Gateways and Collections

E-server Race and Ethnicity http://eserver.org/race

African American Writers: Online E-Texts http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm

Africans in America (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/

Don Mabry’s Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=8

About.com’s African American History: Primary Text Index http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blprimary_text.htm

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

African American Mosaic http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

American Slave Narratives (UVA) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives: Beginnings to 1920s (UNC) http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html

National Gallery of Art Selected African American Artists http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-main1.html

B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/libhome.htm 
(see exhibits and events and more)

Art of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.iniva.org/harlem/index2.html

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 To The Present http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_rib.html (exhibit no longer online - Book available)

Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vvhtml/vvhome.html

Baseball: The Color Line and Jackie Robinson http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrabout.html

Frederick Douglas Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

African American Quotations http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmquotes1.html 

Black History Month Resources http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html

Black Film Center/Archive http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/

Salute to Pioneering Cartoonists of Color http://www.clstoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm

Soul Food Cookbook http://www.soulfoodcookbook.com/

Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/posters/

Facts on the Black/African American Population (Statistics) http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/NEWafamML1.html http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/black.html

Curriculum Materials

African-American Poetry Unit http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama/aapoets.htm

Kennedy Center ArtsEdge "Creative Voices of Harlem"
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2248/  More African American  lessons

Kennedy Center’s ArtsEdge African Art and Culture (this lesson is off line)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teaching_materials/curricula/curriculum_units.cfm?curriculum_unit_id=14

Amistad Case http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad/

Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/

Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/

American Memory Learning Page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/index.html

(Visit From Jim Crow to Linda Brown, Jackie Steals Home, and To Kill a Mockingbird)

Journey Through Art with William H. Johnson http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/education/johnson/index.html

Many Faces of Paul Robeson http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/paul_robeson/paul_robeson.html

These resources compiled by Joyce Kasman Valenza - columnist for Philadelphia Inquirer. Used here with permission.

Articles and Studies

The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965-2000 [pdf file]
The Great Migration of African-Americans northwards throughout most of the 20th century to major urban centers was one of the most well-documented internal migrations in United States history. Current trends show a migrations back to the South. Read more in this pdf file.