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African American

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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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