Gateways to African American History -- Organizations -- Museums and Memorials -- Online Exhibits -- Media Broadcasts/Coverage -- History Websites -- Science and Medicine -- Literature and the Arts -- Busse Library Resources

Gateways to African American History

Museums and Memorials

• African American Archives of Music and Culture -- University of Indiana
• Black Archives of Mid-America
• Martin Luther King National Historical Site, U.S. Park Service
• National Civil Rights Museum

Online Exhibits

• The African- American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• American Memory: Library of Congress: African American Odyssey
• American Slave Narratives : An Online Anthology
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century: New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Library Collections
• Museum of Afro-American History
• Powerful Days : The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore

Media Broadcasts/Coverage

• Africans in America : A PBS Series
• Christian Science Monitor: Black History Project
• I'll Make Me a World : Education and Community Resources to the PBS Series

History Websites

• African American History : The Dred Scott Decision
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Statutes of the U.S. Concerning Slavery -- online texts
• Black Resistance : Slavery in the U.S. -- compiled by Carolyn L. Bennett
• The Black Panther Party
• Brown VS. Board of Education: The Interactive Experience
• Civil Rights Timeline and Martin Luther King, Jr. : Seattle Times
• Little Rock Central High, 40th Anniversary
• The March on Washington, 1963
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: Stanford University
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Alabama Moments in American History. By Dr. Dorothy Autrey.
• Portraits in Black : The Buffalo Soldiers
• Remembering Rosewood -- documents the 1923 Florida massacre
• Today in Black History
• This Week in Black History

Science and Medicine

• African American Inventors Database: Great Lakes Patent and Trademark Center: Detroit Public Libraries
• The Faces of Science : African Americans in the Sciences

Literature and the Arts

• African American Women: On-Line Archival Collections -- Special Collections Library, Duke University
• African American Literature Links : The Multicultural Pavilion
• The Atlantic.com: "Black History, American History." February 12, 1997 -- links to original Atlantic articles by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King
• Harlem Renaissance : Harlem 1900-1940

Busse Library Resources

• Adell, Sandra. African American culture. 1996. E185. A2525 1996 Ref
• Anderson, James E. Black history, 1915 to 1970 / 1970. Kit E 185. B5x
• Banks, Phyllis M. Black Americans : images in conflict. [1970] PE1122. B347
• Buchanan, Albert Russell. Black Americans in World War II / c1977. D810. N4 B82
• Children's Defense Fund (U.S.) Black and white children in America : key facts. c1985. HQ771. B4x q
• Estell, Kenneth. The African American almanac. c1994-. E185. N385 Ref
• Hay, Samuel A. African American theater : a historical / 1994. PN 2270.A35 H39 1994
• Johnson, Ruth W. African American voices : African American health educators / c1995. RA448.5.N4 A47 1995
• Meltzer, Milton. The Black Americans : a history in their own words, 1619-1983 / c1984. j973.0496 BL2
• Metcalf, Doris Hunter. African Americans : their impact on U.S. history / c1992. LC Soc. St. 26
• Ragsdale, Bruce A. Black Americans in Congress , 1870-1989 / 1990. E185.96 .R25 1990q
• Wintz, Cary D. African American political thought, 1890-1930 / c1996. E185.61 .A239 1996

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