African-American History

Databases

African-Americans History

• African American Odyssey: The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II
• African American Odyssey: Cultural Expressions in the 1940s
• African Americans in New Orleans Making a Living
• Black Facts Online
• Gilderlehrman Online Exhibits (photograph album 1896-1903)
• African-American History and Culture
• African-Americans in Motion Pictures (from Long Island University C.W. Post Campus)
• American History 1930-1939 (from Kingwood College Library)
• African American Mosaic Exhibition (from the Library of Congress)
• Blues and African American History
• Tolerance.org: Black History Month: Why Wasn't I taught That?

Famous People

General Sites

• Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (from The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections )
• Creators of the NAACP: Storey, Ovington and Du Bois
• The Internet African American History Challenge: Portraits of Some Important 19th Century African Americans

  Some Famous Individuals

• Hank Aaron (baseball)
• Muhammad Ali (boxing)
• Maya Angelou (poet)
• Louis Armstrong (musician)
• Josephine Baker (dancer)
• Ida B. Wells Barnett (journalist, civil rights leader)
• Mary McLeod Bethune (educator, civil rights activist)
• Ruby Bridges (segregation of public schools)
• Stokely Carmichael (Black Power Movement)
• George Washington Carver (agricultural scientist)
• Bessie Coleman (aviator)
• Frederick Douglas (abolitionist)
• W.E.B. Dubois (scholar, civil rights activist)
• Duke Ellington (musician)
• Medgar Evers (civil rights activist)
• Ella Fitzgerald (jazz singer)
• Althea Gibson (amateur tennis and professional golf)
• Charles Hamilton Houston (fought against Jim Crow laws)
• Gregory Hines (tap dancer)
• Billie Holiday (jazz singer)
• Lena Horne (singer, actress, dancer)
• Jesse Jackson (civil rights activist)
• Michael Jordan (basketball)
• Florence Griffith Joyner (Olympic track and field)
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.(civil rights leader)
• Rosa Parks (civil rights activist)
• Jackie Robinson (baseball)
• Josephine Ruffin (abolitionist and women's right's activist)
• Dred Scott (slave who sued for his freedom)
• Mary Talbert (founding member of NAACP and women's rights activist)
• Sojourner Truth (abolitionist, women's rights activist, preacher)
• Harriet Tubman (abolitionist, underground railroad)
• Booker T. Washington (civil rights advocate - author of Up From Slavery)
• Phillis Wheatley (poet)
• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (African-American surgeon who fought to get black physicians and patients equal rights)
• Oprah Winfrey (television host)
• Tiger Woods (golf)
• Malcom X (Black Power Movement)

Primary Documents

• A Dream, A Quarter Century, A Reality!
• Selected Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt: Abolish Jim Crow
• African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection 1918-1907 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909 - From Slavery to Freedom (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• An Emergency is On! (Arnold T. Hill wrote this article in Opportunity, Journal for Negro Life, September, 1933 issue)
• The New Deal and the Negro: A look at the Facts
• African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps (Luther C. Randall wrote this article in Crisis, August, 1935 issue)
• Call of Ethiopia Poem by Langston Hughes written in Opportunity, Journal for Negro Life, September, 1935 issue)

Jim Crow Laws

• Examples of Jim Crow Laws by Vernellia R. Randall
• An Introduction to the Jim Crow South

Education

• Separate but Equal: Segregation in the Public Schools
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Brown v. Board of Education: The Precedents
• School Desegregation: On the Front Lines with the Little Rock 9 (1957)
• A Conversation with Ruby Bridges Hall
• Free At Last: he Civil Rights Movement in the United States (A Thinkquest Project)

Prejudice in America

• Heritage Not Hate?
• South Carolina - African Americans - Reconstruction & Restoration Index

Ku Klux Klan

• Ku Klux Klan (from Spartacus.schoolnet.com)
• Search for the Ku Klux Klan from the History Channel
• The Ku Klux Klan in the City 1915-1930

The Scottsboro Trial

• The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys (1931-1937)

The Great Depression

• Documenting America: America From the Great Depression to World War II (Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945)
• The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS Online)
• New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration
• By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

Long Island

• The KKK Flares Up on Long Island (from Newsday's Long Island Our Story series)
• Long Island History: Divine Intervention in Sayville (from Newsday's Long Island Our Story series)
• The "Movement For Equality" -polite protests come to an end as Long Island activists accelerate the drive to secure a range of civil rights (from Newsday's Long Island Our Story series)
• Figures From Long Islands Civil Rights Movement (from Newsday's Long Island Our Story series)

Civil Rights Movement

• Free At Last: Civil Rights Movement in the United States (Think Quest)
• Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights (from the History Channel)

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