Concerned Parents of Color: Black History on the web

Posted by: rbutler on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 01:58 AM Print article   Email to a friend

There are literally tens of thouands of websites o­n the Internet having to do with Black History.  We can in no way cover even a small fraction of significant sites.  However we do hope that those links we have included peak your interest or provide useful information.


This list may be updated during the months as we gain additional information, so please visit often.
<FONT color=#0000ff>The program from the funeral of Mrs. Corretta Scott King
<SPAN class=566421013-12022006><FONT face=Arial>http://www.tvoneonline.com/shows/27408_Funeral_Program.pdf

Black Facts
http://www.blackfacts.com/<FONT color=#000000> 

<FONT color=#0000ff>Henry David Thoreau essay o­n slavery<FONT color=#0000ff> <FONT color=#0000ff> delivered at an anti-slavery meeting in Framingham, Massachusetts o­n July 4, 1854
http://www.walden.org/institute/thoreau/writings/essays/slavery.htm

<FONT color=#0000ff>Boston Resistance to the federal Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
http://www.masshist.org/longroad/01slavery/fsl.htm

<FONT color=#0000ff>The US Constitution (Cornell Legal Information Institute). The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments deal with the abolition of slavery, due process and equal protection, and rights not to be denied due to race)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/

<FONT color=#0000ff>President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (National Archives)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html

Encyclopedia Britannica  Guide to Black History
http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/ 
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The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/ 

<FONT color=#0000ff>Museum of African-American History (Greater Boston
http://www.afroammuseum.org/

<FONT color=#0000ff>Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. Dubois
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/etc/road.html

<FONT color=#0000ff>Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.thekingcenter.org/

<FONT color=#0000ff>Black Inventors with US patents
<FONT color=#ff4500>including our own Dr. Frank Crossley
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa020600b2.htm

<FONT color=#0000ff>Great Women's Hall of Fame
including such Black women as Sojourner Truth, Madame C.J. Walker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Bessie Coleman, Shirley Ann Jackson
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php

<FONT color=#0000ff>African-American Firsts
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmfirsts.html

<FONT color=#0000ff>African American History Timeline (University of Washigton)
http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/aa_history_public/aatimeline_index.htm

<FONT color=#0000ff>Middle Passage (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/

<FONT color=#0000ff>African-American Biographies (Thompson Gale's Free Resources)
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/ 
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African-American History Timeline (Thompson Gales's Free Resources)
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/timeline/ 

<FONT color=#0000ff>Tuskegee Experiment
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/tuskegee/

<FONT color=#0000ff>Human Radiation experiments involving some African-Americans
http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/articles/may94sibert.htm

<FONT color=#0000ff>Harlem 1900 - 1940 (Schlomberg Center, Univ of Michigan)
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/

<FONT color=#0000ff>Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921 Race Riot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Race_Riot

<FONT color=#0000ff>Omaha, Nebraska 1919 race Riot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Race_Riot_of_1919

<FONT color=#0000ff>Separate is Not Equal - Brown vs Board of Education (Smithsonian Institute)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/

<FONT color=#0000ff>Howard University Gateway to HBCU's
http://www.dll.org/HBCUs/GateWay_files/Profiles.asp

<FONT color=#0000ff>African-American Fraternities & Sororities
http://www.blackgreeknetwork.com/

<FONT color=#0000ff>National Associatation for the Advancement of Colored People
http://www.naacp.org/

<FONT color=#0000ff>National Urban League
<FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.nul.org/