Celebrating Black History on the Web

• Afro-American Almanac "AFRO-American Almanac ® provides an on-line study of the origin of the African in America." Includes online trivia quizzes, commentary, literary texts, folk tales, and feature articles. With links to related sites.
• Black Facts Online An almanac of Black history which is searchable by date or word. A search for the word "first" retrieved 95 screens of information on Black "firsts"..
• Black History Month A feature from the Information Please Almanac. Includes "a collection of features, biographies of notable African Americans, reference links, a Civil Rights Timeline, black history quizzes, and a crossword puzzle."

• All Music Guide includes biography and discography for individual performers and pages on musical genres, including: Reggae, Rap, Jazz and Gospel. Requires free registration.
• Baseball and Jackie Robinson an online history of racial segregation of baseball--focusing on the achievements of Jackie Robinson.
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences Biographies with illustrations and bibliography.
• Thompson Gale's Black History Month page includes biographies, timeline, quizzes, and brief essays on Black authors.
• Internet Movie Database includes a search feature by subject heading. Many entries for performers and crew have a biography available. See also All Movie Guide for biographies and filmographies of individual performers.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project This Stanford site includes a biography of Dr. King, a searchable bibliography of writings about him, a chronology, and a large collection of his personal papers online.
• Negro League Baseball Online Includes overview, teams, and biographies of individual players. Includes links to related resources.

• American Factfinder--Results from the 2000 Census.
• The Black Population in the U.S.: Topics covered include Geographic Distribution, Marital Status, Educational Attainment, Family and Household Type, Labor Force Status, Occupational Distribution, Earnings, Family Income, and Poverty Status.
• Facts on the Black or African American Population contains links to sources of information on characteristics such as age, education, occupation, voting, and employment.
• Digital Map of the United States by Professor William Bowen maps selected 1990 population variables (ancestry, race, income, poverty, adult educational attainment, and citizenship). Maps include country boundaries.
• Historic Census Information, 1790-1860 Detailed census data by state and county. Includes total, white, free African American, and slave populations, churches, education and literacy, vital statistics, and economic data.
• Demographics related to Race and Ethnicity subject guide from the University of Colorado.

• Africans in America Online companion to the PBS series. Includes biographies, primary source materials, interviews, and a teacher's guide.
• Historical Text Archive this is a collection of links on African-American resources, it also contains links to free e-books and articles.
• Amistad:
• The Amistad Case (National Archives and Records Administration) includes overview, primary materials, learning activities.
• Exploring Amistad includes primary and secondary materials on the case.
• Amistad case: 'Outright Plagiarism' or 'Who Owns History?' includes court materials, background and other information on both the current plagiarism and the original trial and appeal to the Supreme Court.
• Avalon Project from Yale Law School includes digitized versions of significant historic texts from 17th-20th centuries. Nineteenth century materials include U.S. Statutes on Fugitive Slaves and Slavery.
• Census Schedules and Black Genealogical Research: One Family's Experience. Example of census schedule research.
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Systems (CWSSS) When completed, the CWSSS will include brief entries for all service personnel, North and South, who served in the Civil War. Search by Soldiers, Sailors, Regiments, Prisoners, Cemeteries, Battlefields, and Medals of Honor. The CWSSS site was launched with the U.S. Colored Troops database, but has expanded to include information on other regiments. In addition, the site provides brief battle summaries by state or campaign, prison records for Andersonville and Fort McHenry, cemetery records for Poplar Grove National Cemetery (Petersburg NB).
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet -- African-American. Thinking about your family history and where to begin? Have a look at these links.
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project Excerpts from a multi-volume work which includes transcriptions of materials from the National Archives. "The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of that revolution by depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slave holders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners. "
• Freedmen's Bureau Online Includes transcriptions of "Marriage records, assaults and murders of Freedmen, work contracts, indentures of orphaned Freedmen, reports of conditions in the south following the end of the civil war."
• Prologue articles on African American History from the National Archives.
• Freedom's Journal "the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829."
• Lest We Forget African-American History, Culture and Current Events. The site includes original material and links to related sites.
• Library of Congress Country Studies The Country Studies provide current country information. Each country study includes a history of both the country and its relations with other countries. Has information on slave trade and other possible topics of interest.
• Making of America scanned and searchable versions of publications with imprints from 1850-1988 which document American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction with imprints between 1850 - 1877. Many of the materials deal with slavery and the abolition movement.
• Mapping History: The Darkwing Atlas Project includes interactive and static maps on topics in European, North African, Middle Eastern, and North American history.
• Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870 this a collection of maps from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa.
• Power Links links to history resources from the creator of Black Quest: The Griot, a CD-ROM on the history of African Americans.
• Roster of U.S. Colored Troops, 1861-1865 CU this CD-ROM lists the names, rank and division of the African-American Troops who served during the U.S. Civil War. This resource is only available at computers in the Government Publication Library.
• Valley of the Shadow an archive of information which documents two communities during the American Civil War. This site includes transcriptions of newspaper articles, diaries, church, military, and public records. Also includes maps and images. The communities are Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia---separated by the Mason-Dixon Line.
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement This page from the National Park Service National Register of Historic Places examines the historic sites of the Civil Rights Movement. Includes overview, maps, and background information for each site.

• Historic Supreme Court Decisions by Topic Choose "Affirmative Action", "Civil Rights", "Slavery", "Segregation" and other topics to read the most important Supreme Court decisions.
• Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.

• African-American Experience An electronic text collection from the Electronic Text Collection at the University of Virginia Library. Includes electronic texts prepared from manuscripts and published works. Features writings of Douglass, DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and others.
• Bartleby.com contains biographies and online editions of numerous authors including: W.E.B. DuBois, Harlem Renaissance Poets, and Booker T. Washington.
• Digital Schomberg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century A selection of 52 full text works from the collections of the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Another online feature includes Images of African Americans from the 19th Century.
• Douglass--Archives of American Address is "Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents." This resource contains oratory from significant speakers, from Frederick Douglas to Bill Clinton.
• eServer, which publishes humanities texts online, has a section on Race and Ethnicity. The page includes reference materials, essays and other works addressing race and ethnicity in America.
• Frederick Douglas Papers this is a digital collection of the papers written by and to Frederick Douglas at the Library of Congress.
• Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress is a collection of ten plays that were deposited at the Library of Congress, most of which remained unpublished and unproduced until their discovery in 1997.
• Quarterly Black Review of Books includes online reviews of fiction, poetry, children's books, and nonfiction.

• Aboard the Underground Railroad This site operated by the National Parks Service includes a virtual tour of sites. With pictures and descriptions of 21 sites on the National Register of Historic Places.
• African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 "This selection of manuscript and printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes."
• African-American Odyssey "Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections."
• African American Mosaic A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture.
• African-American Pamphlet Collect, 1822-1909 Library of Congress exhibit of pamphlets"by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics."
• African-American Perspectives A collection of pamphlets from the collections of the Library of Congress which documents African American history and culture.
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 this Library of Congress exhibit draws on sheet music from " the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."
• Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier An exhibit from the International Museum of the Horse which focuses on the African-American 9th and 10th cavalry regiments known as the "Buffalo Soldiers". These two regiments constituted about twenty percent of the cavalry forces on the western frontier until about 1890.
• Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection "at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance."
• The Church in the Southern Black Community this compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life.
• George Washington and Slavery an online exhibit from Mt. Vernon includes pictures of the slave quarters, a census of slaves, and other information.
• Museum of Afro American History Features a number of online exhibits on the Million Man march, Scottsboro Boys, Black Panther Party, African American participation in World War II, Tuskegee Airmen, and other topics.

• African American Women: On-line Archival Collections Includes scanned image and text versions of slave letters and a memoir of the child of slaves.
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology. A University of Virginia project that uses WPA (Works Progress Administration) material.
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
• Documenting the American South Includes slave narratives, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and other primary historical material.
• First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 this exhibit contains diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives.
• Voices from the Days of Slavery this audio collection contains interviews with twenty-three people discussing how " they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom."