Africana /African American Studies Subject Guide
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Connects browsers to sites about African American history; hosted by the Historical Text Archives project founded in 1990 at Mississippi State University to aid in the study and teaching of history.
This virtual exhibition by the Library of Congress showcases their incomparable African American collections, displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings.
Contains on-line archival collections about African American women at the Duke University Library.
Provides quality links to a wide variety of resources covering the African continent; maintained by the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
This gateway site offers links to nearly 50 individual countries, a number of regions, and over 35 topics of interest to scholars in sub-Saharan Africa. The links are annotated, and the site is maintained by the Stanford University Libraries.
Hosted by the African American Web Connection, click on the History box on the left hand side of the page to access excellent links to sites about African American history.
Black Resources: Librarians' Internet Index
Compiled by librarians, this site contains hundreds of selected and annotated Web sites providing information about the black experience in the United States. Sub-topics include biography, civil rights, science, religion, education, and countless other subjects.
Images of African Americans in the 19th Century
Hosted by the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site offers around 500 archival photographs, drawings and postcards of African Americans from the post-Civil War period through the early years of the twentieth century. The collection can be searched by broad topics or keywords.
Primarily a portal, this site maintained by the Norwegian Council for Africa presents a sizable compilation of Web links arranged by country, broad topics, and various news sources, both within and outside of Africa.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Hosted by Stanford University, this site contains biographical information about Dr. King, primary documents such as speeches, sermons and letters, sound files, historical photographs, lesson plans for teachers, and much more.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
This is a research unit of The New York Public Library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world, with emphasis on blacks in the Western Hemisphere. Includes access to digital collections, historical photographs, online exhibitions, and much more.
University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
This comprehensive site presents links to direct news sources on Africa, a multimedia library, K-12 resources, and "Africa Web Links," an annotated directory of Internet resources.