Black History Month

• Black History Month from Infoplease
• Biography - Black History Month from Biography.com on A&E
• History Channel's Black History Month
• Black History Month from CNN
• Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) from the Chicago Public Library
• Dr. Carter G. Woodson: Great African Statesman from the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
• Issues in Depth: Black History Month from The New York Times Learning Network
• Famous Firsts in African-American History

Slavery and African American History

• Colonization: The Beginnings of the American Colonization Society
• Abolition: Abolition as a Social Movement
• Migration: Statistical & Geographical Patterns
• The WPA: Cavalcade of the American Negro & Authors and the Federal Writers' Project
• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

• Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery from PBS Online
• Sojourner Truth
• Sojourner Truth brief bio and links from the Lakewood Public Library
• Francis Henderson describes living conditions under slavery (1856)
• James Martin remembers a slave auction (1937)
• More Slave Narratives
• The Confessions of Nat Turner Website
• The Levi Jordan Plantation
• The Underground Railroad from National Geographic
• The Underground Railroad from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

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African Americans & "Buffalo" Soldiers

• Sergeant Henry Parker
• Cathay Williams, Female Buffalo Soldier
• 1866: Congress Creates the First Peace Time African-American Units
• Telling what daily life was like for the "colored cavalry."
• The 54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I
• Buffalo Soldier, a song by Bob Marley

The Civil Rights Movement and Protests

• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement
• Powerful Days in Black and White, images by Charles Moore (Eastman Kodak) Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement, from CNN
• The Movement, background from the Seattle Times includes Fighting for Fairness and Photo Gallery
• Six Dead After Church Bombing, Washington Post
• The Meredith Mississippi March-June 1966, a set of sixteen photos by Jo Freeman
• Touchstone, an interactive visit to the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama from National Geographic

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• Aerial shot of the Mall from Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University
• The Million Man March Pledge
• The Nation of Islam's "World's Day of Atonement"
• CNN article: "An Emotional Celebration for Thousands of Black Men"
• CNN article: "Celebrities Speak out at the Million Man March"
• Transcript of Louis Farrakhan's speech
• CNN Article on the march and Louis Farrakhan

• The Internet African American History Challenge ©, from Bright Moments
• The Life of Frederick Douglass, by Sandra Thomas
• Marcus Garvey, a Research Project of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center
• W. E. B. DuBois, from the W. E. B. Dubois Learning Center
• Jackie Robinson, by Henry Aaron
• Marian Anderson, from Afrocentric Voices
• Martin Luther King, Jr., from the Seattle Times
• Martin Luther King Online
• Citizen King from PBS
• The Official Web Site of Malcolm X
• Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther, a Frontline Interview
• Nelson Mandela, from the African National Congress
• Biographies of great African-American icons from Biography.com
• Profiles of Great African Americans You Should Know, from the Black Collegian Contemporary African-American History Makers, by Sonya Stinson
• Celebrating African American History, interviews with and about prominent African Americans from Jerry Jazz Musician

In Their Own Words

• Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"
• Marcus Garvey: "The Tragedy of White Injustice"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. :"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. :"I have a Dream"
• Senator Robert Kennedy: On Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Life and Death
• Malcolm X: Interview with Alex Haley (in PDF format)
• President Bill Clinton: Speech on Race Relations
• The Portsmouth, New Hampshire Black Elders, highlights from an oral history project

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• Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers"
• Rita Dove: "Lady Freedom Among Us"
• Maya Angelou: "On the Pulse of the Morning"
• Etheridge Knight: "The Idea of Ancestry"
• Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance

General Resources

• American Legacy Magazine - Celebrating African-American Culture and History
• Black Press USA Network provided by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Inc.
• Fathom Knowledge Network
• African American World
• Ontario Black History Society
• History and Culture from Nationalgeographic.com
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Footsteps Magazine
• Chasing the Dream: Exploring Black History from CNN
• The Image of Black: Discovering the Hidden History
• The African American Registry
• The Christian Science Monitor's Black History Pages

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Famous Quotes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going.

Ella Fitzgerald

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Barbara Jordan

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

Rosa Parks

There are no secrets to success- don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Oprah Winfrey

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.