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Black History Month "The Triple Nickles": The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 1944-1947 History, photographs, names, functions, and other information on this battalion of Black paratroopers. Trained for combat in World War II, these soldiers served in the Pacific Northwest as smokejumpers in Operation Fire Fly, responsible for locating and disposing of Japanese balloon bombs, and also for fire fighting. The battalion was subsequently integrated into the 82nd Airborne Division. From the 555th Parachute Infantry Association, Inc. http://www.triplenickle.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Military, Notable People, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Feb 16, 2004 An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet "This guide/directory is revised regularly. It encompasses Internet sites, discussion lists and any other e-resources of relevance to Africa/African studies." Created by librarians Peter Limb and Ibra Sene of Michigan State University's Africana Reference Library. http://staff.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html Topics: Black Resources, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Dec 19, 2008 aalbc.com: African American Literature Book Club This site is a "source of critical reviews of books by and about African American Authors. ... The site features profiles of hundreds of published and unpublished authors and poets, book description and reviews, an online reading group, discussion boards, and much more. ... Not all authors on AALBC.com are African-American. However, all of the authors whose work appears on AALBC.com has been deemed significant to the African-American community." http://aalbc.com/ Topics: Authors by Region: United States, Black Resources, Communications, English Language, Literature & Books, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry, Writing Last updated Jan 17, 2005 Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary A history of the Underground Railroad, including the early antislavery movement. A map displays the routes. Provides links, by state, to a history of each of the surviving historic places along the route, with photos and location, often including hours and phone number if open to visitors. The "Learn More" section includes print and online resources as well as a list of state tourism websites for those states featured. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/underground/ Topics: Black Resources, History, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Jul 11, 2007 Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent This database of over 3,500 digitized visual images and 50 hours of sound files from 45 African countries is searchable by keyword, subject, or country. It may also be browsed by collections of images (artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion, and women) or sounds (greetings, rites and ceremonies, songs and singing, and drums). From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/ Topics: Black Resources, Music, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, Regions of the World, Regions of the World, Religion Last updated Jan 21, 2008 African American Archaeology, History and Cultures "This web site is designed to provide convenient access to online presentations and resources concerning the subjects of African American archaeology, history and cultures, and broader subjects of African diaspora archaeology." Includes links to bibliographies, research institutes, and heritage sites. From the African Diaspora Archeology Network (ADAN), a collaboration of scholars. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/bookmark3.html Topics: Archaeology, Black Resources, Labor Last updated Jul 29, 2009 The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 "This selection of manuscript and printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920." Searchable by keyword (including full-text searching of pamphlets and serials published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church), and browsable by subject and source material (manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, newspapers, and serials). From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html Topics: Black Resources, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 26, 2005 African American History & Heritage Site: Teacher Toolkit for Grades K-12 A huge number of links related to the black experience. The "Reference Offline" section provides a generous quantity of "basic reference resources every library should have," including books, CDs, videos, curriculum guides, and more. http://creativefolk.com/toolkit/library.html Topics: Black Resources Last updated Jan 7, 2006 African American History Timeline This site provides a chronology of historical events from before 1600 through 1969, a chronology about blacks in the western United States, and a list of sources. Also includes a bibliography, a research guide, and links to descriptions of individuals, places, and events that have contributed to the shaping of black history. From a history professor at the University of Washington. http://www.blackpast.org/?q=african-american-history-timeline-home-page Topics: Black Resources Last updated Apr 3, 2007 African American Labor History Links Links to websites, journal articles, book excerpts, and film citations and reviews about the history of African Americans in the labor union movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike at which he was assassinated, and black history in general. http://www.afscme.org/publications/12440.cfm Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Notable People, United States History Last updated Jan 24, 2007 African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection 1818-1907 A collection of over 350 pamphlets presenting "a panoramic and eclectic review of black history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years." Searchable, and browsable by subject and author (including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett). Also contains a timeline of black history (1852-1925), bibliography, and a virtual 1898 meeting of the National Afro-American Council. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html Topics: Black Resources, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jan 26, 2005 African American Photos for Paris Exposition 1900 "The Paris Exposition of 1900 included a display devoted to the history and 'present conditions' of African Americans. W.E.B. Du Bois and special agent Thomas J. Calloway spearheaded the planning, collection and installation of the exhibit materials, which included 500 photographs." View photos from this collection (approximately 500) held by the Library of Congress. Searchable and browsable. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/anedubhtml/anedubabt.html Topics: Black Resources, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Mar 3, 2005 African American Women Writers of the 19th Century This collection of about 50 works provides "access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920." The collection is searchable by author, title and genre. The latter includes fiction, poetry, biography, autobiography, and essays. A project from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Digital Schomburg of the New York Public Library. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/ Topics: Authors by Region: United States, Black Resources, History, Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People: Women, Poetry, Women Last updated Feb 3, 2005 African American Women's History A directory of sites about "the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights." It includes biographies of notable and little-known African American women, organization and club memberships, participation in events and movements, educational and political activities, and more. Includes a list of "white women who worked for racial justice and the rights of African Americans." An About.com site. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/africanamerican/African_American_Womens_History.htm Topics: Black Resources, History, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People: Women, Women Last updated Jul 10, 2008 African American World This site covers history, arts and culture, race and society, biographical profiles, and more. Features include a timeline of African American history from the 1400s on, links to public television readings and programs, a page for children, African American history teaching modules, and pro and con opinions on social issues. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Jan 7, 2006 African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal of African Studies (ASQ) "ASQ is an interdisciplinary, fully refereed, online journal dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship relating to the African continent." This scholarly publication includes articles and book reviews. Past issues (beginning with the first in 1997) are also available online. http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/ Topics: Black Resources, Magazines by Place, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Aug 10, 2009 African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: Freedom's Journal Freedom's Journal was the "first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. ... All 103 issues of the Freedom's Journal have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format." From librarian James P. Danky of the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/ Topics: Black Resources, Newspapers, Newspapers by Place: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 16, 2009 African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University Over 1,300 pieces of music associated with antebellum blackface minstrelsy, the abolitionist movement, the Civil War, and on into the 20th century. Composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook. "Particularly significant in this collection are the visual depictions of African Americans which provide much information about racial attitudes over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/ Topics: Black Resources, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Dec 21, 2006 Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation, 1450 to 1750 This section of a PBS site on Africans in America deals directly with the Middle Passage ("so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage"). It includes a history of the era, links to other entries related to the Middle Passage, and a teacher's guide. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html Topics: Black Resources Last updated Feb 1, 2005 AfriGeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy A searchable collection of census records, slave data, and other documents. There is a surname database, calendar of reunions and other events, discussion forum and chat section, archived e-mail list, a beginner's genealogical research guide, and more. With its intent to "find and document the last slaveholder and the first African in each family," the site encourages submissions of information and adoption of regions and topics for further research. http://www.afrigeneas.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Families, History, Hobbies, People, People, Regions of the World Last updated Jul 27, 2005 Afro-American Genealogical Research Bibliography of resources for researching African American genealogy, including beginner's guides, guidebooks, case studies, and bibliographies. "African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress" is also available by navigating up a level on this website to "Bibliographies & Guides." From the Library of Congress, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/bib_guid/afro.html Topics: Black Resources, Families, History, Hobbies, People, People Last updated Jul 27, 2005 Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History A history of blacks in New Jersey from the colonial period through the 1980s. Originally published by the New Jersey Historical Commission in 1989, and published on the Web by the New Jersey State Library. http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Digidox9.php Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place Last updated Mar 29, 2006 Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820 A database of information on 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains "African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid for slaves, and slaves' testimony and emancipations." Searchable by name, master, gender, racial designation, time period, plantation location, and origin. "Miscellaneous Searches" has lists of African names, slaves involved with revolts, and runaways. Demographic tables are available. http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/ Topics: Black Resources, Families, History, Hobbies, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jan 9, 2004 Amistad America This official website of the Freedom Schooner has a history of the ship and the slave revolt that occurred on it, a photo gallery of the ship and its reconstruction, and related links in the history section "Discover." Also provides information about dockside tours as well as the ship's use as a "floating classroom," visiting national and international ports. The section "The Amistad Story" corrects some of the distortions in Steven Spielberg's movie version of the revolt. http://www.amistadamerica.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Nov 22, 2008 The Amistad Comes to Life! "Activities across the grades and across the curriculum bring to life the story of the revolt on the Amistad." Lesson plans, tips, and suggestions with links to related resources. http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson043.shtml Topics: Black Resources, Lesson Plans Last updated Jan 25, 2005 Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) This site contains information on the founder of ASALH, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, who established the first Negro History Week, which officially expanded to Black History Month in 1976. Includes a list of the Black History Month themes for the next several years, brief details about the Carter G. Woodson Home (a national historic landmark), and information about the annual essay contest for all full-time graduate and undergraduate students. http://www.asalh.org/ Topics: Black Resources, History, Notable People, Special Months Last updated Jan 7, 2006 The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record "The hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery." Illustrated are the "experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World." Searchable by keyword (be sure to use the search button), browsable by categories. From the University of Virginia Library. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor Last updated Aug 15, 2004 The Bancroft Library: African Americans in California This site contains a searchable catalog of the Bancroft Library's holdings of materials by and about African Americans, with an emphasis on materials relating to California and the West (including items from the NAACP West Coast Region, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the Black Scholar Journal). Also features a timeline and links to related sites. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/africanamerican/ Topics: Black Resources, California: History Last updated Aug 19, 2006 Biography.com Celebrates Black History Month Several dozen report-length biographies of athletes, educators, entertainers, public officials, religious leaders, scientists, social reformers, and writers and artists. Many include photographs and chronologies of completed works. http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/ Topics: Black Resources, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Feb 9, 2007 Black Facts Online An "online searchable database of Black History facts." Users can search the database by date (month and day) or keyword for facts. http://www.blackfacts.com/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Jun 18, 2007 Black Film Center/Archive The Black Film Center/Archive is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans, including films which have substantial participation by blacks as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience. Primarily a resource list of historic and contemporary Hollywood and independent films, the site is enhanced by a selection of historical film clips and a good collection of links. From Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/ Topics: Archives, Black Resources, Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, Musicians Last updated Jan 18, 2005 Black History Hotlist Links for exploring African American history and issues. Topics include Black History Month (February), slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, Buffalo soldiers, civil rights movement, Million Man March, poetry, news, people, and much more. From AT&T's Knowledge Network Explorer education program. http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Poetry Last updated Sep 4, 2007 Black History Month To observe Black History Month, this Information Please site features articles on black history and biographies of notable African Americans in politics, history, entertainment, arts, and sports. It also offers information and links about colleges, holidays, the Spingarn Medal, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, preferred racial or ethnic terminology, statistics on population and earnings, a Civil Rights timeline, and literature. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html Topics: Black Resources, Holidays & Observances Last updated Jan 17, 2005 Black History Month [Canada] "Every year Canadians are invited to take part in the festivities and events that honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present, during Black History Month [in February]." The site features an overview of historic events, brief biographical information about important black Canadians, and links to related sites. In English and French. From the government of Canada. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/multiculturalism/black/index.asp Topics: Black Resources, Holidays by Region Last updated Oct 7, 2009 Black Oral History Collection Features interviews with "African American pioneers and their descendants throughout Washington [state], Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, from 1972-1974." Topics discussed "include early black settlers, job opportunities, social life and community, living patterns, black churches, and black political involvement from the late 1800s through 1974." Includes sound files and descriptive records. Browsable and searchable. From Washington State University Libraries. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xblackoralhistory.html Topics: Black Resources, History, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jan 4, 2006 Black Studies A browsable webliography featuring dozens of annotated links to high-quality websites related to African American studies. From the City College of New York (CCNY) Libraries. http://resources.ccny.cuny.edu/resources/subject.jsp?sub_id=60 Topics: Black Resources Last updated Apr 15, 2008 Black Voices This website provides news, discussion forums, and information on sports, entertainment, careers, style, and other topics of interest to the African American community. From America Online (AOL). http://www.blackvoices.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Magazines Last updated Aug 4, 2009 blackenterprise.com News and information on business, personal finance, and politics, with collections of articles on many industries and news about, or of particular interest to, African Americans and black enterprises. Articles from the print edition are archived to 1997. Searchable (requires free registration). http://www.blackenterprise.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Business, Finance, Investing, Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 blackfilm.com Click on the logo on the main page to bypass registration (not required) and search this database of film reviews from African American perspectives. Also features full-length articles, news about video and DVD releases, as well as information about conferences, screenings, and other events. http://www.blackfilm.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Film, Movies, & Video Last updated Aug 25, 2004 BlackPressUSA.com "The only national web site featuring news exclusively from African-American journalists and Black community publications," mostly from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) News Service -- "the last national Black Press news wire." 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. http://www.blackpressusa.com/ Topics: Black Resources, News, Newspapers, Notable People, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Oct 4, 2004 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 "More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves" collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression. It was originally published as the seventeen-volume "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves" (1941). Search by keyword or browse the narratives and photographs. From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Dec 18, 2008 Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection Twenty portraits with brief biographical and artist information from a 1944 exhibition, "Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin." The exhibit was organized with the "express goal of reversing racial intolerance, ignorance and bigotry by illustrating the accomplishments of contemporary African Americans." It opened at the Smithsonian Institution and then toured the United States for ten years. The works are now in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Feb 1, 2005 Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Openly gay activist Bayard Rustin "organized the 1963 March on Washington that culminated in King's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Learn more about his legacy of protest and the making of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. ... Read original essays by Bayard Rustin and listen to recordings of Rustin's speeches and songs, including his famous 1962 debate with Malcolm X." Includes related links. A companion site to the television production from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). http://www.pbs.org/pov/brotheroutsider/ Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered People, Holidays & Observances, Holidays and Observances Individually, Musical Genres, Notable People Last updated Sep 4, 2009 Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site This National Historic Site, which consists of "Monroe Elementary School, one of the four segregated elementary schools for African American children in Topeka," Kansas, commemorates "the landmark [1954] Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools." The Web site provides information about visiting the school, material about the main lawsuit and related cases, and a bibliography. http://www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Education Last updated Sep 30, 2009 Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas "The transatlantic slave trade was the second leg of a triangular economic route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas." This online exhibit examines this slave trade and "seeks to increase understanding of this maritime epic and its legacies in the modern world." Topics addressed include departure, middle passage, arrival, abolition, and legacy (such as food, education, religion, and music). Also includes images, a quiz, and a bibliography. From The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. http://ww2.mariner.org/captivepassage/index.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Museums, Musical Genres, Transportation Last updated Oct 26, 2009 Celebrate African Heritage at Halifax Public Libraries Information about African heritage in Nova Scotia. Includes timelines, booklists, activities, and links to history, culture, biography, genealogy, and education sites. From the Halifax (Canada) Public Libraries. http://halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/ahmonth/index.php Topics: Black Resources, History By Place, Mysteries and More Last updated Oct 29, 2007 Celebrating Black History Articles, essays, photographs, and transcripts about the black experience from Time and Life magazines. Includes "transcripts of TIME.com's exclusive online conversations with newsmakers like Toni Morrison and Angela Davis." http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory/ Topics: Black Resources, Photograph Collections: History Last updated May 5, 2005 Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed This site is a companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Point of View (P.O.V.) documentary about the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 had become the first black woman elected to Congress. The site provides a brief guide to 1972 in the United States and information about the 1972 Democratic Convention. Also includes a trailer and synopsis of the film, and links to related information. http://www.pbs.org/pov/chisholm/ Topics: Black Resources, Federal (U.S.) Government, Government, History, Notable People, Notable People: Government, Notable People: Women, The United States Presidency, U.S. Elections, United States History Last updated Sep 9, 2009 The Chitterling Site In addition to the classic soul food recipes linked from the main page, this site includes many reader-provided recipes available through the searchable archive for its discussion board. Despite a few typos, this is a cook's treat. http://www.chitterlings.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Recipes by Region: United States Last updated Jan 23, 2005 Christine's Genealogy Website Information on African American genealogy including subject collections devoted to African American, Native American, and Hispanic Genealogy Resources, Genealogy Societies, Historical Societies, State Archives, Census Info, and obituaries. Other pages contain a Partial Listing of African Americans Lynched in the U.S. Since 1859, Historic African American Settlements, and more. Searchable. http://ccharity.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Families, History, Hobbies, People, People Last updated Jul 27, 2005

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