Issues in Depth: Black History Month from The New York Times Learning Network

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

• Colonization: The Beginnings of the American Colonization Society
• Abolition: Abolition as a Social Movement
• Migration: Statistical & Geographical Patterns
• The WPA: Cavalcade of the American Negro & Authors and the Federal Writers' Project

Other Slavery Resources

• Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery from PBS Online
• Sojourner Truth
• Sojourner Truth brief bio and links from the Lakewood Public Library
• Francis Henderson describes living conditions under slavery (1856)
• James Martin remembers a slave auction (1937)
• More Slave Narratives
• The Confessions of Nat Turner Website
• The Levi Jordan Plantation
• The Underground Railroad from National Geographic
• The Underground Railroad from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

• Sergeant Henry Parker
• Cathay Williams, Female Buffalo Soldier
• 1866: Congress Creates the First Peace Time African-American Units
• Telling what daily life was like for the "colored cavalry."
• The 54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I
• Buffalo Soldier, a song by Bob Marley

• Civil Rights Movement Veterans, "This website is of, by, and for Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s."
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement
• Powerful Days in Black and White, images by Charles Moore (Eastman Kodak)
• Examples of Hate Crimes Against African Americans, from civilrights.org
• The Movement, background from the Seattle Times includes Fighting for Fairness and Photo Gallery
• Six Dead After Church Bombing, Washington Post
• The Meredith Mississippi March-June 1966, a set of sixteen photos by Jo Freeman
• Touchstone, an interactive visit to the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama from National Geographic

• A View of the Million Man March Gathering
• The Million Man March Pledge
• The Nation of Islam's "World's Day of Atonement"
• CNN article: "An Emotional Celebration for Thousands of Black Men"
• CNN article: "Celebrities Speak out at the Million Man March"
• Transcript of Louis Farrakhan's speech
• CNN Article on the march and Louis Farrakhan

• The Internet African American History Challenge ©, from Bright Moments
• The Life of Frederick Douglass, by Sandra Thomas
• W. E. B. DuBois, from the W. E. B. Dubois Learning Center
• Jackie Robinson, by Henry Aaron
• Marian Anderson, from Afrocentric Voices
• Martin Luther King, Jr., from the Seattle Times
• Martin Luther King Online
• Citizen King from PBS
• The Official Web Site of Malcolm X
• Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther, a Frontline Interview
• Nelson Mandela, from the African National Congress
• 28 Profiles on important African Americans, from the HistoryChannel
• Profiles of Great African Americans You Should Know, from the Black Collegian
• Contemporary African-American History Makers, by Sonya Stinson
• Celebrating African American History, interviews with and about prominent African Americans from Jerry Jazz Musician

In Their Own Words

• Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"
• Marcus Garvey: "The Tragedy of White Injustice"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. :"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. :"I have a Dream"
• Malcolm X: Interview with Alex Haley (in PDF format)
• President Bill Clinton: Speech on Race Relations
• The Portsmouth, New Hampshire Black Elders, highlights from an oral history project

Church Burnings

• Rebuilding Burned Churches: Black Church Fires Resource Guide
• Response to Hate-Group Violence
• Clinton Sounds Call to Stop Church Burnings, from CNN - June 8th, 1996

• The Importance Of Bridging The Digital Divide, from the Clinton White House
• Wounds from L.A. Riots Still Sting, from CNN Interactive
• The O.J. Simpson Main Page, from CNN Interactive
• Tupac Shakur, from Wikipedia
• Photos of African-American Cowboys, by Ron Tarver
• Blues Highway Photo Gallery, by William Albert Allard

• Rita Dove: "Lady Freedom Among Us"
• Maya Angelou: "On the Pulse of the Morning"

Institutional Changes

• Congressional Black Caucus
• United Nations Statement on Slavery (7 Sep 1956)
• United Nations Statement on Minimum Age for Child Labor (26 Jun 73)

• American Legacy Magazine - Celebrating African-American Culture and History
• Race Relations, from About.com
• Flashback: Black History, American History, from The Atlantic Monthly
• MelaNet "The UnCut Black Experience" (includes the Kwanzaa Information Center)
• Black Press USA Network provided by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Inc.
• Fathom Knowledge Network
• African American World
• Ontario Black History Society
• History and Culture from Nationalgeographic.com
• Footsteps Magazine
• Chasing the Dream: Exploring Black History from CNN
• The Image of Black: Discovering the Hidden History
• The African American Registry