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African-American History and Culture
by the Library of Congress
Underground Railroad Archeological Initiative
The Underground Railroad Archeological Initiative is being coordinated in partnership with government, scholarly,
avocational, and historic preservation communities. This project is a multi-year effort to identify, interpret and protect nationally significant archeological properties associated with the Underground Railroad.
Our Shared History: African American Heritage
- The Underground Railroad
This site is the National Park Service home page for the five exhibit links listed below:
African-American Mosaic
An exhibit from the Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
The Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress presents 397 pamphlets, published from 1824 through 1909, 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.
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
This Special Presentation exhibition showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. It highlights what is on view in this major black history exhibition, and includes a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings.
Cultural Resource Management
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This publication electronically distributes articles that
outline important developments in the preservation and expansion of African American history and culture.
African American Medal of Honor Recipients
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Civil War Soldiers and
Sailors System (CWWS)
A Historical Context for the African American Military Experience
African Americans in the U.S. Navy
International Information's Gateway
to African American History
Census Bureau Facts for Features
African and African American Resources at the
Smithsonian
Selected Tables from "The Black Population in the United States : March 1994 and 1993"
Historically Black Colleges &
Universities (HBCUs)
The American Image, John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago
American
Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - Index to Narratives
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Global Mappings: A Political
Atlas of African Disapora
The National Geographic Online presents The Underground Railroad
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PBS presents Africans in America: Historical Documents
Facts of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Mathematicians of African
Diaspora
Breaking the Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon
Foundation Collection
Archives of African American Music and
Culture
PBS presents A. Philip Randolph : For Jobs
& Freedom
Without Sanctuary:
Postcards of Lynchings in America
The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)
Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
African
American Resources
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This site provides a search database of soldiers, sailors, regiments,
cemeteries, battles,
prisoners and medals of honor national parks. Coordinated by the National Park Service, the CWSS Project was sponsored by
the African American Civil War Memorial,
Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, Indiana), George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War,
Howard University (African American Civil War Sailors Project), National Archives, United Daughters of the Confederacy,
and the U.S. Army Military History Institute.
Sponsored by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories
(USACERL), the purpose of this report is to recognize and highlight the contributions of African Americans to the
military history of the United States. This is accomplished by providing a historic context on the
African American military experience for use by Department of Defense (D
This site includes links to information about Amistad and the U.S. Navy,
Ship's Cook Doris "Dorie" Miller: Biography of an African American Sailor,
Port Chicago Naval Magazine Explosion, 17 July 1944,
Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear, and photographs.
Established to assist international audiences in acquiring information on the rich
contributions of African-Americans to the culture and history of the United States, this site
offers links to key internet sites covering art and culture; history; U.S. Embassies'
celebrations; bibliographies; publications; speeches, fact sheets and remarks; articles and stamps.
This site contains selected tables and graphs reflecting the statistical comparisons available
from census data and information regarding the African-American population of the
United States. Table data included are general population; education; marital, family
and household; economic; employment and poverty.
HBCUs are postsecondary academic institutions founded before 1964 whose educational
mission has historically been the education of Black Americans. Located primarily in
the Southeastern United States, there are now about 120 HBCUs in existence, a mix of
community and junior colleges, four-year colleges and universities, and public and
private institutions. It is presented by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
(ERIC/CUE) and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Education
Research and Improvement.
From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H.
White, a 28-year-old photographer with the Chicago Daily News at that time, worked for
the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city's African
American community. His photographs portray the difficult circumstances faced by
many of Chicago's African American residents in the early 1970s, but they also
catch the "spirit, love, zeal, pride, and hopes of the community." This site is
a part of
the National Archives Exhibit Hall.
Non-Governmental Online Resources
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
This eBook of Douglass' personal escape narrative is offered by the University of Rochester and copyright restrictions should be recognized.
As part of the American Hypertext Workshop at the University of Virginia during Summer 1996, this web site provides an opportunity to read and hear slave narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).
This interactive site was created to offer a virtual archive
housing scholarly entries that demonstrate the linkages
between transnational black politics, social movements
and world historical events of the twentieth century.
Initiated in 1998 with funds from the Ford Foundation,
it is the first undertaking of the Institute of Diasporic
Studies at Northwestern University.
This is an interactive site to give users an idea of what a slave's experience might be like when trying to escape. You will have to make life and death decisions.
Resource Bank Index of personal narratives, portraits, petitions and other legal documents during the years of African bondage.
This site provides profiles of African Americans in science. Indexed alphabetically and by profession.
William E. Harmon (1862-1928)established the Harmon Foundation in New York City to recognize African American
achievements in the fine arts. Forty-one of the original fifty portraits in the original 1944
exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution were given to the National Portrait Gallery by the Harmon Foundation. This exhibition is drawn
from that gift.
Launched by Indiana University in 1991, this site is a repository of materials covering
various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.
PBS presents JAZZ : A History of American Music
Directed by Ken Burns, this documentary,
JAZZ, is a story about race and race relations and prejudice, about
minstrelsy and Jim Crow, lynchings and civil rights. JAZZ explores the uniquely
American paradox that our greatest musical art form was created by those who have
had the peculiar experience of not being free in our supposedly free land.
African-Americans in general, and black jazz musicians in particular, carry a
complicated message to the rest of us, a genetic memory of our great promise
and our great failing . . .
This documentary is a 90-minute film biography about labor activist and civil rights pioneer, Asa Philip Randolph.
It reveals the difficulties that
African Americans faced when forming unions to gain equality in employment practices.
"Let the nation and the world know the meaning of our numbers. We
are not a pressure group; we are not an organization or a group of
organizations; we are not a mob. We are the advance guard of a
massive moral revolution for jobs and freedom. . . ." Quoted from his
Speech at the 1963 March on Washington
James Allen organized and helped edit this website of photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout
America. These photos and postcards speak to the hatred and evilness that was prevalent and a by-product of justified slavery.
These photographs have been published as a book "Without Sanctuary" by Twin Palms Publishers and are on display at the New
York Historical Society.
This is the official MLK historical site. It includes links to the papers project at Stanford.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research
library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources
documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
African American Literature Links
The Multicultural Pavilion strives to provide resources for educators to explore and discuss multicultural education;
to facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness and development; and to provide forums for
educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education.
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