Links - Black History

Library of Congress :African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
African American history Slavery--The Peculiar Institution Free Blacks i the Antebellum Period Abolition The Civil War Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Era World War I and Postwar Society Depression, New Deal, and World War II Civil Rights
Virginia Black History Archives
African American history oral history videos Separate But Not Equal: Race, Education, and Prince Edward County, Virginia and The Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative
Black Codes : Jim Crow legislation
Black Codes Jim Crow legislation Reconstruction Freedmen’s Bureau Radical Republicans black history african-american history united states history
Black History Milestones: Timeline
In August of 1619, a journal entry recorded that “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were then were bought by English colonists.
Digital History: The March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, over 200,000 people gathered around the Washington Monument and marched eight-tenths of a mile to the Lincoln Memorial demanding civil rights, integrated schools, and decent housing.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 1955, to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, it is unlikely that she fully realized the forces she had set into motion and the controversy that would soon swirl around her.
USF Africana Heritage Project
The project's mission is to rediscover precious records that document the names and lives of former slaves, freedpersons and their descendants, and share those records on this free Internet site.
LOC:African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Co
American Memory African American History Collection includes Slave Narratives, Words and Deeds in American History, and African American Perspectives: Pamphlets.
African Americans During the Civil War
Slavery was not completely abolished in the United States until after the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states taking part in the rebellion: "all persons held as slaves within any state [in which the people were] in rebellion against the United States."
Historically Marginalized Communities Resources: Black/African American
This guide includes information about which Special Collections and University Archives holdings contain materials about the history of historically marginalized communities.
African American History Primary Documents
The following are documents which have contributed to the shaping of African American history. These documents are a starting point for additional research and discussions that help further our understanding of the history of people of African ancestry in the United States.
Biography.com: African American History
..there are countless other African Americans who've made a profound impact in history: self-made millionaire Madam C.J. Walker, astronaut Mae C. Jemison, open-heart surgeon Daniel Hale Williams, inventor Garret Morgan, media mogul Oprah Winfrey and "Father of Black History" Carter G. Woodson,
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and t