and to offer products and services of interest to the
African American community. There are 11 districts, over 200
stores.
Black
Collegian Online
http://www.black-collegian.com
Career
information and links for students and professionals.
Black Enterprise
Online
http://www.blackenterprise.com
Homepage of the
premiere monthly journal about African American business and
entrepreneurs; with news, strategies, and trends.
Internet Black
Pages
http://www.blackpages.com
Listings of African
American businesses as well as organizations and churches; also features a
national calendar of events.
Minority Business Development
Agency
http://www.mbda.gov
Programs, youth
entrepreneurship, business tools, Agency centers, Resource and
Capital Locator, contracts, and much more.
Education:
African Centered
Education
http://www.melanet.com/watoto/afrocentric.html
Evaluation
guide for teachers of African American preschoolers, colleges offering
major and minor degrees in African or in African American Studies, and
more.
Association of African
Women Scholars
http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws
From Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the Association of African
Women Scholars promotes excellence in scholarship, networking and
activism.
Black Excel: The
College Help Network
http://www.blackexcel.org
To help
students to navigate the college admissions process are data, essays,
college profiles, scholarship guidance, and a multitude of
links.
Gateway to Historically
Black Colleges and
Universities
http://www.edonline.com/cq/hbcu/c_state.htm
Use
the drop-down menu to link to the homepages of historically Black
institutions of higher learning.
Journal of Blacks in Higher
Education
http://www.jbhe.com
News, views, features, book reviews,
statistics and more make this journal a must-see for anyone involved in
education.
Little Rock Central High 40th
Anniversary
http://www.centralhigh57.org
A chronicle of the
dramatic integration of this high school in 1957. Each of the nine
African American teenagers who graduated from the previously all-white
school has achieved significant personal and professional success.
Racial
Desgregation in Public Education in the U.S.
http://www.nps.gov/chsc/racialdesegregationreport.pdf
You
can read the 136-page text of this history of separate and unequal
schooling.
United Negro College
Fund
http://www.uncf.org/forstudents/index.asp
"A mind is a
terrible thing to waste," and "UNCF is proud to make a difference in the
lives of thousands of students each year, so that they may in turn make a
difference in the lives of millions of others for a lifetime." This is the
pre-eminent African American scholarship program.
Family:
African
Wedding
Guide
http://www.foreverwed.com/ceremonies/African_American
Ideas
for incorporating traditional African rites and symbols into modern
ceremonies.
BlackFamilyNet
http://www.blackfamilynet.net/v2/index.php
Sponsored
by IBM, this site naturally inclines toward technology issues, offering
features such as a "Parents' Guide to the Internet."
Blacklight
http://www.blacklightonline.com
This online journal for gay and
lesbian people of color offers news, feature articles, and reviews with an
international span.
Watoto World
Parental
Guide
http://www.melanet.com/watoto/parents.html
African
American parenting, family values, children's literature; with links to
relevant Internet resources.
Health:
Black Women's
Health
http://www.blackwomenshealth.com/2006/index.php
Alcohol,
arthritis, cancer, cholesterol, contraception, depression, diabetes,
fitness, keloids, lupus, marriage, menopause, nutrition, pap smears,
pregnancy, spirituality, teens--and more.
MedlinePlus:
African American
Health
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/africanamericanhealth.html
Assembled
here are pages relating to nutrition, disease prevention, statistics,
conditions, research, organizations, and particular concerns for children,
teens, men, and women.
National Medical
Association
http://www.NMAnet.org
Especially valuable are the
action alerts, news, physician locator, and information about programs in
clinical trials, immunization, tobacco control, and traffic
safety.
History and
Genealogy:
Abolition and
Slavery
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/slave.htm
From
the U.S. Civil War Center, an array of links about slavery and
emancipation, including sites about Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman, the
Dred Scott Case, Colored Troops during the Civil War, and Juneteenth.
African
American History
Archives
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/index.html
Primary
documents for cultural, economic, political, labor, and social
history.
African American
Holocaust
http://www.maafa.org/index.html
A graphic exhibit of the violence
wrought by the Ku Klux Klan.
African American
Journey
http://www.tinyurl.com/35wuxt
From
the slave trade through the Civil Rights Movement.
African American
Mosaic
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Richly
illustrated and documented survey from the Library of Congress.
The African American
Registry
http://www.aaregistry.com/categories.php
Search by category (e.g., arts,
business, education, sports, religion) and learn about people and events
which changed the world. You can also discover significant issues
for any date, such as what occurred on your birthday.
African American
Warriors
http://www.aawar.net
Information about Black soldiers
throughout the history of the United States.
African
Diaspora
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/linksdiaspora.htm
Although
some sections of this webliography are not updated, the rich detail about
the culture, particularly religious life, that Africans left behind or hid
from Western eyes is brilliant.
Africans in
America: Historical
Documents
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/rb_index_hd.html
This
large compendium of primary sources encompasses famous documents, such as
“Am I Not a Man and a Brother,” “Benjamin Banneker’s Almanac,” and
“Angelina Grimke Weld’s Speech at Pennsylvania Hall”; it also includes
other significant but less well known materials.
Africans in
America: People and
Events
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/rb_index_pe.html
Fine discussions of topics, like the
Middle Passage and the Raid on Harper’s Ferry, accompany biographical
information about significant figures, like Olaudah Equino and Sara
Allen.
Afrigeneas
http://www.afrigeneas.com
"African
Ancestored Genealogy": a how-to guide, state listings, surnames,
information about slaves and slavery, etc.
Afro-American History: The Record of a
Race of Indomitable People Surviving the
Diaspora
http://www.aawc.com/aah.html
African American
genealogy, holidays, and the Tuskegee Airmen are among the covered
subjects.
Amistad Home
Page
http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/amistad
"This
site explores the historical and legal issues and characters involved in
the two disputes arising out of the Amistad revolt."
Atlantic
Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: Image Search
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html
Maps
and pictures show trade routes, trading posts, slave ships, plantation
scenes, domestic servants, recreational activities, family life, military
activities, punishment, emancipation, portraits, etc.
Black
History Month:
Timeline
http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/timeline/index.htm
Selected
dates, from 1600 through the twentieth century, with some links to further
information.
A Black
Panther Party
Chronology
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificapanthers.html
Events
of 1960-2002, with links to transcripts and sound files.
Buffalo Soldiers & Indian
Wars
http://www.buffalosoldier.net
Illustrated with
photographs, this site reveals the hardships and heroism of both sides,
offering overviews of battles and notable Buffalo Soldiers'
biographies.
Dred
Scott Case
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott
"In
1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the
St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that
ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision
declaring that Scott remain a slave....The records displayed in this
exhibit document the Scotts' early struggle to gain their freedom through
litigation and are the only extant records of this significant case as it
was heard in the St. Louis Circuit Court."
Finding
Records of Your African American Ancestors
1870 to
Present
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/36367_AfricanAmer2.asp
This
web site explains how to find records of African American family members
who died after 1870. Instructions are provided for finding names, birth
dates, and birth places of your ancestor's family members; and full names
and marriage information of your ancestor's parents.
Guide
to African American Documentary Resources
http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php?op=viewslink&sid=0&cid=4
“Many
information centers are beginning to reveal and promote materials relating
to African American history that are housed in their respective
facilities. In hopes of enhancing access, dozens of institutions are
digitizing such materials. This website reviews several existing websites
and digitization projects and lists noteworthy digitization projects that
are forthcoming.” A majority, but not all, of the resources are
currently freely available on the Internet.
In Motion: The African
American Migration
Experience
http://inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
Created by New York
Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and
featuring more than 16,500 pages of essays, books, articles, and
manuscripts; 8,300 illustrations; 60 maps and more—this site teaches us
about the slave trade, the Great Migration, and other journeys, including
those of new immigrants from Caribbean (including Haitian) and African
regions.
Internet
Resources for Students of African American
History
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml
Especially
valuable for its primary documents, this website points to a multitude of
web pages. From Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Juneteenth
http://www.juneteenth.com
A
description and history of Juneteenth, a celebration of the emancipation
of slaves in this nation.
National
Civil Rights
Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery/movement.asp
A survey of the history of the
ongoing struggles for civil rights.
National Underground
Railroad Freedom
Center
http://www.freedomcenter.org
The National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center honors both the original conductors
like Harriet Tubman and twentieth century leaders like Rosa Parks. See
especially the Scholar's Corner.
Other
Great Migrations: African Americans in the
West
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/black.html
Biographies,
cowboy history, primary and secondary texts for migrations from the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Powerful
Days: Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml
The
fight against segregation and lack of access to the voting booth by
freedom fighters, with images of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom Riders, Martin
Luther King, and others.
Reconstruction
and Its
Aftermath
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html
"Even
after the Emancipation Proclamation, two more years of war, service by
African American troops, and the defeat of the Confederacy, the nation was
still unprepared to deal with the question of full citizenship for its
newly freed Black population. The Reconstruction implemented by Congress,
which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern
states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into
the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live
together in a nonslave society." This Library of Congress exhibit
illustrates the struggle.
The Revolution's Black
Soldiers
http://americanrevolution.org/blk.html
A lengthy
essay, with links and a bibliography, about the contributions of African
Americans to our country's independence from Britain.
The Rise and Fall
of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/about.html
With essays and images, this PBS
documentary explores segregation in our nation. Among the featured
topics are the influences of Reconstruction, Plessy v. Ferguson, the
Niagara Movement and the NAACP, the film “Birth of a Nation,” and Jackie
Robinson.
Samuel J.
May Anti-Slavery Collection
http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery
These
pamphlets, collected at Cornell University, are available for browsing and
for searching. The arguments presented are powerful and have
applications today, when civil rights goals have yet to be realized..
Schomburg Center for
Research in Black
Culture
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Online
exhibitions look at Harlem's African American community from 1900 to 1940
and the legacy of the Schomburg Center itself. Digitized collections of
images of African Americans from the nineteenth century and of nineteenth
century African American women's writings are also on exhibit.
SNCC
1960-1966
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee concerned itself with issues of violence, the conflict in
Vietnam, white liberalism, Black power, and feminism. Learn here
about its illustrious early years.
Through
the Lens of Time
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/index_cook.php?CISOROOT=/cook
Photographs
of African American life, largely in Virginia, during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, classified by topics, encompassing agriculture,
domestic work, education, recreation, religion, urban life, and
more.
Timelines:
Toward Racial
Equality
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/8Timelines/TimelinesLevelOne.htm
Chronologies
of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; from Harper's
Weekly.
Today in
Black
History
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/Today_B_History.html
Day
by day calendar of events in African American history.
Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade
http://www.cambridge.org/us/features/0521629101/default.htm
This
site "documents the forced migration of an estimated 12 million Africans,"
1519-1867.
Tulsa Race
Riot
http://tulsareparations.org/TRR.htm
The official report of
the destruction of a thriving African American community is accompanied by
analyses in other papers.
USA
Slavery
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm
Slave
accounts, daily life, the slave system, uprisings and other events,
abolition efforts, and related material are discussed in thorough
detail.
Literature:
Academy of
American Poets: Poets of the Harlem
Renaissance
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5657
A
guide to poets of the Harlem Renaissance, with a brief overview and links
to more information.
African
American Literature Book
Club
http://www.aalbc.com
Author profiles, reviews,
resources for writers, and features.
African American
Literature Online
http://www.geocities.com/afam_literature
Decade by decade, annotated reading
lists of autobiographies, essays, novels, and poems of the twentieth
century.
African
American Women Writers of the 19th
Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19
From
the New York Public Library, fiction, poetry, and memoirs of authors,
including Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Frances Harper, and Harriet
Jacobs.
Big
Daddy's Lil' Shelf of Black Men in
Literature
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/big-daddys-books.html
An
anthology of writing by proud Black men, including Amiri Baraka, Countee
Cullen, Dick Gregory, Walter Mosley, Ishmael Reed, and The Last Poets.
Black Caucus of the
American Library
Association
http://www.bcala.org/awards/literary.htm
Former
Newark Public Library Director Dr. Alex Boyd founded these awards for
fiction, first novelists, nonfiction, and outstanding contributions to
African American literature. See the list here.
Brer Rabbit Stories
http://www.americanfolklore.net/brer-rabbit.html
"Brer ("Brother") Rabbit is a trickster character in folktales of African,
African-American, and Native American Culture. Brer Rabbit is the consummate
trickster, who typically matches wits with Brer Fox, whom he always bests."
Several stories are presented here.
Classic
African American
Literature
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.html
Essential
texts by such artists and thinkers as Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglas,
Rita Dove, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Coretta
Scott King
Award
http://tinyurl.com/2ko6hu
Best
books honoring "African American authors and illustrators
for...contributions to children's and young adult literature that promote
understanding and appreciation of the culture and contribution of all
people to the realization of the American Dream."
Electronic
Text Center: African
American
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html
A
library of texts by notable people like Maya Angelou, Charles W. Chesnutt,
W.E.B. DuBois, Nat Turner, and Phillis Wheatley is accompanied by
documents by and about ordinary people who struggled against
injustices.
Mama's
Black Bookcase of African American Women in
Literature
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/mamas-bookcase.html
Selections
by sixteen eminent contemporary authors, including Rita Dove, Audre Lorde,
Sonia Sanchez, and Ntozake Shange.
Mosaic
Books
http://www.mosaicbooks.com
Description of current
African American and Latino fiction and nonfiction.
Quarterly Black
Review
http://www.qbr.com
Views and reviews of
contemporary literature for adults and youngsters.
Synopsis
of Selected Literary
Works
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/literature/index.htm
Outlines and discussions cover thirty-five creations, including Spike
Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Alice Childress’s A Hero Ain’t Nothin’
but a Sandwich, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, and
Angela Davis’s Women, Culture, and Politics.
Voices from the Gaps: Women
Writers of Color: African
American
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg
American Biographies and
literary analysis accompany bibliographies and other relevant information
about each of over fifty authors; a project by students and scholars at
the University of Minnesota.
Web
Resources on African American Writers and Literature
http://www.bluefieldstate.edu/library/afamlinks.htm
A
great compilation from the University of West Virginia, with general
literary sites, digital collections, literary movements, periodicals,
women writers, etc.
Women of Color,
Women of
Words
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/writers.html
Dedicated
to African American women who have gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the
theatre world with their powerful words,” this site examines the
contributions of a score of contemporary female dramatists, including
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ntozake Shange, Pearl Cleage, Anna Deavere Smith, and
Shay Youngblood.
Writing
Black
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit-black.html
Biographies,
bibliographies, and texts and analysis by significant authors ranging from
Maya Angelou to Richard Wright.
Media:
Black Press: Soldiers Without
Swords
http://www.pbs.org/blackpress
A chronicle of
African American journalism, from early writers and newspapers to current
times.
BlackPressUSA
http://www.blackpressusa.com
"BlackPressUSA.com
is the joint web presence of America’s Black community newspapers and the
NNPA News Service - the last national Black Press news wire. It is a
project of the Black Press Institute, a partnership between the National
Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation and Howard
University."
Black
Voices
http://www.blackvoices.com
National and
international news reports updated daily.
Black World
Today
http://www.tbwt.org
Chronicle of Black communities
worldwide, with an emphasis on culture, economics, and politics.
Callaloo
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo
Highly
regarded literary journal, with imaginative literature (fiction, poetry,
drama) as well as criticism and interviews.
EbonyJet.com
http://www.ebonyjet.com
Special
sections for men and for women, recipes, and cover stories from Ebony and Jet
magazines.
Essence
http://www.essence.com/essence
The
magazine that seeks to "celebrate the beauty, spirit and power of
African American women."
The
Final Call
http://www.finalcall.com
The newspaper of The Nation
of Islam: national and international news, editorials, and religious
features.
Philadelphia
Tribune
http://www.phila-tribune.com
"The nation's oldest
newspaper speaking to the African American community." Appears
weekly.
New Jersey
history:
Afro-Americans
in New
Jersey
http://tinyurl.com/2duebt
This
extensive history, by Giles R. Wright, of the New Jersey Historical
Commission, considers the history and culture of African Americans from
colonial times through the 1980’s.
Containment:
The Architecture of the 1967 Newark
Riots
http://tinyurl.com/5fmmd
Sean
Patrick Dockray's paper arguing that uprisings were triggered "when a
series of institutions defined certain actions as a 'riot' and launched a
complex struggle over the definition of space."
Dunkerhook: A Slave
Community?
http://www.lutins.org/dunkerh.html
Free African
Americans in Bergen County, New Jersey built this community before the
U.S. Revolution.
Small Towns,
Black Lives
http://blacktowns.org
A documentary containing
photographs, descriptions, documents, and video about African American
settlements in the southern New Jersey towns of Chesilhurst, Morris Beach,
Port Republic, Springtown, Swedesboro, and Whitesboro.
Science and mathematics:
The Faces of
Science: African Americans in the
Sciences
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
Biographies
of African American women and men who have made contributions to our
knowledge and use of mathematics, science, engineering, and medicine;
including African American inventors.
Mathematicians of the African
Diaspora
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad
A survey that examines
the ancients in Africa, Black women in mathematics, computer science, and
individual achievers.
Society, Race, and
Resistance:
Affirmative Action and Diversity
Page
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu
Presenting a variety of
perspectives, this thought-provoking site offers "articles, theoretical
analyses, policy documents, current legislative updates, and an annotated
bibliography...."
African Americans
and the Age of
Information
http://www.geocities.com/afritech_2000
An
essay by Bruce Cosby, Professor, Social Science Department, Erie Community
College from his book, Western Technology and the African American
Predicament, a rallying cry for African Americans to learn new skills and
"to understand the political economy and history of information
technologies (indeed, all technologies)."
African American
Labor History
Links
http://www.afscme.org/publications/12440.cfm
The American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has compiled a
timeline and materials about such efforts as the Coalition of Black Trade
Unionists, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, and organizing of
the Pullman Porters. Essays, papers, biographies, and speeches
enrich this resource.
Congress of Racial
Equality
http://www.core-online.org
Advocating that "all
people are created equal," CORE seeks "to unearth covert, more subtle and
unsuspecting forms of racism and discrimination."
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Online
http://www.cbcfinc.org
Programs, policy, news, and views
about current events.
Frontline:
the Two Nations of Black America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race
Especially
exciting for its interviews with Julian Bond, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela
Davis, Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, and others -- this site also delineates
economics with charts, graphs, and analysis.
History of Civil Rights
Laws
http://www.withylaw.com/history.htm
A brief listing of U.S.
documents and legislation.
How Race Is
Lived in America
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/race
The
celebrated New York Times series on how, in spite of many years of
civil rights efforts, African Americans still do not enjoy equality.
Law, media, politics, sports, youth culture, and other topics are explored
with sensitivity.
Intelligence Project of
the Southern Poverty Law
Center
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intpro.jsp
Tracking
by the Southern Poverty Law Center of the activities of hate groups and
militia.
National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People
http://www.naacp.org
Home page of the oldest
organization advocating African American progress.
National Bar
Association
http://www.nationalbar.org/welcome.shtml
Since 1925, this
organization of African American lawyers has been struggling for
justice.
National Urban
League
http://www.nul.org
Fighting for economic, social,
and educational rights.
100
Black Men of America, Inc.
http://www.100blackmen.org
With the
goal of improving quality of life, and enhancing educational and economic
opportunities for African Americans, this Web site provides information on
the history, local chapters, and upcoming events of 100 Black
Men.
Racial
Equality
http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/index.html
Discussion
of issues related to housing, voting, racial profiling, affirmative
action, the death penalty, educational equity, etc.
Reparations
for African American
Slavery
http://tinyurl.com/btk5l
Background
and arguments for and against this controversial issue.
Sociology of Race and
Ethnicity
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/race.html
Probing
analysis and enhancing links for the study of race and racism in the
United States.
U.S. Census
Bureau Facts on the Black / African American
Population
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/NEWafamML1.html
Social
and economic characteristics of the African American community, generated
by the 2000 Census count.
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