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African American

General

Celebrating Our Black History
http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/index.jsp
Biographies, Black History videos, fast facts, quizzes, and a newsletter.
African American History Challenge - Teaching History
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/featured-website-reviews/22856
African American figures and more
The African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture.
African American Odyssey - Intro
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
From the Library of Congress, this site provides a history of African Americans from slavery and Civil War to the civil rights movement.
African American Perspectives
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/
Includes a Timeline of African American history, 1852-1925.
Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
Brief American history of Africans from 1450 to 1865. Includes narratives, teacher resources, and youth activity guide.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
This site is broken down by scientific field and also maintains an index for African American women scientists.
Harlem Renaissance
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm
Listen and watch performers and learn about key figures of the time.
In Motion: The African-American Migration
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
Learn about the "thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America," including the transatlantic slave trade, the Great Migration, the return to the American South, and Haitian and African immigration in the 20th century. Presented by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Juneteenth
http://www.juneteenth.com/
"Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery."
K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
Information on the countries and cultures of Africa for students.
National Parks and Historic Sites - African American History
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/bhm-sites.htm
Discover historic sites around the US significant to African American history.
Stamp on Black History - Esper Template
http://esperstamps.org/history1.htm
This site shows Black Americans on stamps, and gives listings of Black American stamp issues and Black American themed stamps.
The History of African Americans in the Civil War
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/history/aa_history.htm
African American soldiers during the civil war.

Slavery & Abolition

Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slaveship.htm
Read about what Reverend Robert Walsh observed on a slave ship off the African coast in 1829.
African Americans in Slavery
http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/underground/slave.htm
Provides a succinct overview of the history of slavery. Includes links to a map of the enslaved people's origins and a map of slave and free areas in the U.S.
Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This site from PBS presents information about the slave struggle from 1450 to the late 1800s.
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
"From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms." Inlcudes sound files.
"Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/asn00.htm
Seventeen naratives plus lesson plans and links to other resources.
Born in Slavery
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
This site from the Library of Congress presents eight narratives from former slaves.
The Dred Scott Decision - OPB
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
The case that stated slaves were property to be owned.
District of Columbia Emancipation Act
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/dc_emancipation_act/index.html
From the National Archives and Records Administration, view the document that preceded the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
From the National Archives and Records Administration, information about and images of the original Emancipation Proclamation document.
Escape from Slavery, 1838
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fdoug.htm
Read in Frederick Douglass's own words how he escaped from slavery.
From Slavery to Freedom - Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
This African American Pamphlet collection from the Library of Congress. Read newspaper ads selling slaves, suffrage and more.
History of the Missouri Compromise - OPB
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h511.html
This site provides a link to the act and describes the effect on slaves of the Louisana Purchase of 1803.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1750
http://library.thinkquest.org/13406/ta/?tqskip1=1
What role did the Portugese, the Dutch, the English and the French play in the slave trade? Find out at this site, created by students.

Underground Railroad

Aboard the Underground Railroad
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/
From the National Park Service, learn about and see pictures of many of the buildings where runaway slaves took refuge along the Underground Railroad. Find out how the Underground Railroad operated. Also learn about slave trade, the Civil War, and more.
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
A second-grade class created this site that features timelines, puzzles, a quiz, maps, pictures, and ideas for activities.
The Underground Railroad - The Journey
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html
From National Geographic, take this virtual journey along the Underground Railroad as if you were a slave choosing to run for freedom.

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