African American Resources

African American Resources Updated 12/04/03

"African artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there is good reason to emphasize the formal aesthetic aspects of the objects and the moral and religious ideas they express."

Good collection of resources on African American History and Culture!

Brief comments with striking images highlighting important events in the American civil rights movement. (An ongoing project supported by students at Western Michigan University's Department of Political Science.)

"The study includes a general overview of the Underground Railroad, with a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves, and alternatives to commemorate and interpret the signficance of the phenomenon."

Biographical essays of some important 19th Century African Americans are offered here as part of the Internet African American History Challenge, which "helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American history."

Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.

This database presents primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It offers diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature drawn from the splendid Southern holdings of the UNC--CH Academic Affairs Library. To date we have digitized and encoded over 80 titles, or 18,000 pages of primary source materials and published them on the WWW.

Black history, film reviews, and literature.

The Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans.

An excellent online collection of writings by African American authors, from the Colonial period to modern times.

An excellent online gallery of exhibitions celebrating African American history and contributions to America.

From the Teaching American Literature (T-AMLIT) archive at Georgetown University.

A journal of African American history and culture.

Several African-American newspapers are represented by this superb Online Center.

Resources on the Internet about the life of one of the most famous Americans of the 20th Century.

A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.

This is a list of online information storage sites (FTP, Gopher, Telnet, WWW, BBS, Database, etc.) that contain a significant amount of information relating to or of concern to Black or African people, culture, and issues around the world.

The mission of the National Urban League is to assist African Americans in the achievement of social and economic equality. The Board of Trustees of the National Urban League and all of its affiliates reflect a diverse body of community, government, and corporate leaders. The League implements its mission through advocacy, bridge building, program services and research.

An overview of the life and music of Robert Johnson.

At one time, the baseball leagues were separated by race. This page is dedicated to the Negro Baseball Leagues.

The National Brotherhood of Skiers is an organization which brings together African-American ski clubs from across the country to ski and have a good time. One of the purposes of the NBS during its creation was to help get a black skier into the Olympics.

Information on KWANZAA, the African-American spiritual holiday that was formulated, devised, developed and initiated by Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga on December 26, 1966.