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Selected Scholarly Web Sites in African American Studies

Title Description or Publisher
Alphabetical List of General African American Web Sites  
The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920  OhioHistory.org
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship  Library of Congress
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets 1818-1907  From the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection,
 Library of Congress
African American Theses and Dissertations, 1907-2002  Berkeley Libraries
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century  NYPL Schomburg Library
African Americans and National Identities in Central America  Mt. Holyoke
The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992  University of Michigan
American Colonization Society  Library of Congress
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940  Library of Congress
Amistad Research Center  Tulane
The Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture  Smithsonian Institute
Bibliography of African Americans in Agriculture: History and Culture  selected material from the AGRICOLA database; US Department of Agriculture
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute  
Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography  University of California-Santa Barbara
The Black Population in the United States  census.gov
Black Past Remembered and Reclaimed Blackpast.org;  Choice Outstanding web site
The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords  PBS
Black Sailors: The Howard University Project  
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938  Library of Congress
California Newsreel : African American Perspectives  
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History  
Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection  Temple University
The Church in the Southern Black Community  University of North Carolina
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive  Library-University of Southern Mississippi
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System  U.S. Government
CLASP: Center for Law and Social Policy  
Documenting the American South  University of North Carolina
The Dred Scott Case  Washington University Libraries
Electronic Text Center: Subject: African American  Library-University of Virginia
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences  Princeton
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920  Library of Congress
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress  
Gang Research On-Line: The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, 1919  University of Illinois-Chicago
Handbook of Texas Online: Subject Entry: African Americans  University of Texas-Austin
Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community  University of Michigan
Hartford Black History Project: A Struggle from the Start  
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century  New York Public Library-Schomburg
The Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs  Library-University of Virginia
The James Weldon Johnson Collection  Library-Yale
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies  
Literature and Life: The Givens Collection  PBS
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project  UCLA
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project  Stanford
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House / National Archives for Black Women's History  NPS.gov
NBPC: National Black Programming Consortium  
Pictures of African Americans during World War II  Archives[NARA].gov
Race & Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South: Charlottesville, VA  University of Virginia
Racism Watch Desk  FAIR: Fairness andAccuracy in Reporting
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies UCLA
Records of Slave Ship Movement between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843  University of Wisconsin
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow  PBS
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture  New York Public Library
Secession Era Editorials Project  aka 19th Century Documents Project; Furman University
Seneca Village Website  New York Historical Society
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860  Library of Congress
US Code Collection: Title 42, Chapter 21-Civil Rights  Cornell Unviersity
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights  
United States Department of Justice. Investigation of Recent Allegations regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  June 2000
The Valley of the Shadow  University of Virginia
Virginia Runaways  University of Virginia
Title Description or Publisher
Women's Studies and Feminism  
African-American Women's Timeline, 1619-2002  pdf file; Women's Resource Center,
 University of Alabama
Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography  University of California-Santa Barbara
Black Feminist/Womanist Works: A Beginning List  University of Maryland
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House / National Archives for Black Women's History  NPS.gov
Voice of the Shuttle: Gender Studies Page  UC-Santa Barbara
Votes for Women  Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921;  Library of Congress
Womanist Theory and Research  University of Georgia
Title Description or Publisher
Humanities and the Performing Arts  
African-American Sheet Music: 1850-1920  Library of Congress
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century  NYPL-Schomburg; An exceptional site edited and archived in the most reliable scholarly fashion.
African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective  
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater  
American Verse Project  University of Michigan
Art Access: African American Art  Art Institute of Chicago
Black Film Research Online  University of Chicago
Blues Archives  University of Mississippi
Center for Black Music Research  
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964  Library of Congress
Free to Dance  PBS
Holsinger Studio Collection  Library-University of Virginia
The James Weldon Johnson Collection  Library-Yale
Literature and Life: The Givens Collection  PBS
The Movies, Race and Ethnicity: African Americans  Library-Berkeley
Now What a Time: Blues, Gosple, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943  Library of Congress
Satchmo.net: The Official Site of the Louis Armstrong House & Archvies  
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: The Papers of African American Artistis  personal papers, gallery records and oral history interviews
The Studio Museum in Harlem  
Title Description or Publisher
Brief List of African Studies  
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent  University of Wisconsin
Africa: South of the Sahara  Stanford
African Diaspora Archaeology Network  University of Illinois;  Choice Outstanding Web site
African Studies Internet Resources  Columbia University;  Choice Outstanding Web site
Africana Studies & Research Center  Cornell
Reading Women Writers and African Literatures   "A remarkable resource for Francophone African women writers, this Web site is imaginative and easy to navigate."
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