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2005 Theme | Black History Portals and General Information | Historical Documents | Labor and Employment | Other Interesting Sites
Niagara
Movement at Harper's Ferry Centennial Commemoration
From the National Park Service. Includes Niagara Movement descendents and
Niagara Movement Facts.
Niagara's Declaration of Principles, 1905
W. E.
B. DuBois. Address to the Nation. Delivered at the second annual meeting of the
Niagara Movement. Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 16 August 1906
Full text of the address.
Afro-American
Almanac
"An on-line presentation of the African in America." Includes biographies,
books, historical documents & events, folktales and more.
The African American Experience
Links to specially selected resources from the Librarians' Index to the
Internet.
Africana: Gateway to
the Black World - research center
From Microsoft Encarta® - Black Soldiers resource center,
Rosa Parks resource center, slavery resource center, this day in African
American history, and more.
Black History Month
These
recommended resources from the Librarian's Index to the Internet are a great
place to begin your journey through Black History Month.
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Biographies, a timeline, and other articles about black history and culture.
Guide to African American Documentary Resources
Cornell University
provides this annotated listing of 86 websites and digitization projects.
Surf Report of Black History Sites
This collection of educational sites relating to African-American history covers slavery and resistance, the civil rights movement, African-American art and culture and more. Developed by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.
Smithsonian
Institution. African American History and Culture
Avalon Project Documents on Slavery
Collected by Yale Law School, this site has links to the full text of federal and state statutes, treaties and agreements, and other government documents relating to slavery from 1795 to 1865.
African American Perspectives. Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection.
The Library of Congress American Memory Project has digitized the 386 titles in this collection. Daniel A. P. Murray, an employee of the Library of Congress from 1871 to 1923, was charged with the task of gathering books and pamphlets for the Exhibit of Negro Authors at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
Booker T. Washington
Papers
This searchable web site was designed to provide researchers
worldwide with full access to the thousands of pages comprising this 14-volume
printed work.
An full-text online edition of Booker T. Washington's autobiography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
From the Thurgood Marshall Law Library.
From the University of Massachusetts.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers
Project at Stanford University
Publications, papers, speeches, sermons, autobiography, and more.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Black
History Month
Selected Reference Sources from Louisiana State University Libraries, Baton
Rouge, LA.
A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
This museum, located in the Historic Pullman District in Chicago has information on visiting the museum as well as articles about African Americans and the U.S. Railway system.
African American Labor History Links
Compiled by the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, this site has links to important personalities and events in African American trade union history including A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman Porters. Also has links to general black history sites, books, and census information.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
This website from Princeton University explores the achievements of African Americans in the sciences. Biographies of prominent black scientists and statistics relating to the number of African Americans studying in the sciences are here.
Africans on the North American Frontier
Written by a PhD student in American History, this website explores the contributions of African immigrants to New Spain and the American West.
for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library has links to exhibitions and photographs relating to African-American life and culture including African-American women writers and the writers and musicians of the Harlem renaissance.
The Tulsa Reparations Committee presents this website with links to the Report by the Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The committee's report can be read online or downloaded and attempts to discover what happened and to place the events in the context of the times. There are also links to book and other websites about the event.
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