Data updated: Mon, Apr 28, 2013
Steward: Sandra L. Fletcher
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Please Note: This page will always represent a work-in-progress. If you have web sites or other
information to add, please send an Email to Sandi,
the Steward for this area.
Arts, Culture & Literature
African American Culture — A web site listing other cultural information.
African American Culture Complex — Depictions of culture, history and pride through
art forms.
African American Women In Cinema — African American Women In Cinema is a
non-profit organization whose mission is to support minority women filmmakers
by providing resources in the film industry.
African American Music & Culture — Archives of African American Music & Culture
Smithsonian Museum — African Americans in the Visual Arts.
Education
Africa Institute of South Africa — The Africa Institute was established in 1960, and
whose focus is primarily on political, socio economic, international and
development issues in contemporary Africa.
Alabama A&M University — The University reflects the uniqueness of the traditional
land-grant institution which combines professional, vocational and liberal arts.
Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library — Finding Aids (research Library).
land-grant institution which combines professional, vocational and liberal arts.
Columbia University — African Studies
Duke University — African & African American Studies
Grambling State University — Founded in 1901 as a private industrial school,
the University is now a constituent institution in the University of Louisiana System
and now a comprehensive university offering undergraduate, graduate, professional
and continuing education programs.
Lawson State Community College — "It is the policy of the Alabama State Board of
Education and Lawson State Community College, a postsecondary institution under its
control, that no person shall, on the grounds of race, color, sex, religion, national origin,
age, or disability be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be
subjected to discrimination under any program, activity, or employment.
Moorehouse College — The College is the nation's largest, private liberal arts college
for African-American men.
Moorehouse School of Medicine — A historically black institution established to recruit
and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists, and
public healthcare professionals committed to the primary healthcare needs of
the underserved.
Thurgood Marshal Scholarship Fund — The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF)
was established in 1987 to carry on Justice Marshall's legacy of equal access to
higher education by supporting exceptional merit scholars attending America's
Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
United Negro College Fund — A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
University of Pennsylvania — African Studies Center
University of Pittsburg — African Studies Program
Xavier University of Louisiana — Xavier University of Louisiana is Catholic and
historically Black. The ultimate purpose of the University is the promotion of a
more just and humane society.
Genealogy
African American Resources Project — Telling Our Story Through History
and Genealogical Data... U.S. African American Griots.
AfriGeneas — African Ancestored Genealogy... from Africa to the Americas.
ALGenWeb — Alabama African American Marriages
Christine's Genealogy Website — Who are your people?
Genealogical Societies — Listing of Genealogical Societies
Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. — Washington D.C.
The AfriGeneas List of Links — African American Genealogical resources on the Internet
The Newberry Library — A Bibliography of African American Family History
Photographs/Portraits & Snapshots:
Snapshots & Portraits — African-Americans from 1900 to 1980
Unknown Faces — Old Photographs of African Americans
U.S. Government Archives — African American Research
Health
Black Women's Health Imperative — The new name of the National Black Women's
Health Project
Medicine and the National Institutes Of Health.
African-American Health — Medline Plus - A service of the U.S. National Library of
Medicine and the National Institutes Of Health.
History
Africa — Africa: One Continent. Many Worlds (Museum)
African American Coal Miner Information Center — The historical record shows that
the earliest coal mining in America of any commercial significance involved slaves
working in the coal pits in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia in the mid 1700s.
African-American Heritage Museum — Celebrate the Past, Live in the Present,
Look to the Future
African-American History — From Jessica McElrath, your guide to African-American
History
African American Medal of Honor Winners — from the Civil War to the
Spanish American War
African History Month — Exploring the complex African-American experience of
of life and important history for the African-American Culture (Topics will change).
Allegany County, Maryland — African American History
ASALH — The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
DuSable Museum of African American History — Telling the story...
Gateway to African-American History — The U.S. Department of State
(changing highlights of national and international interest).
Great Blacks In Wax — The Museum is among the nation's most dynamic cultural and
educational institutions. It is a wax museum committed solely to the study and
preservation of African American history, highlighting historical and contemporary
personalities of African ancestry defines its uniqueness.
The History Makers — Stories of success against the odds, of achievement in the
face of adversity, and in all cases.. stories of inspiration.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project — A major research effort, at Stanford
University, to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated.
Paul Laurence — Dunbar House: Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial is also a part of
the National Park's Service's Dayton Aviation Heritage Trail.
We Shall Overcome - Historic places of the Civil Rights Movement
News
Africiana — Gateway to the Black World
African-American News & Issues — TEXAS' Widest Circulated and Read Newspaper
with a Black Perspective .
Black America Web — Online news and views from blackamericaweb.com
current news, and all the usual comprehensive information of interest of the day .
Black Report — A gateway to news headlines and many "Black Magazines" listings.
The Black CoMMentator — Commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting
African Americans.
Today's Drum — An online news magazine, pertaining to African-Americans.
Organizations
NAACP — Making Democracy Work Since 1909.
Societies
African American Genealogy Society — Arkansas Chapter; The Arkansas Chapter of the
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS) was founded in 1997
African American Genealogy Society — Ohio Chapter; Our Society began in 1990 as the
fourteenth chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society.
African American Genealogical Society — California Chapter; a part of the "AFRICA:
One Continent. Many Worlds." web site.
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