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African American History

Links from the Historical Text Archive at Mississippi State University.
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African American History Bookmarks

From Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.

African American History, Kansas State Historical Society

African American World

African American history & culture.

African Americans on the Move: A Look at the Forced and Voluntary Movement of Blacks Within America

Article by Rickie Lazzerini in Kindred Trails.

African Studies (Rutgers University Libraries)

African-American Archaeology and African Diaspora Archaeology Resources

Provides detailed lists of resources in African American Archaeology, Cultures and History, divided into topical and regional sections.

AFRO-American Almanac

African American history resource.

Black History Pages

BlackPast.org

Reference guide to African American history.

Boston African-American National Historic Site

Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

Artists, engravers and photographers managed to capture and preserve for posterity a variety of images of African Americans throughout the 19th century.

Fold3 - Black History $

More than a million photos and documents

Goin' To Chicago

Companion web site to the PBS documentary film about the largest internal migration in U.S. history - the move that led millions of African Americans from the South to the cities of the North and West of the United States.

History of the American Negro

West Virginia edition, ed. by A.B. Caldwell, 1923; This collection of biographies of prominent Negro men and women of West Virginia is Volume VII of the Biographical History of the American Negro. It does not include all the important men and women of the race in the State, but it does include many of the noblest and best.

Homecoming

Companion web site to the PBS program on black farmers from the Civil War to the 20th Century.

Isle of Canes

Companion web site to the historical novel by Elizabeth Shown Mills.

Kentucky's Underground Railroad - Passage to Freedom

Companion site to the KET TV's documentary on the Underground Railroad in Kentucky.

Lest We Forget

Documents with focus on the history and culture of African-Americans

North by South

A three-year, NEH-sponsored, study of African American migrations from south to north.