Introduction
The following resources come from all over the Internet. Some are provided by companies like CNN Interactive while others are the products of university scholars or amateurs. Use these sites as the raw material for your own study of African-American history and issues. Remember to read critically and look for hidden agendas, bias, or errors that might creep into the Web pages. If you'd like a more guided learning experience, go to the main Black History site.

Black History Month

• Black History Month from Infoplease
• Biography - Black History Month from Biography.com on A&E
• History Channel's Black History Month
• Black History Month from CNN
• Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) from the Chicago Public Library
• Dr. Carter G. Woodson: Great African Statesman from the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
• Issues in Depth: Black History Month from The New York Times Learning Network

Slavery and African American History

• Colonization: The Beginnings of the American Colonization Society
• Abolition: Abolition as a Social Movement
• Migration: Statistical & Geographical Patterns
• The WPA: Cavalcade of the American Negro & Authors and the Federal Writers' Project
• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

Other Slavery Resources

• Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery from PBS Online
• Sojourner Truth
• Sojourner Truth brief bio and links from the Lakewood Public Library
• Francis Henderson describes living conditions under slavery (1856)
• James Martin remembers a slave auction (1937)
• More Slave Narratives
• The Confessions of Nat Turner Website
• The Levi Jordan Plantation
• The Underground Railroad from National Geographic
• The Underground Railroad from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

African American & "Buffalo" Soldiers

• Sergeant Henry Parker
• Cathay Williams, Female Buffalo Soldier
• 1866: Congress Creates the First Peace Time African-American Units
• Telling what daily life was like for the "colored cavalry."
• The 54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I
• Buffalo Soldier, a song by Bob Marley

• Civil Rights Movement Veterans, "This website is of, by, and for Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s."
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement
• Powerful Days in Black and White, images by Charles Moore (Eastman Kodak) Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement, from CNN
• Examples of Hate Crimes Against African Americans, from civilrights.org
• The Movement, background from the Seattle Times includes Fighting for Fairness and Photo Gallery
• Six Dead After Church Bombing, Washington Post
• The Meredith Mississippi March-June 1966, a set of sixteen photos by Jo Freeman
• Touchstone, an interactive visit to the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama from National Geographic

• Aerial shot of the Mall from Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University
• The Million Man March Pledge
• The Nation of Islam's "World's Day of Atonement"
• CNN article: "An Emotional Celebration for Thousands of Black Men"
• CNN article: "Celebrities Speak out at the Million Man March"
• Transcript of Louis Farrakhan's speech
• CNN Article on the march and Louis Farrakhan

African-American Leaders

• The Internet African American History Challenge ©, from Bright Moments
• The Life of Frederick Douglass, by Sandra Thomas
• Marcus Garvey, a Research Project of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center
• W. E. B. DuBois, from the W. E. B. Dubois Learning Center
• Jackie Robinson, by Henry Aaron
• Marian Anderson, from Afrocentric Voices
• Martin Luther King, Jr., from the Seattle Times
• Martin Luther King Online
• Citizen King from PBS
• The Official Web Site of Malcolm X
• Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther, a Frontline Interview
• Nelson Mandela, from the African National Congress
• Biographies of great African-American icons from Biography.com
• Profiles of Great African Americans You Should Know, from the Black Collegian Contemporary African-American History Makers, by Sonya Stinson
• Celebrating African American History, interviews with and about prominent African Americans from Jerry Jazz Musician

In Their Own Words

• Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"
• Marcus Garvey: "The Tragedy of White Injustice"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. :"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. :"I have a Dream"
• Senator Robert Kennedy: On Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Life and Death
• Malcolm X: Interview with Alex Haley (in PDF format)
• President Bill Clinton: Speech on Race Relations
• The Portsmouth, New Hampshire Black Elders, highlights from an oral history project

Issues in the News

Church Burnings

• Rebuilding Burned Churches: Black Church Fires
• Response to Hate-Group Violence
• Clinton Sounds Call to Stop Church Burnings, from CNN - June 8th, 1996

• One Internet, Two Nations, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• The Importance Of Bridging The Digital Divide, from the Clinton White House
• The Christian Science Monitor's Black History Pages
• Wounds from L.A. Riots Still Sting, from CNN Interactive
• The O.J. Simpson Main Page, from CNN Interactive
• Tupac Shakur, from Wikipedia
• Photos of African-American Cowboys, by Ron Tarver
• Blues Highway Photo Gallery from National Geographic

Poetry

• Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers"
• Rita Dove: "Lady Freedom Among Us"
• Maya Angelou: "On the Pulse of the Morning"
• Etheridge Knight: "The Idea of Ancestry"
• Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance

Institutional Changes

• Congressional Black Caucus
• United Nations Statement on Slavery (7 Sep 1956)
• United Nations Statement on Minimum Age for Child Labor (26 Jun 73)

General Resources

• American Legacy Magazine - Celebrating African-American Culture and History
• Race Relations, from About.com
• MelaNet "The UnCut Black Experience" (includes the Kwanzaa Information Center)
• Black Press USA Network provided by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Inc.
• Fathom Knowledge Network
• African American World
• Ontario Black History Society
• History and Culture from Nationalgeographic.com
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Footsteps Magazine
• Chasing the Dream: Exploring Black History from CNN
• The Image of Black: Discovering the Hidden History
• The African American Registry

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