Internet Sources in African American Studies

	National Sources
	Directories
	Manuscripts
	Other
	State Sources
	Local Sources
	UNA Sites

National Sources

Directories

About.com: African-American Culture:    afroamculture.miningco.com/mlibrary.htm

African-American Studies, University of Pennsylvania Library:
www.library.upenn.edu/resources/subject/interdiscipline/
african-american/african-american.html

African American Web Connection: www.aawc.com

Black Quest Power Resource Links: blackquest.com/link.htm

Influential African Americans of the 20th Century: www.pathfinder.com/photo/essay/african/home.htm

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History: United States: Ethnic Studies:    www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/ethnic.html

Manuscripts and Other Primary Sources

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology: xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries:  metalab.unc.edu/docsouth

John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation,  Duke University: scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/franklin

Library of Congress:

    African-American History and Culture:
    lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/african.html

    The African-American Mosaic:
    lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

    African American Odyssey:
    memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html

    African American Perspectives:
    memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

National Archives and Records Administration: Primary Sources and Activities:

    The Amistad Case:
    www.nara.gov/education/teaching/amistad/home.html

    The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War:
    www.nara.gov/education/teaching/usct/home.html

    Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate:
    www.nara.gov/education/teaching/robinson/robmain.html

Race and Place: African American Community Histories, University of Virginia: www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library: www.nypl.org/research/sc

Other National Sites

Africans in America, Public Broadcasting System: www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia

AFRO-America@: The Black History Museum: www.afroam.org/history

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society: www.rootsweb.com/~mdaahgs

Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History: www.artnoir.com/asalh

Brief Chronology of African American Literature, San Antonio College: www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences: http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html

Great African American Inventors and Engineers, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: www.uwm.edu/StudentOrg/NSBE/bie.html

John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, Cornell University:    www.library.cornell.edu/africana

National Civil Rights Museum: http://216.157.9.6/civilrights/

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center:     www.undergroundrailroad.org/

Black History Month Quiz:  http://www.galegroup.com/freresrc/blkhstry/quiz/quiz1.htm 

Stamp on Black History: http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Stamps.htm

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement:
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/index.htm

State Sources

Alabama Black Heritage Council: www.preserveala.org/abhc.html

Alabama Department of Archives & History:

    Archives Adventures: Test Your African-American Alabama History
    Knowledge: www.archives.state.al.us/activity/actvty13.html

    From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Era: Records About the African American
    Experience in Alabama:
    www.archives.state.al.us/afro/afro.html

     Using Primary Sources in the Classroom:
     www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/psources.shtml

America's Dirty Little Secret: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment:
www.aabhs.org/tusk.htm

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: bcri.bham.al.us

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University:    www.stanford.edu/group/King

The Montgomery Bus Boycott: www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3515/montg.html

The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys:    www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

Southern Poverty Law Center: www.splcenter.org

The Troy State University Montgomery Rosa Parks Library and Museum:   www.tsum.edu/museum

The Tuskegee Airmen: www.afroam.org/history/tusk/tuskmain.html

Local Sources

Oscar Stanton De Priest: www.usbol.com/ctjournal/ODePriestbio.html

W. C. Handy Festival: www.wchandyfest.com

The History of Alabama A&M University: www.aamu.edu/html/history.html

Dr. Mae Jemison: www.aabhs.org/Jemison.html

Samuel R. Lowery: www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/lowery.htm

Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore:
www.civilrightsphotos.com

Jesse Owens: www.cmgww.com/sports/owens

James Thomas Rapier, United States Representative: www.usbol.com/ctjournal/JTRapierbio.html

Willie Ruff: www.willieruff.com

Percy Sledge: www.alamhof.org/sledgep.htm

UNA Sites

UNA Libraries Internet Resources Collection: African American History:
www2.una.edu/library/sa13/amhistory.htm

Phillip Oliver:

Dorothy Dandridge, a life unfulfilled:  home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/dandridge.html

W. C. Handy, "Father of the Blues": www2.una.edu/library/handy/index.html

Avon Edward Foote:

Jesse Owens Memorial Olympic Site: chotank.com/jesseowens.html

Kenneth and Marilyn Johnson:       

 Peter Still: http://home.hiwaay.net/~krjohn/peter.htm

Page created by: Marilyn Johnson and Dr. Kenneth Johnson
Last revision 06/02