Black History Resources
- See also Evanston Public Library’s African-American Studies bibliographies.
General Black History Resources
- The Historymakers
- Interviews and biographies of contemporary African Americans of achievement.
- About.com African American History
- Excellent, frequently updated site, by the author of The Everything Martin Luther King Book.
- African American Odyssey
- Photographs and primary documents in the Library of Congress.
- Freedmen's BureauHas work, marriage and crime victim records for former slaves.
- African American History in the National Parks
- African-American Mosaic
- The Library of Congress's resource guide to African American history and culture. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
- Black History Hotlist
- A great starting point, with a well-organized list of sites on the origins of Black History Month, slavery, poetry black leaders, and current issues.
- Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
- Articles and photographs from the leading 19th-century newspaper give a true historical picture of how black Americans were viewed. Provides an important perspective on the multifaceted history of black Americans.
- Celebrating Black History
- Articles, essays, photographs, and transcripts about the African-American experience from Time and Life magazines. Includes transcripts of online conversations with newsmakers like Toni Morrison and Angela Davis.
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- National research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
- The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
- Biographical information on African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. Each biography provides a detailed bibliography. From the Chemistry Department of Louisiana State University.
News and Culture
- Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance
- Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
- History of African American newspapers and journalist
- African American World
- Joint project of PBS and NPR, with videos, recordings, online discussions and documents on contemporary African American culture and issues.
- African American Literature Book Club
- Authors, books, events, reviews, writers' resources, and discussion groups--all with the goal of increasing awareness and appreciation of African American literature. Author section has information and links to Web pages for African American and other black authors.
- BlackPressUSA.com
- The only national web site featuring news exclusively from African-American journalists and Black community publications,.Includes daily national news, local news, news links, and press releases; a searchable history section with articles and cartoons from black newspapers and journalists of the past, a black history time line, and black history links; and an op-ed page with letters, essays, and current cartoons.
- Negro Baseball Leagues
- This site contains history, player biographies, information on the teams comprising the storied Negro Leagues.
- Soul of Illinois
- Illinois Bureau of Tourism guide to African American culture and history attractions across the state.
- Women of color, women of words
- Features profiles of 19 Black female playwrights, a listing of theatre companies with Web sites that perform African-American and multicultural theatre, a bibliography of critical resources and dissertations, information on current productions, and links.
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
- Newsbank Special Report: Martin Luther King and Black History
- In-depth perspectives on black culture, issues and events, along with profiles of famous figures and leaders. Includes primary source images from the slavery movement.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
- The best online source on Dr King’s life and works. Includes an encyclopedia of King and the civil rights movement, text and video of his major speeches, and sample lesson plans for teachers.
- King's Last March
- American Radio Works documentary on the controversial last year of King's life: his opposition to the Vietnam war, his focus on poverty, and his targeting by the FBI.
- The Global Malcolm X
- Includes a chronology of his life, a bibliography of his writings with some links to online texts, an annotated webliography with links to other sites, and a study guide.
Civil Rights Era
- Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
- Gripping testimony, in words and photos.
- National Civil Rights Museum
- The National Civil Rights Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide. The site shares scenes from the Memphis, Tennessee, museum's exhibits along with text covering highlights of U.S. civil rights history.
- History of Jim Crow
- Well-documented site on legal segregation in the South.
Africa
- HistoryLink: Ancient African Empires
- Compiled by a history teacher, an excellent collection of easy to use sources for students. Includes maps, art and architecture, folklore,primary documents, and hisotry essays on individual countries and tribes.
- News From Africa
- News, features, press reviews and editorials, all written from the perspective of Africans of various nationalities.
- Science in Africa
- A monthly magazine containing popular articles, research findings, events, scientific developments, and resources about science in Africa. Intended to promote local and international awareness of science conducted in Africa, the site also lists job, funding, and educational opportunities for scientists, educators, and students.
- African Studies Quarterly
- ASQ is an interdisciplinary, refereed, on-line journal dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship relating to the African continent.
- Africa Focus
- A database of over 3,500 digitized visual images and 50 hours of sound files from 45 African countries, searchable by keyword, subject, or country.
- The Story of Africa
- Tells the history of the continent from an African perspective. Africa’s top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. There are many pictures and over 40 sound recordings.
- African Voices
- An examination of the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa’s peoples and cultures over time in the realms of family, work, community, and the natural environment. It covers prehistory through the 20th century .
