African American History - Hagedorn Library Learning Center

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African American History Links

Online Databases

Children & Young
Adult Literature

Teacher Resources

Primary Sources

The African American Mosaic The Library of Congress Resource Guide for Studying Black History and Culture	African American Odyssey The Library of Congress American Memory Site
The Daniel A.P. Murray Pamphlet Collection Primary source material on African-American history and culture from the Library of Congress	Images for African American from the 19th Century The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections
Documenting the American South Primary sources such as electronic texts of First Person Narratives of the American South and North American Slave Narratives and images.	Primary Text List Alphabetically arranged by author or subject.

History

The Schomburg Center: Harlem 1900-1940	Facts on Black/African American Population
AFRO-American Almanac	Stamp on Black History Month
African American Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty	Black History

Literature

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century from the Schomburg Center	A Brief Chronology of African American Literature
Perspectives in American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance 1919-1937	African American Writers: Online E-texts

Art

Afro-Americans in the Visual Arts	African American Art
A Journey Through Art with W. H. Johnson

Music

The Indiana University Archives of African-American Music and Culture	Black History Music
Archives of the Early Lindy Hop

Math and Science

African Americans in the Sciences	Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
African American Inventors

Teacher Resources

Black History: Exploring African American Issues on the Web includes hotlist, subject sampler, treasure hunt, webquests, and videoconferencing ideas.	African American History at About.com
Information Please Almanacs: Black History Month Site

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