RESOURCES ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
American Historical Association
American Studies Crossroads Project
Douglass Archives of American Public Address
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
The African Presence in the Americas 1492 – 1992
Chronology of Race Relations in the U.S. – CQ Quarterly
Library of Congress Time Line of African American History, 1852 - 1880
Library of Congress Time Line of African American History, 1881 - 1900
Library of Congress Time Line of African American History, 1901 - 1925
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (Library of Congress)
The National Civil Rights Museum
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement Photo Gallery
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
“We Shall Overcome”: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Black Oral History Project (Washington State University)
The History of Black History Month
PBS Overview of African American History
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Constitution of the United States of America- with explanatory notes
The Declaration of Independence
“I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King, Jr. April 16, 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr. Address Delivered in Acceptance of Nobel Peace Prize, December 10, 1964
“My Escape from Slavery” Frederick Douglass
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LIBRARIES, AND RESEARCH CENTERS
African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Avery Research Center for Afro-American History and Culture
Black Film Center Archive, Indiana University Smith Research Center
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
Smithsoninan Institution African History and Culture
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATIONS
Justice for All: The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall
The Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
