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Gateways

• BUBL Link: African Americans
• Literature & Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora
• Google: Afrcan American Studies
• INFOMINE: Culture & Diversity (then search for African Americans, etc.)
• Know your African American Culture
• Librarians Index to the Internet: African Americans
• Yahoo! African Americans

Educational Institutions/Libraries

• Cornell University

  • John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
• Harvard University

  • Women of Color Web
• Indiana University:

  • Archives of African American Music & Culture
  • Black Film Center/Archive
• Long Island University: African American Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty
• NYPL: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  • Digital Schomburg (images, texts, manuscripts, etc.)
  • Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
  • In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
  • Lest We Forget: Triumph Over Slavery
  • Online Exhibitions
• Tulane University: Amistad Research Center
• Washington State University: Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive
• University of Illinois: Booker T. Washington Papers
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Church in the Southern Black Communnity
  • North American Slave Narratives
• University of Virginia

  • Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs
  • Television News of the Civil Rights Era: 1950-1970
• Virginia Commonwealth University: Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans

Genealogy

• About.com: Genealogy with Kimberly Powell (gateway plus)
• Ancestry.com (includes US census records and some free searching)
• Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library: Genealogy (gateway)
• Ellis Island

  • Genealogy Learning Center
  • Passenger Search (free search)
• FamilySearch (electronic resource of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
• Genealogy.com (free search)
• Google: Genealogy (gateway)
• Librarians Index to the Internet: Genealogy (gateway)
• Ohio Genealogy (Ohio Public Library Information Network - OPLIN)
• RootsWeb.com (supported by Ancestry.com; free search)
• United States Genealogy Sleuth (gateway)
• Yahoo! Genealogy (gateway)

Government Resources

• Black Members of the United States Congress 1870-2004
• Library of Congress

  • African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
  • African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
  • African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection 1818-1907
  • African American Photos for Paris Exposition 1900
  • African Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles
  • African & Middle Eastern Collection
  • American Memory: African American History
  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project 1936-1938
  • Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
  • Images of Twentieth Century African-American Activists
  • Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel
  • Photographs of African-Americans During the Civil War
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery
  • Voices of Civil Rights
  • Working in Paterson
• National Archives

  • African American Records
  • Genealogist/Family Historian
• National Parks Service

  • Bibliographic Essay on the African American West
  • Cultural Groups: African Americans
  • Five Views: Ehtnic Historic Site Survey for California
  • Frederick Douglass
  • History of African Americans is the Civil War
  • Legends of Tuskegee
  • National Underground Railroad: Network to Freedom
  • Network to Freedom
• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

  • Historical Publications
• USINFO: African Americans

Media

• BBC: Multicultural History
• PBS
  • Atlanta 1906: A Race Riot
  • Homecoming: Sometimes I'm Haunted by Red Dirt and Clay
  • Mississippi River of Song
  • Partners of the Heart
  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Museums

• International Museum of the Horse: Buffalo Soldiers
• National Civil Rights Museum
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Smithsonium

  • National Museum of African American History & Culture
    • Alan Dershowitz: Criminal Justice after the O.J. Simpson Case
    • Breaking Racial Barriers: African American Portraits from the 1920s
    • Remembering Slavery
    • Separate is not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
    • Speak to My Heart: Communities of Faith and Contemporary African American Life
    • Walter Mosley: Black Male Heroes
• African Voices
• Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
• Black History Month
• Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  • African Music in America
• Civil War@Smithsonian
• Folkways Recordings
  • African American Music
  • African American Voice
  • Blues
  • Gospel
  • Jazz & Ragtime

Organizations

• American RadioWorks
  • Carving Up the Vote: How Redistricting Changed the Election Landscape
  • Oh Freedom Over Me
  • Radio Fights Jim Crow
  • Remembering Jim Crow
  • Say It Plain: A Century of African American Oratory
  • Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
  • Whose Vote Counts?
• Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH)
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Kodak: Powerful Days in Black and White
• Negro Baseball Leagues
• Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
  • History Project
  • Minorities in the Media: 1990-Present
  • Oral History Collection
• Voices of Civil Rights

Regional, State & Local Resources

• African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
• CET Common Ground Initiative
• Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati Riots One Year Later
• Greater Cincinnati Memory Project
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Neighbor to Neighbor Community Conversations on Race

Statistics, Facts, Census

• Chicago 1990 census maps
• Chicago 2000 census maps
• Facts on the Black or African American Population
• Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity
• U.S. Census Bureau
  • Facts for Features (Calendar)
  • Geographic Mobility/Migration