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 African Americans 

• African American World
  An exploration of African American culture and history, from PBS.
• American Black Journal
  "Interviews, round-table discussions, field-produced features and artistic performances featuring African Americans, many of who are among the nation's most recognized and controversial figures, and provides the visual and audio context of key debates and discussions surrounding African American history, culture, and politics."
• Awesome Storie: The Help
  A tie-in for the book and movie features articles and video clips about the civil rights era.
• Biographies of Famous African Americans
  Short biographies on dozens of African Americans, from InfoPlease.com.
• The Ebony Network
  "News and Information for Black Americans."
• Martin Luther King
  Links about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. may be found on our Civil Rights Era page.
• Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History
  Resources in "African, African American, and African Diaspora history and culture. Over 600 sites are available in the searchable guide which is also browseable by subjects."
• Wikipedia: Portal: African Amricans
  Gathering of Wikipedia articles about African Amrican history and culture.

 African American History 

• AAWC: African American History
  A set of annotated links to pages about African Amrican history.
• African American History and Heritage Site
  "Resources For Black History Month, Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Day, Juneteenth and all year 'round." Includes an African American Studies Toolkit with annotated links for students and teachers.
• African American History Month
  "The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities ... join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society."
• African American Odyssey
  An American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress. Other collections include: African Voices, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, Born in Slavery (narratives), From Slavery to Civil Rights, Slaves and the Courts.
• African American World
  "From Sojourner Truth to Jacob Lawrence, discover the courage and talent that shaped the African American experience." From PBS.
• Africans in America (1450-1865)
  "America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide."
• Banished
  "From the 1860s to the 1920s, towns across the U.S. violently expelled African American residents. Today, these communities remain virtually all white." A look at racial cleansing in America from the PBS show 'Independent Lens'.
• Black Eurpoeans
  "Popular versions of history have all too often airbrushed out the contribution of non-Europeans to Western arts and sciences. ...The figures featured in Black Europeans – Alexander Pushkin, Alexandre Dumas, George Polgreen Bridgetower, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and John Archer – all have a mixed European and African ancestry."
• Black Facts Online
  "Black Facts Online is the world's largest FREE online database of Black History information.".
• Black History Month
  Free lessons and resources from the Constitutional Rights Foundation.
• Black History Month
  Free resources for students and teachers from Gale Research.
• Black History Month
  History and biography from InfoPlease.com.
• The Black Past
  "TheBlackPast.org, an online reference center housed at the University of Washington, Seattle, makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet." Includes online encyclopedia, speeches, documents, digital archives, and more.
• Celebrating Black History 365
  "Links that will enrich your knowledge of the past and present selfless contributions made by just a FEW of our MANY great African Americans. As you read the wealth of information on this page, think about how our world would be today without the selfless contributions and what we have learned from the good and the bad. Also, recognize the unbending focus and intensity of their efforts despite repeated rejections and unfulfilled expectations."
• Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History
  "Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History represents an effort to trace the African American experience and achievements in the United States and elsewhere."
• Famous Firsts by African Americans
  "The first African-American billionaire, combat pilot, Nobel Prize winner, poet laureate, Oscar winner, and Miss America" as well as many others.
• The History of Jim Crow
  "Explore the complex African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s through the 1950s."
• The History Makers
  "Educational institution committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories."
• Honoring the Tuskegee Airmen Today
  An article with links from the Britannica blog.
• Interactive Timeline: African American History
  "Click through this interactive timeline to view some of the key people and major events that have shaped African American history in the more than 230 years before Barack Obama becomes the nation's first African American president."
• Legends of Tuskegee
  Exhibit about the famous Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.
• LEST WE FORGET
  "The history, culture, preservation efforts, and current events of African-Americans, other ethnic, non-ethnic groups and individuals" with plenty of links and a special focus on military history.
• Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
  Created by the NY Public Library and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture "To mark the United Nations International Year to Commenorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (2004). Requires Flash.
• Say Brother
  "Say Brother, now known as Basic Black, is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for, and about African Americans. The archival collection, consisting primarily of broadcast programs and original footage, dates between 1968 and 1982."
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  A selection of online exhibits and digitized primary sources from the New York Public Library.
• The Underground Railroad
  Illustrated feature from National Geographic.

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