African americans and A Guide - Resources and Review

Offers numerous original articles, books, eye witness accounts, and images pertaining to slavery in the US state of South Carolina. Provides the history of slavery from 1525 and traces the origins of African American culture and identity in South Carolina. Also provides detailed analyses of the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan and civil rights movements in the region.
 
Exhibition containing introductory and in
depth information about the history and culture of black Americans. It includes sections on colonisation, the abolition of slavery, and migration with images and photographs.
 
Links to bibliographies relating to African Americans. Subjects of bibliographies include writers, art and culture, civil rights, history, inter
racial relations and religion. Part of Ohio State University's Black Studies Library.
 
PeaceNet serves peace and social justice advocates around the world in such areas as human rights, disarmament, and international relations. A number of alternative news services provide a range of information about these and other topics from around the world. Other important issues covered include: African American Networking, Asian Community Networking, and prisoner rights.
 
Offers original articles and features about African
American culture, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include art and museums, business, civil rights, education, entertainment, history, media, movies and music.
 
Resource designed to accompany a television broadcast tracing the agriculture industry in America, and considering the plight of black farmers. Offers a timeline of events dating back to 1863, stories and remembrances from individuals with direct experience of the farming lifestyle, and a selection of poetry taken from the film.
 
Ongoing digital library initiative providing primary source materials from the Library including digital versions of books, manuscripts, photographs and engravings. Includes Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project, A War in Perspective, 1898
1998: The Spanish-American Conflict, Moving Uptown: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan and Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-Century Europe.
 
Annotated index providing access to narratives of interviews with former American slaves, given in the 1930s. Photographs are included, and many of the narratives have been taken from journals about slavery.
 
Online exhibition tracing the African
American experience through nine chronological periods that document the path from slavery to the fight for civil and social equality in the twentieth century. Includes images of a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, government documents, sheet music, and photographs.
 
Collection of resources dealing with many aspects of American cultural studies, with an emphasis on Native and African American issues, as well as ideologies of cultural theory and theorists.
 
A selection of links to resources dealing with African and African
American history.
 
Provides links to other civil rights, African American and Martin Luther King Internet sites. The rest of the Seattle Times site can be accessed, which includes newspaper articles reflecting on the life and achievements of King.
 
Collection of resources providing historical information from the beginning of the slave trade and the Civil Rights movement to the present. Provides access to documentation such as Civil Rights Acts, Black Codes of Mississippi (1865), Black Laws of Ohio (1804), The Declaration of Independence, and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan. Also includes details of historical events, quizzes, folk tales and biographies of significant men, women and groups such as The Buffalo Soldiers and The Golden Thirteen.
 
Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of african american studies.
 
Biographical information, quotes, and full text speeches pertaining to, and delivered by, the prominent civil rights activist. Also gives details of Martin Luther King day, as celebrated in the US on the third Monday in January.
 
Monthly exploration of the art of African America, Caribbean America, Afro
Latin America including Brazil and Polynesia. Links to artists, collectors, galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, publications, and a directory of national fine art.
 
Provides a civil rights timeline, black history quizzes, information about Negro league baseball and hockey players, blacks in the military, and various data including US states with an African American population of over one million, and annual earnings by educational attainment, race, and sex.
 
Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of sociology.
 
Collection of resources examining experiences and accomplishments of African Americans in the areas of arts, living, history, politics and people. Relevant TV listings and features are given.
 
Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources about slavery.
 
Provides a black history datebook and calendar, with facts for each day and biographies of famous black men and women.
 
A centre devoted to the research and study of African American music and culture. Collections include audio and video recordings, photographs, original scores, and oral histories, among other artifacts and ephemera related to popular, religious, and art musics, and black radio.
 
Profiles of over 40 African American scientists of various disciplines. Entries contain descriptions of work, bibliography, links to patents and drawings. Other information on minorities is also provided.
 
Pointers to African American history material, as well as an extensive repository of primary documents. Also contains bibliographies of African American arts, education, history, and science resources.
 
An RSLP funded project aiming to identify and map national research resources for Caribbean studies, and the history of Black and Asian people in Britain. Outlines project activities, progress reports, and news and events. A fully searchable database and subject gateway is due to be launched in May 2002.
 
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