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Northern Visions of Race, Region & Reform An online resource documenting conflicting representations of African-Americans, white Southerners, and reformers during and and immediately after the Civil War. In particular, it looks at the stereotypes popularized in the northern press, and the ways that these depictions were countered--or in some cases, reinforced--in the letters written for northern readers by freedmen's teachers and freedmen themselves...... Read more |
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Black History Web: A Teacher's Guide to African American Heroes Online Black History WEB is a free resource for teachers and students searching the web for information (including biographies, timelines, speeches, quotes, documents, lesson plans, trivia, quizzes and more) on famous african-american heroes including Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Denmark Vesey, Septima Clark, Nat Turner, etc...... Read more |
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Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom These images were selected to meet requests regularly received by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division...... Read more |
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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy In 1984, a professor at Rutgers University stumbled upon a trove of historic data in a courthouse in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Over the next 15 years, Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a noted New Orleans writer and historian, painstakingly uncovered the background of 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries making fortunes for their owners...... Read more |
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Freedmen and Southern Society Project No event in American history matches the drama of emancipation. More than a century later, it continues to stir the deepest emotions, and properly so. In the United States, emancipation accompanied the defeat of the world's most powerful slaveholding class and freed a larger number of slaves than did the end of slavery in all other New World societies combined. Clothed in the rhetoric of biblical prophecy and national destiny and born of a bloody civil war, it accomplished a profound social revolution. The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of that revolution by depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners...... Read more |
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'Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain' The exhibition covers Black and Asian history in Britain from 1500 to 1850...... Read more |
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An Early History - African American Mental Health Ecerpted from: Vanessa Jackson, "In Our Own Voices: African American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in the Mental Health System..... Read more |
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The African-American Migration Experience In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds...... Read more |
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The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia A 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts gathered, catalogued and donated by Dr. David Pilgrim, professor of Sociology at Ferris State University. Pilgrim is the founder and curator of the fledgling museum...... Read more |
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LowCountry Africana Lowcountry Africana is entirely dedicated to records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida, an area that scholars and preservationists have identified as a distinct culture area, home to the rich Gullah/Geechee culture...... Read more |
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African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century...... Read more |
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The Exhibit of American Negroes The Exhibit of American Negroes is a reconstruction of highlights from an exhibit of the same name put together by W. E. B. DuBois, Thomas Calloway and the Historic Black Colleges for the Paris 1900 International Exposition. The original exhibit included thousands of photographs, as well as hundreds of books, pamplets and assorted documents chronicling the experience of African Americans up to the year 1900...... Read more |
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Documenting the American South Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs...... Read more |
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Black Loyalists Digital Collections This site explores an untold story of Canada's history: how Canada became the home of the first settlements of free blacks outside Africa...... Read more |
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Who are the Legends of Tuskegee and what do they have in common? Booker Taliafero Washington, George Washington Carver and the Tuskegee Airmen all came to Tuskegee and created their own legends. Tuskegee is more than a town located in Macon County, Alabama. It is an idea and an ideal. It was a bold experiment and a site of major African-American achievements for over 100 years...... Read more |
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Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South Race and Place is an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century. The focus of the collection is the town of Charlottesville in Virginia. The Jim Crow laws segregated African-Americans from white Americans in public places such as schools, and school buses. The archive contains photos, letters, two regional censuses and a flash map of the town of Charlottesville. The Jim Crow laws were not overturned until the important Brown versus Board of Education court ruling in 1954 (but not totally eliminated until the Civil Rights Act of the 1964)...... Read more |
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A Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics Here you can learn about (and even before) the first African Americans in the Mathematical Sciences, (for the First African American Women click) The First Africans, and Other Important Events in the past 300 years...... Read more |
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For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as American citizens. Until well into the 1960s, segregation was legal. The system was called Jim Crow. In this documentary, Americans—black and white—remember life in the Jim Crow times...... Read more |
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The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages...... Read more |
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Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States...... Read more |
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This is an effort to pay tribute to the many volunteer and paid firefighters of color. Not in recent years but in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. This time period is chosen because there is little written about these men and in most instances they are forgotten...... Read more |
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