African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection
African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection...
Black History: Primary Sources
UC San Diego provides primary sources related to the Black experience including The 1964 Freedom Summer Project, Brown vs. Board of Education Archive, Booker T. Washington Online Resources, Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record, African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, African American Migration Experience, and so much more!
DMOZ: African Americans
Includes Douglass, Frederick, Du Bois, W. E. B., du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point, Garvey, Marcus, Till, Emmett, Truth, Sojourner, Tubman, Harriet, Washington, Booker T., Wheatley, Phillis, Black History Month, Civil Rights Movement, Juneteenth Holiday, Museums, Religion, Slavery, Sports, Underground Railroad...
Encyclopædia Britannica: Black History
African Americans, one of the largest of the many ethnic groups in the United States. African Americans are mainly of African ancestry, but many have non-Black ancestors as well.
Library of Congress :African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
African American history, Slavery--The Peculiar Institution, Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period , Abolition, The Civil War, Reconstruction, Booker T. Washington, World War I and Postwar Society, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, Civil Rights Era
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.
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.
Black History Month
Every February, people in the United States celebrate the achievements and history of African Americans as part of Black History Month.
The Amistad Case: Date, Facts & Significance
In August 1839, a U.S. brig came across the schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York. Aboard the Spanish ship were a group of Africans who had been captured and sold illegally as enslaved workers in Cuba. The enslaved Africans then revolted at sea and won control of the Amistad from their captors. U.S. authorities seized the ship and imprisoned the Africans, beginning a legal and diplomatic drama that would shake the foundations of the nation’s government and bring the explosive issue of slavery to the forefront of American politics.
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