The African-American
Mosaic -- A Library of Congress site that presents a
thorough history of African-Americans.
African-American
Odyssey -- A Library of Congress site that includes a
wealth of information and graphics.
African
American Perspectives -- A Library of Congress site that provides
primary source documents about the African American experience. Use
the search by keyword or browse by subject/author options for best
results.
African
American World -- A PBS site that includes sections on history,
arts and culture, social issues, and biography.
The Afro-American Almanac
-- A history of the African-American people from the days of the slave
trade to the Civil Rights Movement.
African
American Pamphlet Collection -- A Library of Congress site
that provides reproductions of such primary source documents as personal
accounts, legislative and public oration, and organizational reports.
African
American Voices
-- Background information and primary source accounts from individuals
who lived through and experienced slavery.
African
American Women -- Letters and essays written by African American
women slaves of the 19th century.
Africans
in America-- A
PBS site that studies the history of slavery in America from the 1400s
to the Emancipation.
The
Rosewood Incident -- An account of how the African American
township of Rosewood, Florida was attacked and destroyed in 1923 by
a mob of white vigilantes.
U.
S. Supreme Court: Plessy v. Ferguson -- Provides the full
text of the majority and dissenting opinions of the 1896 decision
that supported the doctrine "separate but equal.".
The Wilmington Riot (1898)-- Describes the events leading up to the attack by whites on African Americans.
The
Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Sparked by Rosa Parks' arrest
the bus boycott is regarded as a pivotal point in the history of the
Civil Rights Movement.
Powerful
Days in Black and White -- A collection of photographs taken
by Charles Moore that chronicle the Civil Rights Movement.
The
Trials of the Scottsboro Boys
-- An account of the 1930's trial of nine Black youths accused of
raping a white woman in Tennessee.
African
American History through the Arts
-- Provides information on African art, Africans in European art,
and African American art from colonial times to the present.
Rhapsodies in Black
-- A visually appealing site that includes a study of the
paintings of the Harlem Renaissance with brief biographies of the
artists and some background information of the era..