Visualizing Emancipation

http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation

“Visualizing Emancipation is a map of slavery’s end during the American Civil War. It finds patterns in the collapse of southern slavery, mapping the interactions between federal policies, armies in the field, and the actions of enslaved men and women on countless farms and city blocks. It encourages scholars, students, and the public to examine the wartime end of slavery in place, allowing a rigorously geographic perspective on emancipation in the United States.”–From the website.

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil

“The Behind the Veil Oral History Project was undertaken by Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies from 1993 to 1995. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the primary purpose of this documentary project was to record and preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s. Over the span of three summers, teams of researchers conducted oral history interviews with more than one thousand elderly black southerners who remembered that period of legal segregation. The tapes and selected transcripts of the 1,260 interviews in this collection capture the vivid personalities, poignant personal stories, and behind-the-scenes decision-making that bring to life the African American experience in the Southduring the late-19^th to mid-20^th century. It is the largest single collection of Jim Crow oral histories in the world.–From the website.

Documenting the American South

http://docsouth.unc.edu/

“Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.–From the website.

Afrigeneas : African Ancestored Genealogy

http://www.afrigeneas.com/

“AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats.

African American History Month

http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/

“The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.”–From the website.  Many resources to help celebrate Black History Month are found here.

Digital Library on American Slavery

http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/

“The Digital Library on American Slavery offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents and processed over a period of eighteen years. The Digital Library contains detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and whites. These data have been painstakingly extracted from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a wide range of related documents, including wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, among others. Buried in these documents are the names and other data on roughly 80,000 individual slaves, 8,000 free people of color, and 62,000 whites, both slave owners and non-slave owners.”–From the website.

In Motion : The African-American Migration Experience

http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm;jsessionid=f8301527311265158263969?bhcp=1

“In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.  The Web site is organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation.”–From the Website.

Black History Month

http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/activities/

Gale Cengage Learning offers this page of free Black History Month resources which include activities, biographies, helpful links, a timeline, and more.

African Americans In World War II

http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/WW2.HTM

Extensive list of links that provide information and data on African Americans who served in World War II, including links to many photographs.

The Official Kwanzaa Web Site

http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml

This is the web site of the founder of the Kwanzaa holiday, Dr. Maulana Karenga.   Much information here on Kwanzaa, including a Frequently Asked Questions page that contains much good information.

FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm

This is a fantastic site that “makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.  More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.” 

The site is extremely well-organized and easy to search.  Choose a topic from the subject list and find great information about everything ranging from  scientists, countries of the world, history, and jazz to ethnic studies and literature.

A View From the Mountaintop

http://media.myfoxmemphis.com/mlk/index.html

Memphis television station WHBQ offers this site as an archive of footage that their reporters made of the sanitation strike in Memphis in 1968, which includes footage of press conferences, marches, and events which occurred after Dr. King was killed.  There is also other information on the Civil Rights movement, the post Civil Rights era, and the Obama era.

W. E. B. Du Bois: Online Resources

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/dubois/index.html

The Library of Congress offers links to its digital collections relating to W. E. B. Du Bois on this site.  The site also includes links to external sites that have information on Du Bois.

An Era of Progress and Promise : Education and Religion in Post-Emancipation America

http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/dimp/digital/era/index.html

“An Era of Progress and Promise is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of education, the development of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the Negro Business League, religion in the United States, or African-American society in post-Emancipation America.”–From the web site.  You can read the book online here in this database, as well as find profiles of signifigant institutions like churches and schools, and find biographical information on some influential African-Americans from this period of American history.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

“The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database has information on almost 35, 000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.”–From the web site.  The principal sponsor of this project is the National Endowment of the Humanities, and the projcect is an Emory University Digital Library Research Initiative.