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• African American Firsts - A Timeline of important African American first starting with 1619 when the first Africans landed at Jamestown.
• African American History: Major Speeches - Speeches from outstanding African American orators

19th Century African American History

• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology – The website includes a sampling of the over 2,300 interviews with former slaves recorded by the Works Progress Administration.
• First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 – The University of North Carolina digital collection includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations, including ex-slaves and other African Americans.
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress – All of Douglass's writings including correspondence and his diary are made available online by the Library of Congress
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century – This gallery of captioned photographs from the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library is organized by theme (i.e. Civil War, politics, religion).
• University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center - African American Collection – This archive consists of digitized letters and published works of notable African Americans of the 19th century such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, and other less famous figures.

20th Century African American History

• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archives – The Seattle Times has collected essays and articles about King and his times.
• Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community – This exhibition features articles about prominent figures, organizations, and movements in Harlem with photographs from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library
• Jesse Jackson's 1984 Democratic National Convention Address – Before Obama, Jesse Jackson broke the color barrier for presidential nominees. Listen to his address to the DNC in 1984.
• Unseen. Unforgotten. (Birmingham News) – The Birmingham News releases never-before-seen photos of civil rights events in Alabama.

African American History-General

• African American Odyssey – This website showcases the Library of Congress’s collection of African American-related holdings including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings
• African Americans in Philadelphia – Research Guide – This guide created by University of Pennsylvania librarians is an annotated bibliography of resources at UPenn’s Van Pelt Library and other locations in Philadelphia
• The African-American Mosaic – The Library of Congress’s collection of primary documents relating to African American history includes sections on abolition, migration, and the colonization of Liberia by former slaves.
• Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation – Recommended links for primary and secondary source materials on African American history.
• Smithsonian Institute- African American History and Culture – This gateway to the Smithsonian Institute’s resources on African American history and culture includes links to online exhibits and bibliographies of print resources

African American Timeline

• African American World – PBS presents a timeline of African American history from 1492 to the present.
• 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.
• 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".

African Americans in the Military

• Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster – This Penn Museum exhibit presents 33 posters, most targeting Africans and African American civilians in times of war. These carefully designed works of art were aimed at mobilizing people of color in war efforts, even as they faced oppression and injustice in their homelands, from the American Civil War to the African Independence movement.
• 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
• Desegregation of the Armed Forces – A Collection of Documents detailing President Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces.

Black Colleges and Universities

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

Slavery and the Underground Railroad

• Aboard the Underground Railroad – Produced by the National Park Service. The Underground Railroad is traced through sites across the U.S.
• African American Web Connection – A family-oriented web site designed for African American users and rated safe for children.
• Africans in America – Presented in the form of a timeline, this companion piece to the PBS series documents the journey of a people from 1450 to 1865.
• Afro-American Almanac – A web site devoted to African-American history
• American Slave Narratives: an online anthology – Slave narratives collected during the WPA era and mounted on the University of Virginia website.
• Library of Congress archives – High points of Black History explored.
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center – Online companion to a new museum being built in Ohio.
• North American Slave Narratives – Documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Remembering Slavery – The Smithsonian Institution has created this site where African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation.
• Underground Railroad – Introduction to the Underground Railroad that includes an interactive journey to freedom, timeline, brief biographies of abolitionists, pictures, and music. Includes teacher's page and links to other sites.