• African-American Astronauts
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (via New York Public Library)
• African Voices
• Anacostia Museum and Center for African-American History and Culture
• Black History Month (via InfoPlease Almanac)
• Black Wings: African-American Pioneer Aviators
• Celebrate Black History Month (via the History Channel)
• Census Bureau, U.S.
  • Black Population in the United States
  • Black Population 2000, The (.pdf)
  • Census 2000 Briefs
  • 1997 Economic Census' Survey of Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises
  • Facts for Features: Martin Luther King, Jr and African-American History Month
  • Facts on Black/African-American Population
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences, The
• Library of Congress
  • African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the
    Study of Black History and Culture
  • African American Odyssey
  • African-American Perspectives, 1818 - 1907
  • African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
  • First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860 - 1920
  • From Slavery to Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
  • Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860's - 1960's
  • Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938 - 1943
  • Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
  • We'll Sing to Abe Our Song: Sheet Music About Lincoln, Emancipation, and
    the Civil War
  • Words and Deed in American History
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month (via Louisiana State University Libraries)
• National Archives and Records Administration
  • Black History Sources
  • The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
  • The Amistad Case
  • Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
  • From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era
    (from Prologue Summer 1997, v.29 no.2 )
• National Park Service
  • African American in Slavery: Lower Mississippi Delta Region
  • Arlington House, Slavery, and the Plantation Mistress (.pdf) by Marie Tyler-McGraw
  • American Visionaries Exhibits
    • Frederick Douglass
    • Legends of Tuskegee
  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
    (the Supreme Court case that desegregated American schools in 1954...this year marks the 50th Anniversary)
  • Lincoln Home
    • Free at Last: A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America
    • Lincoln on Slavery
  • Our Shared History: African-American Heritage
  • Rally on the High Ground: The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War
    • Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War: A Matter for Interpretation
    • Slavery in American Life: Past, Present, and Future
• Negro League
  • Negro League Baseball.com
• Speeches by African-American Women (via Gifts of Speech )
  • Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth (1851)
  • Change: From What To What by Barbara Jordan, Texas Congressman (1992)
  • Democratic Convention Keynote Address: Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?
    by Barbara Jordan, Texas Congressman (1976)
  • Equal Rights for Women by Shirley Chisholm , New York Congressman(1969)
  • Father Gave Her to His White People After The War: Oral History
    Of Her Days As A Slave by Ms. Holmes, Former Slave (1930)
  • On The Pulse Of Morning by Maya Angelou, Poet (1993)
  • Opening Statement To The House Judiciary Committee, Proceedings On The Impeachment Of Richard Nixon by Barbara Jordan, Texas Congressman (1974)
  • Oral History of Her Days As a Slave by Lucinda Davis, Former Slave (1930)
  • Oral History of Her Days As a Slave by Tempe Herndon Durham, Former Slave (1937)
  • Oral History of Her Days As a Slave by Mary Reynolds, Former Slave, (1930)
  • The Progress of Colored Women Mary Church Terrell, President, National Association Of Colored Women (1898)
• World War II African American Medal of Honor Recipients

Related Websites:

• Rosa Parks: A 5oth Anniversary
• The Search for Equality: Marking the 50th Anniversary
  of Brown v. Board of Edcuation
• Women's History Month

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