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African American Studies 

Resources on the Web for Black History Month

Many information sources for African American and African Studies are now available on line. This is a sampler of some of the most useful web sites sponsored by universities, research centers, non-profits, governments, and news organizations. Useful commercial sites are accessible through some of the gateways in this list.  Inclusion of a link on this page does not imply endorsement of the views or information presented.  The links are active as of January 2000.  This researcher did not check links off the main sites.

 

Site Name

Site Address

Chicago Public Library African American Heritage Sites For Kids

http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/003cpl/afroamj.html

 

Assoc. For The Study Of African American Life And History

http://www.artnoir.com/asalh/

African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania

Africa Web Links: An Annotated Resource List

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html

African-American Museum In Philadelphia

http://www.ushistory.org/tour/_afro.html

African Art:  Aesthetics And Meaning

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

Black Cultural Center At Purdue

http://www.purdue.edu/BCC/

This Week In Black History

http://www.ai.mit.edu/~isbell/HFh/black/thisweek.html

History And Origins Of African-American History Month

http://www.usia.gov/usa/blackhis/history.htm

http://www.sfu.ca/~wwwasad/bhmhib.html

Encyclopedia Britannica Guide To Black History

http://blackhistory.eb.com/

Carleton College Links For African American Studies

http://www.carleton.edu/curricular/AFAM/resources/index.html

 

Woodson Institute

http://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU:80/~woodson/

African American Heritage Links Loyola University In Celebration Of Black History Month

http://www.luc.edu/libraries/cudahy/aahm/aahminet.html

 

Center For Afro-American And African Studies University Of Michigan

http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas/

 

CNN Black History Month

http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/bhm/days/index.html

The Detroit News African American History Site

http://detnews.com/blkhist/

Digital Librarian African American Links

http://www.servtech.com/~mvail/africanamerican.html

The Internet African American History Challenge

http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/fnfdougla.html

 

Du Bois Institute

http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/DuBois/Research/Image/Image.HTML

African American Soldier In The American Civil War

http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/54ma.html

Florida A&M University Black Archive Gallery

http://www.famu.edu/archives/Black_Archives_Exhibition.html

African Americans In The Civil War

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/africanh.html

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/index.html

Martin Luther King Jr. Page At Stanford

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Kwanzaa

http://www.globalindex.com/kwanzaa/welcome.htm

Museum Of Afro American History Boston

http://www.afroammuseum.org/

NAACP 

http://www.naacp.org/

National Civil Right Museum Virtual Tour

http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html

Negro Baseball Leagues

http://www.blackbaseball.com/

Celebrating Black History Month

http://www.grandeprairie.org/blackhistory.html

366th Infantry Regiment Homepage

http://www.wiz-worx.com/366th/index.html

Tuskegee Airmen

http://www.achiever.com/freehmpg/tai/

What Is Juneteenth? 

http://www.juneteenth.com/why.htm

http://www.chumpchange.com/Juneteenth/History.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This page was updated on:  04/10/02