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Afro American Biographies: http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/index.jsp

Biographies, Black History videos, fast facts, quizzes, and a newsletter.
African American History Challenge: http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/

Test your African American knowledge with this quiz!
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: 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.
African American Web Connection: http://www.aawc.com/aawc.html

Links to information on all parts of African American culture.
The African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992: http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Schomburg/text/exhibition.html

The Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture presents an online exhibit of prints and photos depicting the 500-year history of Africans in the Americas. The themes covered are Migration, Work, Culture, and Resistance. Historic information and facts accompany each picture.
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.
Black Facts Online: http://www.blackfacts.com/

Search by keyword or by date for significant African American history facts.
Black History: Exploring African American Issues on the Web: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html

This site, intended for students' study, is filled with African American information and history.
Encarta: Harlem Renaissance: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566483

Musicians, writers, and noteworthy people of the Harlem Renaissance.
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.
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: http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/bhm-sites.htm

Discover historic sites around the US significant to African American history.
Stamp on Black History: 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 United States Colored Troops in the Civil War: http://rs6.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/civilwar/aasoldrs/soldiers.html

African American soldiers during the civil war, with links to photographs and descriptions.

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: 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: 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: 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.
Escape to Freedom: http://www.headbone.com/derby/escape/

Follow along with the story about two kids who are transported back in time to the days of slavery and answer the questions to earn points. You'll need to register with the site before you can play.
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: 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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