A Select Webliography
GENERAL
About.com: African American History - http://afroamhistory.about.com/
Provides all kinds of historical information on Black history including primary
texts of famous African American leaders, court cases, and state black codes.
African American Odyssey - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
This web site includes digital copies of some of the items from the Library of
Congress’s exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship along
with their histories. The site gives an overview of African American history from slavery to
civil rights.
Black History Month (History.com) - http://www.history.com/minisites/blackhistory
This History channel web site contains the audio of speeches and video clips of
important events and people.
Black History Month (Infoplease.com) - http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
This web site contains information on a variety of historical and contemporary
black issues.
Celebrating Our Black History - http://www.biography.com/blackhistory
Produced by biography.com this web site contains mostly biographical
information on many African American figures.
SLAVERY
Aboard the Underground Railroad - http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/underground/
At this site descriptions and photographs are provided for 64 historic places that
were used to help slaves escape bondage. The places are listed in the National Park
Service's National Register of Historic Places.
Africans in America - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This site chronicles the history of slavery in America in four parts.
Born in Slavery - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
This site contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 blackand-white photographs of former slaves that were collected in the 1930s by the Federal
Writers’ project.
Slavery in the United States - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm
Includes slave accounts, events, descriptions of slave’s life, the slavery system,
and much more.
BUFFALO SOLDIER
Buffalo Soldier National Museum - http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/index.html
This site contains a links to the history of the Buffalo Soldier as well as videos.
Vermont Buffalo Soldier - http://www.uvm.edu/~vtbufalo/
This site includes a history of the Buffalo Soldiers’ experience in Vermont as well
as pictures of some of the soldiers who served there.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Brief Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement (1954 -1965) –
http://www.ags.uci.edu/~skaufman/teaching/win2001ch4.htm
Civil Rights Documentation Project - http://www.usm.edu/crdp/index.html
This project of the University of Mississippi provides transcripts and some audio
files of the oral histories.
Voices of Civil Rights - http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html
The AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library
of Congress have combined their efforts to collect and preserve personal accounts of the
Civil Rights Movement and related historical information.
National Civil Rights Museum - http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
This site offers online exhibits and a gallery of photographs of the struggle for
civil rights as well as oral histories and videos of the period.
FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute –
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/index.htm
On this site, many of Dr. King’s papers are found in full text as well as
biographical information.
MLK Online - http://www.mlkonline.net/
Included on this webpage are links to King’s speeches, quotes, photos, videos ,
and biographical information.
Malcolm X
The Official Web Site of Malcolm X -http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/index.htm
This site contains biographical information, photos, quotes, and much more.
Marcus Garvey
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/
In addition to the UNIA, papers this site includes photos and sound files of Marcus
Garvey and the UNIA.
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/index.html
This site includes a timeline and essay on the impact of Garvey’s life.
Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery: an Autobiography
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WASHINGTON/cover.html
Booker Taliaferro Washington on Education
http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/1998/edu/home/btw.htm
On this site Washington’s philosophy of education is summarized.
Frederick Douglas
The Frederick Douglass Papers Project - http://www.iupui.edu/~douglass/documents_links.htm
Here are found links to papers by and about Frederick Douglas.
Compiled by SM
1/08