African American Culture & History

Black History Month

African American History Month Book List
A guide to picture books, juvenile books, teen and adult books, and African American folklore and folktales, from the Saint Paul Public Library.

Black History Month (Gale)
Biographies of famous African Americans, a timeline, activities, and a quiz.

Black History Month (History.com)
Videos, audio recordings, photos, and more about the history of African Americans.

Black History Month (Infoplease)
History, timelines, current issues, and special features about the history of African Americans.

Black History Month (Time for Kids)
History, spotlight articles, and stories of famous African Americans, especially for kids.

Celebrating Our Black History
Biography.com presents a timeline, videos, fast facts, and the stories of the lives of famous African Americans.

History

Africans in America
A history of slavery in the United States, presented in four parts. Each section features a narrative and a "resource bank" of maps, pictures, documents, and biographies. The site is a companion to the PBS series.

African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
Covers four major themes in African American history - Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA - with images of original source materials such as photographs, maps, and documents.

African American Odyssey
A virtual exhibition that explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. The site showcases books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, and plays from the African American collections of the Library of Congress.

African American Registry
This site presents "This Date in History," as well as two weeks worth of black history facts. The site also features poetry and song lyrics from African Americans.

African Americans: Biography, Autobiography, and History
Full text transcriptions of important documents in African American history. From the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.

Black History Canada
Black history refers to the stories, experiences, and accomplishments of people of African origin in Canada.

Emancipation Proclamation
Text, images, and background of the document that set the stage for the end of slavery in the United States.

KidsDomain Black History Links
Links for children, including online games, activities, crafts, quizzes, and stories about African-Americans.

Minnesota Black Newspaper Index (pdf)
A guide to people an subjects covered by Minnesota's black newspapers from the 1880s to the 1940s. Note: this is a large (200 page) PDF file.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The history and legacy of the Underground Railroad, featuring a timeline and biographical profiles, as well as links to related sites. Part of a new museum dedicated to the Underground Railroad to be opened in 2004.

Famous African Americans

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Biographical information for African American scientists, including bibliographic information of their publications. The site also includes bibliographies for further research about minorities in the sciences.

The Frederick Douglass Papers
Part of the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, this site includes over 2,000 family papers, pamphlets, brochures, speeches, reports, broadsides, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, articles, and maps about Douglass' life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. Includes a biographical timeline, a family tree, links to full texts of Douglass's autobiographies, and related resources.

The Life of Harriet Tubman
Summary of the life of Harriet Tubman from her life in slavery to her escape to Canada. From the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, NY.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Last Updated:February 26, 2010 jc