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African americans

      Titles Descriptions
  1. African American History Archive
  2. African American Mosaic
  3. African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
  4. African-American World
  5. AFRO-American Almanac
  6. American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
  7. Archives of African American Music and Culture
  8. Artnoir
  9. Black History Hotlist - a Collection of Internet Sites
  10. Black History Month
  11. Black History Quest
  12. Black Studies Library Website: Bibliographies On Line
  13. CASBAH: Caribbean Studies Black and Asian History
  14. Homecoming
  15. Intute: social sciences - slavery
  16. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights
  17. New York Public Library Digital Library Collection
  18. South Carolina: African Americans - 1525-2001

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African American History Archive
Pointers to African American history material, as well as an extensive repository of primary documents. Also contains bibliographies of African American arts, education, history, and science resources.
     Author: Mississippi State University
     Subjects: african americans, north american history
     DeweyClass: 973
     Resource type: index
African American Mosaic
Exhibition containing introductory and in-depth information about the history and culture of black Americans. It includes sections on colonisation, the abolition of slavery, and migration with images and photographs.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: african americans, liberia, slavery
     DeweyClass: 973.049
     Resource type: documents, images, museum
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Online exhibition tracing the African-American experience through nine chronological periods that document the path from slavery to the fight for civil and social equality in the twentieth century. Includes images of a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, government documents, sheet music, and photographs.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: african americans, slavery
     DeweyClass: 973
     Resource type: documents, images
African-American World
Collection of resources examining experiences and accomplishments of African Americans in the areas of arts, living, history, politics and people. Relevant TV listings and features are given.
     Author: Public Broadcasting Service
     Subjects: african americans
     DeweyClass: 973.049
     Resource type: documents
AFRO-American Almanac
Collection of resources providing historical information from the beginning of the slave trade and the Civil Rights movement to the present. Provides access to documentation such as Civil Rights Acts, Black Codes of Mississippi (1865), Black Laws of Ohio (1804), The Declaration of Independence, and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan. Also includes details of historical events, quizzes, folk tales and biographies of significant men, women and groups such as The Buffalo Soldiers and The Golden Thirteen.
     Author: Digital Development Group
     Subjects: african americans
     DeweyClass: 973.049
     Resource type: documents
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
Annotated index providing access to narratives of interviews with former American slaves, given in the 1930s. Photographs are included, and many of the narratives have been taken from journals about slavery.
     Author: Fort, Bruce
     Subjects: african americans, slavery
     DeweyClass: 326
     Resource type: documents
Archives of African American Music and Culture
A centre devoted to the research and study of African American music and culture. Collections include audio and video recordings, photographs, original scores, and oral histories, among other artifacts and ephemera related to popular, religious, and art musics, and black radio.
     Author: Indiana University
     Subjects: african americans, ethnic music, ethnography
     DeweyClass: 780.89
     Resource type: document collection
Artnoir
Monthly exploration of the art of African America, Caribbean America, Afro-Latin America including Brazil and Polynesia. Links to artists, collectors, galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, publications, and a directory of national fine art.
     Author: Wesport Foundation and Gallery
     Subjects: african americans, art exhibitions, brazil, caribbean, ethnic art
     DeweyClass: 700
     Resource type: magazine
Black History Hotlist - a Collection of Internet Sites
Various resources pertaining to United States focussed Black history. Listed sites are intended to act as the raw material for basic studies of African-American history and issues. Includes sections on poetry, slavery, leaders and Black History Month.
     Author: AT&T Education
     Subjects: african americans, world history
     DeweyClass: 909.04
     Resource type: documents, index
Black History Month
Provides a civil rights timeline, black history quizzes, information about Negro league baseball and hockey players, blacks in the military, and various data including US states with an African American population of over one million, and annual earnings by educational attainment, race, and sex.
     Author: Family Education Network
     Subjects: african americans, north american history
     DeweyClass: 973
     Resource type: documents, reference data
Black History Quest
A selection of links to resources dealing with African and African-American history.
     Author: Rediscovery Learning World Inc.
     Subjects: african americans
     DeweyClass: 973
     Resource type: index
Black Studies Library Website: Bibliographies On Line
Links to bibliographies relating to African Americans. Subjects of bibliographies include writers, art and culture, civil rights, history, inter-racial relations and religion. Part of Ohio State University's Black Studies Library.
     Author: Ohio State University
     Subjects: african americans, minorities
     DeweyClass: 305.8
     Resource type: bibliography index
CASBAH: Caribbean Studies Black and Asian History
An RSLP funded project aiming to identify and map national research resources for Caribbean studies, and the history of Black and Asian people in Britain. Outlines project activities, progress reports, and news and events. A fully searchable database and subject gateway is due to be launched in May 2002.
     Author: Institute of Commonwealth Studies
     Subjects: african americans, asian studies, caribbean, cultural studies
     DeweyClass: 305.8
     Resource type: documents
Homecoming
Resource designed to accompany a television broadcast tracing the agriculture industry in America, and considering the plight of black farmers. Offers a timeline of events dating back to 1863, stories and remembrances from individuals with direct experience of the farming lifestyle, and a selection of poetry taken from the film.
     Author: Public Broadcasting Service
     Subjects: african americans, agriculture education, united states history from 1900
     DeweyClass: 973
     Resource type: documents, images
Intute: social sciences - slavery
Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources about slavery.
     Author: Intute
     Subjects: african americans, north american history, slavery
     DeweyClass: 326
     Resource type: index
Martin Luther King and Civil Rights
Provides links to other civil rights, African American and Martin Luther King Internet sites. The rest of the Seattle Times site can be accessed, which includes newspaper articles reflecting on the life and achievements of King.
     Author: Seattle Times Company
     Subjects: african americans, human rights, united states history from 1900
     DeweyClass: 973.9
     Resource type: index
New York Public Library Digital Library Collection
Ongoing digital library initiative providing primary source materials from the Library including digital versions of books, manuscripts, photographs and engravings. Includes Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project, A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: The Spanish-American Conflict, Moving Uptown: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan and Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-Century Europe.
     Author: New York Public Library
     Subjects: african americans, united states culture, united states history - general, women writers
     DeweyClass: 973
     Resource type: documents, images
South Carolina: African Americans - 1525-2001
Offers numerous original articles, books, eye witness accounts, and images pertaining to slavery in the US state of South Carolina. Provides the history of slavery from 1525 and traces the origins of African American culture and identity in South Carolina. Also provides detailed analyses of the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan and civil rights movements in the region.
     Author: SCIway
     Subjects: african americans, north american history, slavery, united states civil war
     DeweyClass: 975.700496
     Resource type: books, documents, index