Internet Resources for African American History and Culture

Getting Started - General History and Culture Sites

African American Web Connection

Soul Search: the search engine for the world's people of color

African American Resources and Bibliographies - from the Chicago Public Library

African American Odyssey - from the American Memory digital collection at the Library of Congress

Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture - from the National Park Service; includes information about the Underground Railroad and other sites concerned with preserving African American heritage

African American History: Historical Text Archive from Mississippi State University

Black History Hotlist

African American People in History

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - the official MLK site

African Americans and American History

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

African American Women

North American Slave Narratives: Beginnings to 1920

African Americans in the Civil War

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - from the New York Public Library

Negro Baseball Leagues

African American Organizations and Institutions

Museums

Organizations Higher Education
Literature, Music, and the Arts

African American Art on the Internet

The Black World Today

Archives of African American Music & Culture - from Indiana University

Black Film Center & Archive - from Indiana University

Center for Black Music Research - from Columbia College, Chicago




Resources for Teachers and Families

Last updated 22 May 2001
Elmhurst College Library
Elaine Fetyko Page, Assistant Librarian