Web Sites
Aboard the Underground Railroad
African American Civil War Memorial
The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide
for the Study of Black History & Culture
African American Labor History Links
Links to Web sites, journal articles, book excerpts, and film citations
and reviews about the history of African Americans in
the labor union movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. and
the 1968 Memphis Sanitation
Workers' Strike at which he was assassinated, and African
American history in general.
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected
from the Collections of Brown University
Over 1,300 pieces of music associated with antebellum black face minstrelsy,
the abolitionist movement, the Civil War, and on into the twentieth century.
Composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe,
and Will Marion Cook. "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." From
the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
African Ceremonies: Photographs of Sacred
Rituals in Tribal Cultures
"Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher's lifelong commitment to photographing the vanishing rituals and customs of tribal
African cultures culminates in their monumental masterwork, African Ceremonies." This site features a gallery of photos
from the book, as well as information about related African charities and foundations "developed by Carol Beckwith and
Angela Fisher to assist nomadic pastoral peoples during times of drought" and to fund research about African
ceremonies.
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Civil Rights digital document collection (PDF file)
The U.S. Government Printing Office has teamed up with the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland School of Law to provide the American public a website of authentic Civil Rights historical publications. The Thurgood Marshall Law Library, a GPO federal depository library, has been scanning hundreds of historical Civil Rights publications to make this digital collection possible. The documents are provided by USCCR....
US Government Printing Office, Jan .12
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American
Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
A collection of about four hundred pamphlets "by African-American authors
and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation,
Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts
and public orations
to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors
represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church
Terrell,
and Booker T. Washington." From the American Memory Project of the Library
of Congress.
"I Will Be Heard!"
Abolitionism in America
A well-organized, content-rich site with a wide range
of authoritative information. Includes profiles of prominent
abolitionists, slave narratives, background on the
Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, critical
resources on Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"and much
more. From Cornell University, Division of Rare
& Manuscript Collections.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
negrospirituals.com
This site presents a brief narrative of the development of spirituals
sung by blacks in the United States along with
information about singers, songs, and composers. It includes
a searchable and browsable list of songs with lyrics. Also
includes related links.
River Road African-American Museum
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