African American Web Connection

Afro-American Studies on the Web - created at the University of Wisconsin; includes historical texts available online

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

Eras in Black History - part of The Britannica Guide to Black History

African American History: Historical Text Archive from Mississippi State University

Black Facts Online

Black History Hotlist

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

An African American Patchwork

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

African American Women

North American Slave Narratives: Beginnings to 1920

U.S. Colored Troops – USCT

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

• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Museums

• DuSable Museum of African-American History, Chicago
• African/African American Resources at the Smithsonian
 
• Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
• Links to African-American Museums - from the Museum of Afro American History, Boston

• NAACP Online
• National Urban League
• African American Organizations - includes links to professional organizations, fraternities, sororities, political and social groups

• Minority On-line Information Service - information about historically black colleges and universities, including links for scholarships and fellowships
• The Black Collegian Online

African American Art on the Internet

The Black World Today

Callaloo - an African and African American literary journal

Archives of African American Music & Culture - from Indiana University

Black Film Center & Archive - from Indiana University

Black Classics for the 21st Century - from the Quarterly Black Review (QBR) of literature

• African American Heritage Sites for Kids from the Chicago Public Library
• Watoto World
• Black History Month by Social Studies School Services
• K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet

Events at Elmhurst College - February 1999

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