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Africana
The Africana
web site is loaded with historical information. Use the Search box, or click
on one of the links on the page to check out historical topics of interest.
The Africana Home Page is also
a great place to browse. |
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Afro-America's Black History Museum. Interactive
exhibits at this site include Black Resistance...Slavery in the U.S.;
The Tuskegee Airmen; Jackie Robinson; the Black Panther Party; Black or
White (advertisements from the 1920s and 1930s); the Million Man
March; the Scottsboro Boys; and This is Our War, articles
written about black soldiers during World War II |
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AFRO-American
Almanac Billed
as " your internet resource for African-American history," this
site has fold tales, biographies, historical documents, and articles on
historical events. The AFRO Voices section is divided into Commentary,
Poetry, and Speeches. |
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Black
History Month
Created and maintained by CNN in partnership with the World African
Network, this site is an excellent place to being nay study of African American
history. Its contents change from year to year, but the site can be counted
on to provide information about the important contributions of African Americans.
For additional links, go to the Site
Sampler - Exploring Black History on the Web page. |
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Black
History: Exploring African American Issues on the Web. This
site was created as a model for integrating the Web into classroom learning.
there is A Dhotis of links to various Web sites, a Subject Sampler that
aims to inspire personal interest in Black history, and Web Quests on the
Tuskegee Tragedy and Little Rock Integration. This site is intended for
classroom use. |
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http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/profession.html.
Articles
from the EB cover Arts, Politics, Civil Rights, Education, and more, organized
by time period. |
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| African
American Biographies |
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African
American Biographies from the Encyclopedia Britannica. Listed
alphabetically from A to Z, these are short bios on almost everyone. |
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Africans
in America -- Resource Bank Index. Biographies and information about
influential African Americans prior to and during the civil war |
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Encyclopedia
Britannica - Eras in Black History Timeline. Scroll down through the
timeline to find links to many significant Black History figures. |
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Stamp
on Black History--Profiles of famous African Americans who have been
featured on postage stamps. |
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Enchanted
Learning --Black History Month
--Profiles, timelines and more |
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Scholastic
Publishers -- Culture and Change --Black History in America --Includes
civil right activists, Inventors and more. |
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The
African American Almanac Biographies |
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Google
Directory for Civil Rights Leaders |
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InfoPlease
Index of Notable African Americans |
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African
American Biographies from the Encyclopedia Brittanica |
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American
National Biography -- This database includes images.
If
you have trouble accessing this page from home,
go to the High
School Libfrary Electronic Resources page by clicking on the link, then
go to the Biography section, |
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Gale
Power Search -- If you have trouble accessing this page
from home, go to the High
School Libfrary Electronic Resources page by clicking on the link, then
click on the Gale Power Search link in the table of contents.,
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Encyclopedia
of World Biography - If you have trouble accessing this
page from home, go to the
High
School Libfrary Electronic Resources page by clicking on the link, then
go to the Biography section, |
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Images |
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Google
Image Search |
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EBSCO
Image Search -- Select Image search from the menu of
options |
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Clusty
Images -- Search by name |
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| African-Americans
in the Military |
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Black
Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators. The
story of how one group of Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break
into aviation. This site, from the National Air and Space Museum, includes
primary sources and additional
resource for teachers. |
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Military
Resources: Blacks in the Military. Articles
and documents from the National Archives, detailing African American participation
in the various wars of the United States. Each linked web page has additional
links for further research. |
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The
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. The
site recounts the exploits of the 54th Massachusetts, give access to letters
and other documents of the time, and provides a database with the names
of more than 230,000 African American troops who fought for the Union. |
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| African
American Primary Source Documents |
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Duke
University Collection Primary Sources. Letters
and memoirs from African-American women held in bondage in the United States. |
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