African American History Month
Internet Resources
Building on the program's theme of searching for lost history, the Web site for African-American Lives 2 provides information about the series, background on the research, scholarship, and science, and resources for people to learn more about their own family history and genealogy.
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
Presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
The Massachusetts Historical Society exhibit features 117 documents including letters, warrants, bills of sale and antislavery material. Also see the Society's Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts.
This database of over 3,500 digitized visual images and 50 hours of sound files from 45 African countries is searchable by keyword, subject, or country. It may also be browsed by collections of images (Artisans, Buildings and Structures, Cities and Towns, Education, Landscape, Religion, and Women) or sounds (Greetings, Rites and Ceremonies, Songs and Singing, and Drums).
Established on September 9, 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, we are the Founders of Black History Month and carry forth the work of our founder, the Father of Black History. We continue his legacy of speaking a fundamental truth to the world--that Africans and peoples of African descent are makers of history and co-workers in what W. E. B. Du Bois called, "The Kingdom of Culture."
Several dozen report-length biographies of athletes, educators, entertainers, public officials, religious leaders, scientists, social reformers, and writers and artists. Many include photographs and chronologies of completed works.
Searchable facts online by date.
The Black Film Center/Archive is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans, including films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of Black experience. Primarily a resource list of historic and contemporary Hollywood and independent films, the site is enhanced by a selection of historical film clips.
Infoplease feature page includes information on History and Timelines, Contemporary Issues, Special Features, Holidays, Education, Quizzes, Awards, Economics and Demographics.
This 3,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history in the United States and on the history of the more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.
A look at the great and often unrecognized leaders in the field of invention and innovation. For more than 300 years, black inventors have served as pioneers in the field of science and have made enormous impacts on society.
The online collection consists of selected correspondence, financial records, contracts, and advertising materials from the Douglass Theatre's records in the Middle Georgia Archives' Charles Henry Douglass business records, and it documents the amusements available to Macon's African American population and the business dealings of this African American entrepreneur from 1912 to the 1930s.
Articles, essays, photographs, and transcripts about the African-American experience from Time and Life magazines. Includes "transcripts of TIME.com's exclusive online conversations with newsmakers like Toni Morrison and Angela Davis."
Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. The accomplishments of the past and present can serve as pathfinders to present and future engineers and scientists.
Get short bios on many prominent African- American figures in history.
"More than one million visitors from all over the world are drawn annually to the King Center to pay homage to Dr. King, view unique exhibits illustrating his life and teachings and visit the King Center’s Library & Archives, his final resting place, his birth home, Bookstore and Resource Center, and other Facilities. Located in Atlanta’s Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, The King Center utilizes diverse communications media, including books, audio and video cassettes, film, television, CDs, DVDs and web pages, to reach out far beyond its physical boundaries to educate people all over the world about Dr. King’s life, work and his philosophy and methods of nonviolent conflict-reconciliation and social change."
Over 1000 entries related to Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2005, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute was created to provide an institutional home for a broad range of activities illuminating the Nobel Peace laureate’s life and the movements he inspired, from which this web resource was inspired.
Multnomah County Library's resource page devoted to African American History, Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad.
A collection of "approximately two hundred texts, including all known narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920." Also see American Slave Narratives, Third Person, First Person, selected documents from the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and African-American Women.
A searchable history of slavery in the United States, featuring images, historical documents, biographies, and contemporary and modern commentaries. Includes a teacher's guide and a Youth Activity Guide. From the PBS series series of the same name.
National Geographic's Interactive Underground Railroad enables users to decide which path to take while providing tidbits of historical data regarding the Railraod and its participants.