Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month

  …… With visits to these outstanding sites.

African-American & Black History Sites

• African American History and Heritage Site

• African-American Website

• AmericanRevolution.org: The Revolution’s Black Soldiers

• Celebrating Black History on the Web

• Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Guide to Black History

• Franklin Institute: Black History Hotlist

• Harper’s Weekly: Toward Racial Equality

• The Internet African-American History Challenge

• Library of Congress: African American History: 17 collections

• Library of Congress: The African-American Mosaic

• NAACP Online

• PBS: African American World

• Scholastic: Culture & Change: Black History in America

Biography Sites

• African-American Inventors

• African Diaspora: Biography on the Internet

• Biographies of Great African-Americans

• FactMonster: Notable African Americans

• Infoplease: Notable African Americans

• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora

• Prominent African-Americans

• Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color

• Yale Law School: African Americans: Biography, Autobiography and History

Reading Lists

• ABC Booklist- Inauguration & Black History Month 2009

• African American Literature Book Club

• Black Is … Booklists for Adults

• Embracing the Child: African-American/Black History and Heritage: A collection of books and links

• Family Education: Books for Black History Month, by age

• Infoplease: Black Books: Required Reading in African-American literature

• Wild Rose Reader: Poetry Books for Black History Month

Miscellaneous Sites

• Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives

• In Motion: The African American Migration Experience

• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

• The Malcolm X Page

• National Civil Rights Museum

• The Negro Baseball League

• “We Shall Overcome”: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement