Black History

Message to the Black Family

If your children don't remember,
Who their ancestors were,
Please don't let them forget,
That they were a Dignified and Spiritual People.
   ~ Gerald W. Deas, M.D., 1988

100 Great Black Britons
About.com Guide to African American History
The starting place for exploring African American History.
African American Achievers
African American Artists
An on-line portal for both African America Artists and African American History.
African American Biographical Database
An African American Community: The Charlotte Mecklenburg Story
African American History
From the New York Institute for Special Education, an excellent collection of links to websites on Afro-American History and Culture.
African American History and Heritage
Resources and Links for Black History Month, Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Day, Juneteenth and More!
African American History Minute
The African American History Minunte Tour is a National Tour that visits Historically significant African American landmarks and broadcast it via streaming video.
The African American Holocaust
African Americans in the Military
African American Monuments, Museums and Memorials
The African-American Mosaic
Selections from an exhibit at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), depicting 500 years of Black History in the Western Hemisphere.
African American Odyssey
This Special Presentation of the Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. The exhibit explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century.
African American Perspectives
African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1880 - 1920, contains 351 rare pamphlets offering insight into attitudes and ideas of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War. (A presentation from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.)
African-American Pioneers
African American Registry
A calendar-based series of Black American accomplishments from before the Mayflower to the present. (Read what happened on your birthday!)
African Americans on Stamps
Celebrating African-American History on Stamps
A Celebration of African-American Heritage - U.S. Postal Service Publication 354 Publication
Pictures of some of the stamps in the collection:
Also view the award winning Stamp On Black History web site.
African-American Technical Achievers
A tribute to Black Inventors, Scientist and Technologists, past and present.
African-American Women
On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University
African American World (PBS: WNET)
A guide to African American history and culture. From Sojourner Truth to Jacob Lawrence, discover the courage and talent that shaped the African American experience.
Africana.com - The Black Lane on the Information Highway
Produced by the co-editors of Microsoft® Encarta® Africana, Africana.com is designed to promote understanding of black history and culture.
The African Burial Ground
Commemorating the Colonial African Heritage
African By Nature
An independent, critical thinking, progressive, store front and information center.
African Heritage Month
Canada, the ultimate destination of the Underground Railroad, is rich in its own Black culture and heritage. Learn about Black History Month from a Canadian perspective.
AfricanHistory.com
A home-based learning environment that can supplement an individual's education as it relates to the African Diaspora.
AfriClassical.com
African Heritage in Classical Music - A Web site featuring composers and musicians of African descent.
AFRO-American Almanac - African-American History Resource
An on-line presentation of the African in America. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution.
Afrocentric Voices in "Classical" Music
Information on African American performers and composers and on the music forms they influenced, especially opera, art songs and spiritual arrangements. The site includes extensive bibliographies, biographies and music links.
Ambers Black Women's World Page
A site primarily devoted to the celebration of accomplished black women in history.
American Studies, Black History and Literature
Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (1934-)
Poet, Writer, Political Activist and Teacher
Amistad
A movie based on the true story of a 1839 slave revolt on the Spanish ship, La Amistad.
Anthony P. Crawford
A visionary leader, entrepreneur, and family man, who was brutally killed on October 21, 1916 for living the American Dream.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Wikipedia)
Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation (AAAHRP)
A nonprofit organization, dedicated to locating, collecting, preserving and disseminating historical and genealogical information related to the African American population.
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
The mission of ASALH is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Hundreds of images from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.
August Wilson (1945 - 2005)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1987 and 1990.
Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)
Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman was the first African-American female to become a licensed pilot.
Biography Collections: Special Collections: African American
African American biographies from "Lives, the Biography Resource," the largest guide to biography sites on the Web.
Black/African Related Resources
A list of on-line information storage sites that contain a significant amount of information relating to or of concern to Black or African people, culture, and issues around the world, either in files or conferences.
Black Baltimore
Black Cowboys
  • Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo
    A touring Black Rodeo dedicated to all the black cowboys and cowgirls of the past who helped shape the West and those of today who help to keep the spirit of the West alive.
  • Cowboys of Color Invitational Rodeo and Hall of Fame
    A charitable organization whose goal is to educate the public about the much overlooked impact Native American, African American and Hispanic American cowboys had on the development of the southwestern United States as well as provide family entertainment.
  • Black American West Museum
  • BlackWest Presentations, Inc.
    Commited to enhancing the knowledge, heritage, and history that African Americans played in helping to settle the American Frontier and Pioneer West.
Black Europeans (British Library)
Popular versions of history have all too often airbrushed out the contribution of non-Europeans to Western arts and sciences.
Black Facts Online
Blackhistory.com
An evolving portal site where Internet visitors can learn, participate, and contribute to a site that is dedicated to teaching about the many people, events, and institutions who have and are creating the rich tapestry we call black history.
The Black History Network
Black Indians
  • Freedmen Descendants
    An African/Native American site dedicated to the promotion, restoration and preservation of the rights of those Freedmen Descendants of the 5 Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminoles Nations) particular to the Dawes Freedmen Enrollment.
Black Mariners, Seamen and Sailors
BlackPast.org
Remembered & Reclaimed: A comprehensice online reference guide to African American history.
The Black Patriots Foundation -->
Black People in the British Isles and Early Northern Europe
The Black Presence in Britain
Black British History
BLACK QUEST - The Griot
An educational and heritage CD ROM game that celebrates, preserves and reinforces the African American Legacy and History.
Black Wings
An interactive CD-ROM that celebrates the contributions made by African Americans in aviation.
The Canadian Black Heritage in the Third Millennium
Gary Pieters online resource for educators, researchers, writers, students and people researching Black History from a Canadian Perspective.
Celebrating African American History
Exclusive Jerry Jazz Musician interviews with and about prominent African Americans.
Civil Rights Walk of Fame (National Park Service)
Classic in Black
A Dialogue of Civilizations African Culture and Classical Music
The Coleman Young Portal
A biographical portal of the late, former Mayor of Detroit.
Colored Reflections
An interactive history site (1950's to the present) that embraces the thoughts and experiences of people of all colors.
Dr. Cornel West
Noted African-American professor, theologian and social activist.
  • CornelWest.com - Listen to segments of the CD, "Sketches of my Culture"
  • Tavis Smiley Show - Listen to the NPR news magazine program interview with Cornel West.
  • America’s Night Side - Read the transcript from the Cornel West speech at the IPI World Congress 2000, in Boston, MA.
    CSONAN (Canadian Series of North American Negro)
    Information concerning Black World history, with a focus on Black Canadian history and perspectives.
    Dick Gregory
    The DOE Network: The Garden
    The official E-zine for today's woman of color. Site includes biographical sketches of over 100 women of African descent.
    Documenting the American South:
    The Dred Scott Decision
    In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War.
    Ebonyfire's Black Legends and Blacks in the Military
    Early African-American Senators (Texas)
    The right to participate in politics was hard won for African-American Texans. After emancipation, African-Americans were still denied the right to vote or to hold political office. It was not until Reconstruction of the former Confederate states began that African-Americans were able to register to vote and participate in political life.
    Education First: Black History Activities
    Einstein on Race and Racism
    The story of an outspoken political activist who joined forces with Paul Robeson and WEB Du Bois to fight against racism and lynching.
    The Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History
    Encyclopaedia Africana®
    Articles from all over Africa and elsewhere on biographies, history, economic systems, architecture, religion, medicine and other aspects of indigenous African life.
    Encyclopaedia of the Orient
    An encyclopaedia created by the Centre d'Information Arabe Scandinave on the culture and the people of North Africa and the Middle East.
    Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
    Selected links to sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations.
    The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington
    A book by Patricia Bernstein that details the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, TX, which spurred the rise of the NAACP.
    Forever Free: 19th Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates (Texas)
    The inspiring story of 52 African-American men who served as elected officials in Texas in the 19th century.
    Frederick Douglass
    The Freedmen's Bureau Online
    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen.
    Freedmen's Bureau Project (Howard University)
    Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
    Harlem Renaissance
    Harriet Tubman Home - New York History Net
    The HistoryMakers
    The HistoryMakers is a non-profit video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history as the missing link in American history.
    In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    Four Hundred Years of African-Americans on the Move
    Internet African History Sourcebook
    A subset of The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a world wide web project designed to provide easy access to primary sources and other teaching materials in a non-commercial environment. It was developed and is edited by Paul Halsall with the aid of numerous other contributors.
    In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage
    The University of Arizona documents the history of Tucson's African-American community through oral histories, photographs, and texts.
    The Internet African American History Challenge
    An interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American History.
    Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
    World-renowned literary critic, linguist, and anthropologist.
    Jackie Robinson
    Jamaicans of Ethiopian Origin and the Rastafarian Faith by P. Napti
    John Henrik Clarke
    Dr. John Henrik Clarke, our great and distinguished elder scholar/historian, passed on to ancestorhood on July 16, 1998.
    Juneteenth
    The oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery.
    Knowledge Network Explorer: Black History Activities
    A web site to support students as they explore topics related to Black History and African-American issues.
    Know Your Heritage: Black College Quiz
    Kwanzaa
    Learn about Kwanzaa, an African-American celebration!
    Lest We Forget
    The history and culture of African-Americans and other groups; their sacrifices, relationships, interactions, and patriotism; plus their contributions to the growth and development of this great nation.
    Little Known Facts About Slavery
    Madam C. J. Walker
    Malcolm X Institute
    Dr. Manning Marable
    Historian, Political Theorist, Human Rights Activist and Journalist
    The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
    A Research Project of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Maurice Ashley
    African-American Chess Grand Master
    Men and Women of Respect Historical Society
    Middle Passage Monument Project
    Honoring the millions of men, women, and children who lost their lives en route to and at the hands of slavery between the 15th and 19th centuries.
    The Middle Passage Web Site
    From the Teacher's Action Project, Lectures, discussions, readings and a research list of ten key ideas students should learn about the Middle passage.
    Missing Pages
    Historical information on America's Black Towns and Settlements.
    Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet | PBS
    Mumia Abu-Jamal
    Negro Leagues Baseball
    Negro Slavery and The Myth of Ham's Curse
    An examination of Genesis 9:25, Ancient Egypt and it's relationship to modern Black Culture.
    The New Handbook of Texas: African-American History
    Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History & Culture
    African American History within the National Park Service.
    The Panama Canal: The African American Experience
    Paul Robeson
    • Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration
      The Paul Robeson 100th Birthday Committee, in conjunction with Columbia College in Chicago, has created a web resource dedicated to studying, teaching, and celebrating the life of Paul Robeson, the famous African-American athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the civil rights.
    • Biography of Paul Robeson (The Paul Robeson Cultural Center)
      Rutgers University's most famous and accomplished alumni.
    • The Paul Robeson Collection
      Resources created by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
    • Paul Robeson (Princeton Public Library)
      Links to Paul Robeson material at the Princeton Public Library and to content on the Web.
    Pillars of a People
    The 100 African Americans who most influenced the 20th Century.
    Prince Hall Freemasonry
    Compiled by J. Abron, a starting point for information on Prince Hall Freemasonry.
    Puerto Rican History and Culture
    History, culture and facts including native fauna and Taino indian culture from the New York Institute for Special Education.
    Powerful Days in Black and White
    Shocking photographs of the Civil Rights struggle in America, taken by photojournalist Charles Moore.
    Race Riot At East St. Louis - 1917
    Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories
    Former slaves tell you in their own words of their lives in bondage.
    The Rosa Parks Portal
    Biographical portal of the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
    Runoko Rashidi
    Historian, writer and public lecturer with a pronounced interest in the African foundations of humanity and civilizations.
    The Rosewood Massacre of 1923
    (It wasn't just a movie!)
    The Tulsa, Oklahoma Riot of 1921
    Before Rosewood, there was Greenwood. Known for it's prosperity, the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma was know as the Black Wall Street of America. In three days of the worst race riot in our nation's history, aside from countless lives, more than 1,000 homes, scores of black-owned businesses and churches in a 35 block area were lost.
    Sailor: Inventory of African American Historical and Cultural Resources in Maryland
    Save Our African American Historical Sites
    A campaign to heighten awareness of African American heritage, culture and historical sites.
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
    Shades of Black
    Historical artifacts and memorabilia from the W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center in Kansas City.
    Sir Garfield Sobers
    The Great Barbadian Cricketer
    Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
    Information on the slave trade from the Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) Archive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    Small Towns, Black Lives
    An artist's journal of travel and discovery of historically African American communities in the southern counties of New Jersey.
    Sojourn to the Past
    A Civil Rights Education Project and Tour
    This Week In Black History
    A searchable database of black history by month or year.
    Top Black History Sites
    A feature of PathfindersTravel.com, the Travel Magazine for People of Color.
    Unbound: The Triumph of African Americans
    phillyBurbs.com tribute to Benjamin Banneker, Richard Allen, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Guion Bluford, Charles Drew, Miles Davis and Jackie Robinson and others.
    The Underground Railroad
    USCGC Alex Haley
    A U.S. Coast Guard Cutter named after the first Coast Guard Journalist and famous author, Alex Haley.
    Vernice Armour
    Author, motivational speaker, trainer and the Marine Corps’ first African-American female pilot.
    Virtual Museums of the MASTERS
    Virtual Museums presented by the National Black United Front to enable visitors to peruse actual works and writings of some of the leading African Centered Scholars.
    Voices of Civil Rights
    Ordinary people. Extraordinary stories. Personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all.
    the way we Was.com
    Our traditions and cultures from the beginning (slavery) to date.
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    • W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
      The nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans.
    • Du Bois Central UMass Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library
      Links to resources in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at UMass Amherst relating to W.E.B. Du Bois, his life, and legacy.
    The Willie Lynch Writings
    "LET'S MAKE A SLAVE" by Willie Lynch. The Origin and Development of a Social Being Called "The Negro".
    World African Network Online: Black History

    Note: Information on Black Inventors, Scientists and Technologists has been moved to the Technology page. Visit "African-American Technical Achievers," a tribute to men and women technologists of color, past and present.
     
    Additionally, information on African-American Museums has been moved to the Museums and Cultural Centers page.
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    Donald L. Hinson, Jr.