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• Black Inventors A to Z

  About.com's biographical guide to African American inventors also contains links to additional content including African American patent holders and a trivia quiz.

• Top Ten African American Inventors

  A brief slideshow from Scholastic Magazine for grades 3-4.

• "America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us" by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

  The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.

• African American History

  Major Speeches: Speeches from outstanding African American orators.

• African American History: Major Speeches

  Speeches from outstanding African American orators

• African American Museum in Philadelphia

  Exhibitions, collections, educational programs, and more. This is the official web site of the museum, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the culture of African Americans in Philadelphia and beyond.

• African American Senators

  Photos and short biographies of African Americans senators, starting with Hiram Revels of Mississippi in 1870, the first African American U.S.senator.

• Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in University City

  Black History Month Events @ Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in University City

• Behind The Veil - Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South

  A selection of 100 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

• Bethune-Cookman College

  Noted educator Mary McLeod Bethune founded what later became known as Bethune-Cookman College in 1904.

• Black Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database

  This database serves as a starting point for relatives or researchers as they begin to piece together individual experiences of black soldiers and sailors in the Civil War.

• Black Dispatches

  African American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War.

• Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  Located just outside of Philadelphia and founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is the oldest of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in America.

• Desegregation of the Armed Forces

  A Collection of Documents detailing President Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces.

• Hampton University

  Located in southeastern Virginia, Hampton University offers a broad range of technical, liberal arts, pre-professional, professional, and graduate degree programs.

• Howard University

  This HBCU is located in Washington, D.C.

• Lincoln University

  Lincoln University is located in southern Chester County, about 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Famous alumni include Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall.

• Morehouse College

  Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., filmmaker Shelton "Spike" Lee, and Olympic Gold Medalist Edwin Moses are among the renowned alumni of Atlanta, Georgia's Morehouse College.

• NAACP’s Criminal Justice Fact Sheet

  Includes information on Incarceration Trends in America, Racial Disparities in Incarceration, Drug Sentencing Disparities, Effects of Incarceration, and Fair Chance Hiring.

• National Constitution Center

  Daily events and activities including Decoding the Document, a workshop that examines the museum’s own rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln, and the interactive Breaking Barriers show, spotlighting the lives of Thurgood Marshall, Bessie Coleman, Jackie Robinson and other barrier-breaking African-Americans.

• Notable African Americans

  Short biographies of prominent African Americans from all walks of life.

• Notable African-American Government Officials

  Important African American Government Officials

• PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History

  "Instead of shying away from hard truths, parents can explain that a long time ago, people were separated by the color of their skin. Some people did not think that was fair, and men and women of all races united to make a change. This is a straight-forward example that teaches empathy, cooperation, and the commonality of a shared goal. It is also a way to teach children how to connect their personal experiences with the larger world." - Nefertiti Austin

• Physicists of the African Diaspora

  Short biographies of African American scientists prominent in physics, chemistry, engineering and mathematics.

• Project Ready’s Allies and Antiracism

  A free online professional development curriculum by UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, that helps to teach allyship.

• Talking About Race

  The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture today launched Talking About Race, a new online portal designed to help individuals, families, and communities talk about racism, racial identity and the way these forces shape every aspect of society, from the economy and politics to the broader American culture.

• The 1619 Project

  The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

• The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar Nelson – I Am An American!

  The Rosenbach’s exhibition, “I Am an American!” The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, explores these questions through the lens of an under-studied local author, teacher, and advocate for social justice who changed American society—starting more than one hundred years ago.

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

  A collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.

• The Faces of Science

  African Americans in the Sciences: This site contains profiles of African Americans who have contributed to science and engineering. Many profiles contain photographs of the scientist.

• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

  This site contains profiles of African Americans who have contributed to science and engineering. Many profiles contain photographs of the scientist.

• The Philly Black History Syllabus: 13 Must-read Books to Understand Our City

  Experts share what books spotlighting Philadelphia you should be reading during Black History Month.

• Timeline of African American History

  From the Library of Congress, a timeline of events from 1852-1925 put together to support a special digital collection entitled "African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection".