IAS 247 African American History

Carter G. Woodson

General African American Resources

Collection of Great African American Resources: University of Minnesota

BlackPast.org: Dr. Quintard Taylor's (UW) Resource Bank

Spartacus Comprehensive Civil Rights Resources

University of South Alabama African American Resources

Black History and Civil Rights Websites

 

 

Week 1

Reconstruction Summary

Harper's Weekly: Towards Racial Equality

Harper's Weekly Cartoons and Cemmentary

Dr. Taylor's Site: The Homestead Act (1862)

 

Week 2

Daniel P. Murray Collection

In her own words: Nell Painter

Freedman Bureau Records

 

Week 3

The Columbia Exhibition Pamphlet

Frederick Douglass on the 1883 Supreme Court Decision

Rachleff Article on the Lynching Photos

Famous African Americans and Events

Buffalo soldiers

Dr. Taylor's: Buffalo Soldier and the Indian Wars

University of Virginia: Online Texts

 

Week 4

Black History: Resource of Several Extensive Links

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance Biographies

NAACP Official Website

 

Week 5

African American History Digital Library

Resources on Lynching in the United States

American Lynching: Strange and Bitter Fruit

The Chicago Race Riots of 1919

African American Artists and Thinkers

 

Week 6

Hinson's: African American Page

Colgate University Library: African American Web Resources

Fort Lawton Trial: Timeline

King County: Remembers Ft. Lawton

Restrictive Covenants: Encyclopedia

Shoreline Restrictive Covenants

Housing Segregation in Seattle

 

 

Week 7

Harvard University:  The Civil Rights Project

PCC African American Resources: by category

University of  Mary African American Web Resources

Week 8

African American Studies: Georgetown University

Malcolm X/ El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Web Site

History of the Black Panther Party

Clayborne Carson on Malcolm and Martin

Martin Luther King  Encyclopedia

 

Week 9

Voter Suppression 2004 worse than 2000 Election

Democracy Now: Suppression of Black Vote

Mandela's Nobel Address

Dr. Martin Luther King's Nobel Address

 

Week 10

Statistics on African American Family

US Prisons Policy