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February features Black History
books and links!
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For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin
with life as they find it and make it better.
---Carter
G. Woodson, father of Black history
Why We Need Black History Month - All Year Around
An interesting article posted with permission of GHANA REVIEW on
the importance of Black History.
The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian
Featuring selected links to sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations.
Atlantic Monthly - Black History, American History
Essays by Atlantic contributors Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King Jr.
North by South: The Great Migrations
A three-year, National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored, study of African American migrations from south to
north.
Homecoming...
Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay
The story of African-American land loss and a chronicle of black farmers from the Civil War to the
present from PBS.
Gateway to
African American History
Established by the US State Department's Office of International Information
to assist its international audience in acquiring information on the rich and varied
contributions of African-Americans to the culture and history of the United States and the
world.
African
Americans in History
African Americans have played a vital role in the history and culture of
their country since its founding. An important part of the curriculum at the Institute for African American Studies is devoted to creative research on the lives and work of
prominent African Americans and to placing them within their cultural context. On this page you will find brief biographical
sketches of several key figures in African American history.
The National Civil Rights Museum
Offers the first and only comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement in exhibit form. It is an educational institution designed
to help visitors understand the civil rights movement and how this movement
impacted movements for social rights worldwide. Museum visitors experience the
sights, sounds, and emotions of the movement through its exhibits and programs.
Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture
A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
African-American Newspapers
and Periodicals
A collection of publications at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Carter
G. Woodson
Dedicated his life to researching and preserving the saga of the African-American experience. He
became known as ''the father of black history.'' This biography is
from the Chicago Public Library.
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