Black History Websites

African American Odyssey
This site was created as part of the Library of Congress' efforts to "add rare and unique times from the library's vast African-American collections to the National Digital Library"

Black History Calendar
List important dates in African American history during the month of February.

Born in Slavery
This page of the Library of Congress' exemplary American Memory online collection is the electronic version of 2,200 ifrst-person accounts of slavery collected in the 1930's as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. The narratives and 500 accompanying photographs are searchable by keyword and state. The narratives can also be searched by narrator and by print volume. Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist: 2/15/2002:1044.

CNN Interactive: Birthplace of a Leader.
Offers a virtual tour of the neighborhood that nurtured Martin Luther King and lists places beyond Atlanta that were crucial to the civil-rights movement.

Excerpts from slave narratives
Students can read firsthand accounts of slave life from many angles. For middle school and above.

Images of African Americans from the Nineteenth Century
This offers a variety of images

Library of Congress Exhibit: The African American Mosaic.
Features an extensive collection of documents and photographs, with supporting text, covering not only slavery and reconstruction, but also African-American migration throughout the country.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Web site developed by Seattle Times that provides information on his life, legacy, and more.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month

Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspaper Archieve

.Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photogaphy of Charles Moore
Moore was a freelance photographer based in Florence, Alabama. Most of his landmark civil rights photographs were originally published in Life Magazine. Click on 'photographs' on this page to go to the actual photo's.

Through the Lens of TIme
The Cook Photograph Collection at the ValentineMuseum/Richmond History Center consists of more than 10,000 photographs taken in Virginia and the Carolinas from the 1860s to the 1930s. More than 400 of these photographs documenting African Amerian life have been digitized by Virginia Commonwealth Universities Libraries. The collection can be searched by keyword or subject. Mary Ellen Quinn. Booklist: 2/15/2002: 1044

Links last checked: 3/6/2002 | Back to Social Studies page