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African American Resources Links

The following web site links are available to assist you i your research and exploration. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Cultural Center prides it's self in providing relevant and accurate information. The links provide nor their content are affiliated with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Cultural Center, the Office for Multicultural and Academic Affairs or the University of Kentucky.. They are sources that we have found useful in the past. Please notify us of any broken links or if you need additional help.

Phone: 859-257-4130 or email: mlkcc

General

• About Race Relations (About.com)
• Africana (Microsoft)
• AfriGeneas: African Ancestor Genealogy
• Afro American Almanac
• Black Facts Online
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
• Internet Living Swahili Dictionary

Biography

• African American Inventors (About.com)
• African-Women, Online Archival Collection
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences (Princeton University)
• African Philosophy Resources
• Malcolm X: A Research Site
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (Stanford University)
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (University of Buffalo)
• Real African American Heroes (Famous African Americans in the Military)

History & Culture

• Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
• African American Odyssey (The Library of Congress)
• Black History Hot List
• Black History Quest
• Basic Readings in U.S. Democracies
• Documenting the American South
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History & Culture Resources
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
• John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation
• Juneteenth
• National Civil Rights Museum
• North American Slave Narratives
• Official Kwanzaa Web Site
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Literature

• African American Literature Online
• Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart Study Guide
• Harlem Renaissance
• Voices from the Gap:Women Writers of Color
• Writing Black

Bibliographies

• General Bibliography
• Selected Reading for Children

Online Resources

• Center for African and Afro-American Studies (CAAS)
• Harlem 1900 - 1940: An African-American Community
• AllAfrica.com
• African American Music
• University of Chicago Library DUKE ELLINGTON PAGES
• The Duke Ellington Society
• African American & Latina/o Literature
• Black Threads Enterprises: Stories for Our Children
• W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Expanded bibliography for Zora Neale Hurston
• Beginning Library Research on Ethnic Identity in The United States
• Library Research on African American Studies
• African American and/or Black Studies Online Catalogs
• African American Microform Collections: The UC Berkeley Library
• Ethnic Heritage Collections at the New York Public Library
• Documents related to African American History
• Black History, Cultural and Literature Bibliography, U Penn.
• African American Mosaic at Library of Congress
• Your Black Books Guide On-Line
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• "The Book" -- A Black History Web Site
• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Mont
• The San Diego BLAACK Pages (SDBP)
• The Black Inventions Museum

Texts of articles by Du Bois:

• "schoolmaster"
• "strivings"
• "freedmen's bureau"
• "training"

Overview

Organizational

Library

GLBTQ Reading List

African American Resources

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Last Modified: December 6, 2005

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