Academic Info: African American History
     
Quality sites on African American history for researchers, students and teachers. The site list and briefly describes metaindexes, digital libraries and archives, online publications, museum presentations, library and archival catalogs, resoures for teaching and some topics such as Martin Luther King, jazz and slavery. It is a useful source for locating primary materials.
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Africa Focus Project
An image and sound database from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Search by collection, subject or country. Image collections include artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion and women. Sound collections include greetings, rites and ceremonies, songs and singing and drums.
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Black Drama
    
Black Drama contains the full text of nearly 1,200 plays by over 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The database is organized by title, author/playwright, subjects, characters, theaters and theatrical companies, and date of first performance. Additional resources such as playbills, costume design notes, articles, reviews, and interviews are available for many plays. The database is appropriate for students
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Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture contains 1,297 sources with 1,100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals published in the US, including magazines on business, child rearing, and ethnic history. Currently over 270 publications are included. The focus of the database is news, social issues, culture, and related issues. It is appropriate for persons at all academic levels.
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Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids
Finding aids of the Manuscript & Archival collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Collections include personal and family papers, organizational records, and miscellaneous manuscripts. These holdings focus on the history, literature, politics, and culture of peoples of African descent in the Americas and Africa, primarily in the twentieth century. The collections are strongest in the areas of the performing arts, women's studies, Harlem, civil rights and post-civil rights movements, cultural and political movements, African-American religion, and Haitian, Caribbean and Central African history.
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American Verse Project ( U of Michigan)
The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
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Anthropological Index Online
Indexes articles from over 750 journals "in all areas of anthropology and archaeology," from the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (formerly Museum of Mankind). The data is (c) RAI and use is permitted for educational non-commercial purposes (including private study).
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Business and Company ASAP
Business and Company ASAP integrates indexing, abstracts and the full text for business, finance, management, and industry periodicals with a full text directory of global private and public companies. Designed for academic and public library researchers in the United Kingdom and Europe.
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Community Health Data
To use the data you must have SAS; they provide a download on the site.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) site was created in an effort to list all the existing open access (free full text) journals. All subject areas are covered. Currently over 4,300 journals are listed. All of the titles are scholarly, peer-reviewed journals; thus, this site site is most appropriate for the more advanced student or researcher.
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ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
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Essay & General Literature
The Essay and General Literature database provides indexing and abstracts for collections of articles and essays. Approximately 320 books are indexed each year, currently, over 5,000 collections have been indexed. Subject coverage is centered around the humanities and social sciences, including economics, political sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and other subjects. While science and technology are not explicitly covered, the database is rich in articles on the social and philosophical
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals published in the US, including magazines on business, child rearing, and ethnic history. Currently over 270 publications are included. The focus of the database is news, social issues, culture, and related issues. It is appropriate for persons at all academic levels.
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FindArticles.com
FindArticles is a vast archive of research-quality published articles. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. FindArticles has articles from thousands of resources, with archives dating back to 1984.
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Gale Literature Resource Center
The Gale Literature Resource Center (LRC) is a literature reference database covering authors from antiquity to the present. It is comprised of the online versions of Gale's three flagship literature reference sources (Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography), plus selections from an additional fourteen Gale literature reference sources and the full text of over 270 prominent literary journals.
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Highwire Press
HighWire Press produces electronic versions of over 750 high-impact peer-reviewed journals working in conjunction with nearly 200 scholarly publishers. All content is searchable, with titles and abstracts available for all journals. Full text availability varies by title. Some journals are subscription only, others are open access, still others have only the back issues in full text. Click on the appropriate link from the list on left side of the screen to determine availability. All subjects ar
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Humanities Full Text
Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database providing indexing and full text access for about 500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in 42 disciplines. Coverage is heavily weighted toward social sciences and humanities. The titles covered are almost exclusively oriented toward the scholar (senior or higher academic level), but some articles may be appropriate for use by lower level undergraduates.
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Lexis-Nexis
LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; patents, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789;
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Library Literature Full Text
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
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MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. MLA Bibliography incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals.
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New York State Newspapers
This database includes the following newspapers: the Albany Times Union (Albany), Buffalo News (Buffalo), The Daily News (New York, NY), The Herald American (Syracuse), Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY), New York Observer (New York, NY), New York Post (New York, NY), The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Newsday (Melville, NY), The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), The Post-Star (Glen Falls, NY), The Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY) and The Watertown Da
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PsycArticles
The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations.The database covers areas in black studies relating to general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database also includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal.
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PsycINFO
The database covers psychology, psychiatry, and related disciplines, (including black studies topics) covering nearly 2000 journals. Hundreds of these journals are available in full text through the PsychARTICLES database. Most of the publications covered are scholarly, peer-reviewed are oriented toward the scholar (senior or higher academic level), but many titles are appropriate for use by lower level undergraduates.
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Social Sciences Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. Black studies topics are covered in database.
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Sociological Index with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide a wealth of information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.
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SpringerLink
SpringerLink is a database providing indexing and abstracting for over 2,400 scholarly journals and magazines. Full text articles are available for nearly 300 of these titles. Almost all of the publications are scholarly peer-reviewed journals, and are therefore oriented toward seniors or higher level students and researchers. The database covers areas in black studies, but is slightly weighted toward the sciences. Materials available in full text are identified by the presence of a green square to the left of the item.
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AFAS Core Journals and Magazines
A selective list of African American journals and magazines complied by AFAS
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Africabib.org
Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.
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Billboard Online
Billboard Online is like its print version with charts in numerous categories (pop, jazz, rap, country, Latin, etc.). Also has news, features, Tunes on TV (a listing of musicians that are on TV in a given week), a new release roundup and a free search tool for artists' performance itineraries.
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Duke University Press Journals
Duke University Press publishes and distributes more than thirty periodicals that span a stimulating range of disciplines within the humanities and sciences--from East Asian cultural studies to French history, from lesbian and gay studies to mathematics and the history of economic thought, from feminism, culture and media studies to medieval and early modern studies.
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Emerald Full Text
Emerald is a publisher of magazines and scholarly journals covering business and management, some engineering, and librarianship. The Emerald Fulltext database provides access to nearly all of their publications. Materials in Emerald are appropriate for all levels of students or researchers, although the scholarly articles are more appropriate for seniors or higher level students and researchers.
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ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals published in the US, including magazines on business, child rearing, and ethnic history. Currently over 270 publications are included. The focus of the database is news, social issues, culture, and related issues. It is appropriate for persons at all academic levels.
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Gale Literature Resource Center
The Gale Literature Resource Center (LRC) is a literature reference database covering authors from antiquity to the present. It is comprised of the online versions of Gale's three flagship literature reference sources (Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography), plus selections from an additional fourteen Gale literature reference sources and the full text of over 270 prominent literary journals.
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Highwire Press
HighWire Press produces electronic versions of over 750 high-impact peer-reviewed journals working in conjunction with nearly 200 scholarly publishers. All content is searchable, with titles and abstracts available for all journals. Full text availability varies by title. Some journals are subscription only, others are open access, still others have only the back issues in full text. Click on the appropriate link from the list on left side of the screen to determine availability. All subjects ar
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Humanities Full Text
Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database providing indexing and full text access for about 500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in 42 disciplines. Coverage is heavily weighted toward social sciences and humanities. The titles covered are almost exclusively oriented toward the scholar (senior or higher academic level), but some articles may be appropriate for use by lower level undergraduates.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints is a full-text database covering issues that are currently being debated in modern society. The database attempts to present a full spectrum of viewpoints on every issue and includes essays especially written for the database, magazine and newspaper articles, statistical information, images, articles from reference books, primary documents, and web sites. The database is oriented toward lower level undergraduates, but could be useful to researchers at any level of sophisticat
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Readers' Guide Full Text/Readers' Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.
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Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society
A quarterly interdisciplinary journal reground the field of African-American Studies in the living legacy of Du Boisian social and political theory. The principal focus of Souls?s inquiry is the critical examination of Black American and the African Diasporal experience since 1945, marked by the emergence of the anticolonial struggles across Africa and the Caribbean, and the modern Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the United States.
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The Mortimore-Singh Guide to Publication in Library and Information Studies
Resources (websites, books and journal articles that offer practical advice for publishing in library and information studies as well as an index of library and information journals) designed to help students, faculty and practitioners in library and information studies find the right outlet for their research. Also includes descriptions and submission guidelines of library and information studies periodicals in print today.
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Brooklyn Eagle
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. The digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle from reels of microfilm covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
The higher education weekly. Includes news, feature articles, and extensive job listings
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Chronicling America
"Chronicling America" is an internet based, fully searchable news resource containing more than 226,000 pages derived from public-domain newspapers located in mainly ten states published between 1880 and 1910. It also contains a directory of newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present.
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Custom Newspapers
Searchable full-text of more than 120 cover-to-cover newspapers from around the world plus an additional 280 sources of selected news and business coverage.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals published in the US, including magazines on business, child rearing, and ethnic history. Currently over 270 publications are included. The focus of the database is news, social issues, culture, and related issues. It is appropriate for persons at all academic levels.
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Lexis-Nexis
LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; patents, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789;
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Links to other newspapers
These two websites :
http://www.newslink.org
http://www.all-=links.com/newscentral
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National Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
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New York State Newspapers
This database includes the following newspapers: the Albany Times Union (Albany), Buffalo News (Buffalo), The Daily News (New York, NY), The Herald American (Syracuse), Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY), New York Observer (New York, NY), New York Post (New York, NY), The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Newsday (Melville, NY), The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), The Post-Star (Glen Falls, NY), The Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY) and The Watertown Da
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New York Times - Historical Edition
The New York Times (1851 - 2005) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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New York Times: TimesSelect
TimesSelect is now free for University Students and Faculty. A university subscription to TimesSelect includes exclusive access to Op-Ed columnists and news columnists as well as up to 100 articles a month.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints is a full-text database covering issues that are currently being debated in modern society. The database attempts to present a full spectrum of viewpoints on every issue and includes essays especially written for the database, magazine and newspaper articles, statistical information, images, articles from reference books, primary documents, and web sites. The database is oriented toward lower level undergraduates, but could be useful to researchers at any level of sophisticat
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Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll
PDFs of various polls from 1995 on.
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African American & Black Book Publishers
A list of African American book publishers complied by AFAS
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises
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CIA World Fact Book
Latest data on more than 200 countries - includes maps
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collection development sources
African American collection development sources, including online book reviers, in print sources, out of print, rare and antiquarian booksellers and sources for film and music.
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ebooks@Adelaide
This site aims to provide access to the ?classic? works of civilization and to promote the reading of them.
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Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
This classic reference book, available in full text online, explains the principal requirements of plain English style, as well as the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly broken.
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Essay & General Literature
The Essay and General Literature database provides indexing and abstracts for collections of articles and essays. Approximately 320 books are indexed each year, currently, over 5,000 collections have been indexed. Subject coverage is centered around the humanities and social sciences, including economics, political sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and other subjects. While science and technology are not explicitly covered, the database is rich in articles on the social and philosophical
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A rich resource of several hundred online versions of print reference books divided into 18 subject categories: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, General Reference, History, Information & Publishing, Law, Library Science, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, the Nation & the World, Religion, Science, Social Science and Technology. The Advanced Search option offers the choice to further limit search results by three target audiences, Academic, Children's and
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Has links to their movie collection, which focuses mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century.
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Million Book Project
An early collection of books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project.
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National Academies Press
Over 3,700 books are available for free online from the National Academies Press, which publishes reports by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
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NetLibrary
NetLibrary is a collection of more than 1000 online books in all subject areas. Also included in NetLibrary is the Project Gutenberg database of over 3,400 books from all historical periods. Books range from works of fiction and other literature to scientific and technical books. Materials are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels.
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Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online Premium is a database consisting of over 170 reference books published by Oxford University Press in 24 subject areas covering all areas of knowledge. The database contains entries that are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels.
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Twayne Authors Series
Twayne's Author Series is essentially a collection of online books of literary analysis and criticism covering nearly 600 authors. While most of the authors covered are novelists and poets, many are philosophers, historians, scientists, or persons involved in other disciplines. Also included are books on specific genres or on specific works of literature. Note that this database does not include the text of works by the authors being analyzed. The database is appropriate for users at all lev
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2002 Census of Governments
The Census of Governments is taken at 5 year intervals and covers three major subject fields: government organization, public employment and government finance --- site maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau
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American FactFinder - U.S. Census Bureau
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data
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American Family Immigration History Center
Search Ellis Island passenger records and genealogy resources.
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American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Introduction to the activities of the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. News about programs and activities, online presentations of multiformat collections and other resources to facilitate folklife projects and study.
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American Presidency Project
Extensive online collection of papers, speeches (audio and video) and documents relating to United States presidential elections and presidents --- the Project was created and is updated & maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Ameristat
Covers U.S. population data.
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A-Z List of Subjects - U.S. Census Bureau
Statistical goldmine for topics ranging from African American Businesses to Demographic Profiles. The data is pulled primarily from Bureau publications, i.e., the American Community Survey, the Decennial Census and American Fact Finder, as well as the Bureau's Technical Papers.
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Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
"BEA's economic statistics, which provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the U.S. economy, are key ingredients in critical decisions affecting monetary policy, tax and budget projections and business investment plans. The cornerstone of BEA's statistics is the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), which feature the estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) and related measures."
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
Covers crimes, justice, trends in crime, federal investigations and prosecutions, felony convictions in state courts, corrections, capital punishment trends and expenditure trends.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Preformatted and customizable data on all aspects of employment and work.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics Detailed Statistics
Includes Employment & Unemployment, Prices & Living Conditions, Compensation & Working Conditions, Productivity & Technology and Regional Resources
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word.
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Census 2000
Just that, in all its variations. Good comparison data with 1990.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
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CIA World Fact Book
Latest data on more than 200 countries - includes maps
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Community Health Data
To use the data you must have SAS; they provide a download on the site.
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Community Health Profiles
12 page overviews for an area comprised of 2-4 neighborhoods. If you can't tell which report covers your neighborhood by the names, there is a zip code search that will help locate the appropriate one.
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COOL: College Opportunities Online Locator
From the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, this website allows users to search and compare profiles of over 7,000 colleges and universities in the United States.
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Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
These documents are collected from various federal web sites including the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Many pages include not only the full text of these important documents, but facsimile copies so users may experience the feel of the original material.
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Economic Programs from the Census
"The Economic Census provides a detailed portrait of the Nation's economy once every five years, from the national to the local level. The 1997 Economic Census covers nearly all of the U.S. economy in its basic collection of establishment statistics. There also are several related programs, including statistics on minority and women-owned businesses. Censuses of agriculture and governments are conducted at the same time. The first reports from the 2002 Economic Census are now available
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Economic Report of the President - Statistical Tables
National level time series data available for download as Excel files.
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ELaws
Focuses on employment laws and regulations designed for workers and small businesses by the Dept. of Labor.
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EPA Global Warming Site
Covers everything you need to know about global warming and its consequences.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The very heart of FBI operations lies in investigations--which serve, as their mission states, "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States."
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Crime in the U.S.
"Compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data." Also available are reports on Hate Crime Statistics, white collar crime, and detailed victim data.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Hate Crime Statistics
Each year's edition of Hate Crime Statistics presents data regarding incidents, offenses, victims, and offenders in reported crimes that were motivated in whole or in part by a bias against the victim's perceived race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
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FedStats
Provides easy access to a full range of statistics and other information by more than 70 Federal agencies.
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FirstGov - Laws and Regulations
A free site offering links to historic, and current legal and regulatory web sites, federal forms and Freedom of Information (FOIA) materials. Two links worth noting are Legislation Relating to September 11 and Executive Orders.
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Forum on Child and Family Statistics
This website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education. The Forum fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of Federal efforts to collect and report data on conditions and trends for children and families.
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GATEWAY to Educational Materials
Hundreds of lesson plans, curriculum units, other resources from U.S. Department of Education.
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New York City Dept. of Education
This site provides, among other things, resources and information for students, parents, and teachers and links to information of staff and administration, districts & schools, and statistical summaries.
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US Department of Education
US Department of Education establishes policies on financial aid for education, and distributes as well as monitors those funds. ED.gov collects data on America's schools and disseminates research. It is also the official government Web site provides information about the No Child Left Behind Act, an "education law signed by President Bush on January 8, 2002." The site includes an overview of the legislation, FAQs, statistics, progress updates, news releases, and resources for parents. It is also searchable from the U.S. Department of Education.
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Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
The Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized. The Yearbook also presents data on immigration law enforcement actions, including alien apprehensions.
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.
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ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus
New!! The ARTFL Project and MICRA, Inc. are developing Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G & C. Merriam Co., 1913, edited by Noah Porter).
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Dictionary of Slang
A monster online dictionary of the rich colourful language we call slang... all from a British perspective, with new slang added every month. If you are unable to immediately find the term you are looking for, try the slang search. A short essay giving an outline of the parameters of this site and brief information on slang can be accessed on the introduction page.
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Oxford English Dictionary
"The ultimate authority on the English language" allows you to find the word or phrase you need in the full text of the Dictionary, or in selected areas such as quotations or etymologies.
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Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online Premium is a database consisting of over 170 reference books published by Oxford University Press in 24 subject areas covering all areas of knowledge. The database contains entries that are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels.
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Encyclopedia of Psychology
The encyclopedia of psychology is a website that provides links to other webpages on various topics in psychology such as career, history, people and theories.
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Encyclopedia of Television
The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It
also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A rich resource of several hundred online versions of print reference books divided into 18 subject categories: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, General Reference, History, Information & Publishing, Law, Library Science, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, the Nation & the World, Religion, Science, Social Science and Technology. The Advanced Search option offers the choice to further limit search results by three target audiences, Academic, Children's and
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy was founded in 1995 to provide detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The IEP is free of charge, non-profit and "A Peer-Reviewed Resource."
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Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online Premium is a database consisting of over 170 reference books published by Oxford University Press in 24 subject areas covering all areas of knowledge. The database contains entries that are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels.
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300 Women Who Changed the World
Biographies of 300 women who changed the world, and whose contributions have endured through the ages, from Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Africabib.org
Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.
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African American Women's History
Uncover the history of African American women: the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights. Biographies, organizations, events and movements.
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Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank contains millions of magazine citations. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.
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Early Minority Psychologists
Although the majority of psychologists early in this century were white males, it is important to note that a number of African-Americans and women contributed significantly to the field.
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In the First Person
In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes, those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world.
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Nobel Prize
A list of Nobel Prize winners, including biographical essays.
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Twayne Authors Series
Twayne's Author Series is essentially a collection of online books of literary analysis and criticism covering nearly 600 authors. While most of the authors covered are novelists and poets, many are philosophers, historians, scientists, or persons involved in other disciplines. Also included are books on specific genres or on specific works of literature. Note that this database does not include the text of works by the authors being analyzed. The database is appropriate for users at all lev
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A+ Research and Writing
This website from the Internet Public Library provides a step by step guide for researching and writing a paper.
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APA Publication Manual
The American Psychological Association (APA) Manual is most often used in the social sciences. It's available in abbreviated form at this website from Bedford St. Martin's Press.
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Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style is most often used in history. It's available in abbreviated form at this website from Bedford St. Martin's Press.
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Chicago Manual of Style: Documenting Sources
The citation style used for history.
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Citation Machine
Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
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Citing Music Sources in Your Essay and Bibliography
Prepared by the Music Library, University of Western Ontario Library.
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CUNY WriteSite
CUNY's online writing lab offers instructional support in grammar and style, help with each stage of the writing process, and tips for writing in different disciplines.
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Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
... or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. Concise evaluation criteria for websites, with many examples, from New Mexico State University.
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Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
Kate L. Turabian's manual (revised by John Grossman and Alice Bennett), is Chicago style for students. It's available in abbreviated form from Concordia University Libraries' website.
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RefWorks -- Group:RWCityC
RefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
Access via Databases A to Z
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Black Studies Links
A list of online catalogs, collections, programs, web sites and hbcu's complied by AFAS
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Brooklyn Public Library
Catalog of the BPL collection.
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word.
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CCNY E Journals A-Z
Link to over 55,000 online journal titles available to the City College community.
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Columbia University Libraries
The library catalog for Columbia University.
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CUNY+ Library Catalog
CUNY + is the online catalog for the holdings of all CUNY libraries. Search an individual library catalog or search the holdings of all CUNY libraries.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches the Web for articles, books, and other scholarly materials in many different disciplines. Most searches return an assortment of citations, abstracts, and links to full text. To link Google Scholar to the City College Library's full text offerings, click "Scholar Preferences," type "City College," and click "Find Library." Then check the box next to "City College - Find fulltext at CCNY."
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Library of Congress
Search the library catalog.
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Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids
Finding aids of the Manuscript & Archival collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Collections include personal and family papers, organizational records, and miscellaneous manuscripts. These holdings focus on the history, literature, politics, and culture of peoples of African descent in the Americas and Africa, primarily in the twentieth century. The collections are strongest in the areas of the performing arts, women's studies, Harlem, civil rights and post-civil rights movements, cultural and political movements, African-American religion, and Haitian, Caribbean and Central African history.
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METRO: The Metropolitan New York Library Council
Use the METRO Member Directory to:
* Find addresses, phone numbers, URLs and OCLC symbols for libraries in our service area
* Identify library contacts from throughout New York City and Westchester County
* Get details about a library's collections
* Find out if a library participates in the photocopy exchange and referral card programs
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New York Public Library
Search the catalogs of the branch libraries and research libraries.
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New York State Library
Since its establishment in 1818 the State Library has been a repository for the official publications of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, commissions, public authorities, and other agencies of the State government.
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New York University BobCat
NYU Bobst Library, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU Real Estate Institute, NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Brooklyn Historical Society, The New-York Historical Society, New York School of Interior Design, Cooper Union, New School University, Parsons School of Design, Mannes College of Music.
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Queens Library
Search the catalog of the Queens Public Library from any page of the website.
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WorldCat
WorldCat provides complete bibliographic information on nearly all materials published in all subject areas in all languages. It draws its information from the library holdings of thousands of libraries around the world. Included in the database are books, periodicals (but not individual articles), sound and video recordings, electronic resources, dissertations and theses.
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Worldcat.org
Search for an item in libraries near you.
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1862: 09/22 - Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
"In July 1862, President Lincoln read his 'preliminary proclamation' to his Cabinet, then decided to wait for a Union military victory to issue it. On September 22, 1862, following the victory at Antietam, he signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, formally alerting the Confederacy of his intention to free all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states. One hundred days later ... President Abraham Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation."
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1863: 01/01 - Emancipation Proclamation (U.S.)
"President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." --- link to images of the original document, a transcript of the Proclamation and an audio interview with former slave Charlie Smith discussing life after the Emancipation Proclamation
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1948: 07/26 - Executive Order 9981: Truman Desegregates the Armed Forces
"On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military." --- background information, image of the original document and link to a full-text transcript --- site maintained by the U.S. National Archives
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1957: 09/23 - Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas)
"This executive order of September 23, 1957, signed by President Dwight Eisenhower, sent Federal troops to maintain order and peace while the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR, took place." --- background information, image of original document and link to a transcript --- site maintained by the U.S. National Archives
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Africa Focus Project
An image and sound database from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Search by collection, subject or country. Image collections include artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion and women. Sound collections include greetings, rites and ceremonies, songs and singing and drums.
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African American Mosaic
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded
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African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
AHDS Visual Arts is based at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. AHDS Visual Arts is one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), and as such acts as The AHDS Centre for Visual Arts.
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African Voices
A Smithsonian Institution permanent exhibition, including "historical and contemporary objects from the Museum's collections, as well as commissioned sculptures, textiles, and pottery. Video interactives and sound stations provide selections from contemporary interviews, literature, proverbs, prayers, folk tales, songs, and oral epics." Divided into sections: History, Themes, Focus Gallery, and Learning Center, with a list of web links.
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African Writing Systems
Writing Systems are components of knowledge systems. By definition, they are philosophical because they assist in synthesizing ideas, thoughts, and deeds through the use of signs, symbols or other pictorial renderings. Specifically, writing is a means by which people record, objectify, and organize their activities and thoughts through images and graphs . Writing is a means to inscribe meanings that are expressed through sounds. Further, writing provides an aspect of historicality.
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Africana & Black History
Items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
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African-American Women: Online Archival Collections
Includes scanned images of letters from black women in the 19th century.
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Africans in the Americas: Celebrating the African Heritage
A collaborative project of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the General Service Society, Explores the largest known intact colonial African cemetery in America, the African Burial Ground, discovered in 1991 during construction of a federal office building in Lower Manhattan.
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American Memory Collection
This is a multimedia collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently 9 collections under Architecture & Landscape such as American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920, which offers 2,800 lantern slides representing an historical view of American buildings and landscapes, The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) from 1933 to the present, and the Gottscho-Schleisner Colle
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American Slave Narratives
This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
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Brown v Board of Ed
A compact site created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic decision. You can find first person materials here.
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Documenting the American South
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes full-text digital versions of literary works, Confederate documents, school books, letters, diaries and more.
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Duke University Music Library
Includes links to the school's significant "Historic American Sheet Music" collection and to "Electronic journals and newsletters" among other features.
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Frederick Douglass Papers - Library of Congress Collection
"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the 19th century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer and publisher ... approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images) relating to Douglass' life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895."
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Online Exhibitions
Showcasing the collections of the Institute, this site offers images from 225 years of American history, and links to popular articles from the "History Now" journal, including 'Songs of the Civil Rights Movement.'
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Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
a history education portfolio that has been produced by the Educational Programs unit of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library.
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Harlem History
Harlem History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods.
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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Great Migration, from the Western migration to the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Includes 25,000 pages of texts, rare visual materials, maps, contemporary photojournalism, and lesson plans.
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
On the campus of Ferris State University the one-room Jim Crow museum houses a 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts and memorabilia gathered, catalogued and donated by Dr. David Pilgrim, professor of Sociology at the University. The artifacts include ordinary household items -- sheet music, ashtrays, children's books, notepads, fishing lures, salt and pepper shakers, postcards, dolls, and matchbooks. Also digitized images and video clips of racist cartoons and sterotypes.
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Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
Lest We Forget documents and interprets the obstacle-ridden but life-affirming experiences of enslaved African peoples in the Americas, and examines the extraordinary capacity of human beings to confront and transcend oppression, and to triumph over state-sanctioned evil and injustice.
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Library of Congress American Memory Web Site
Digitizes the distinctive, historical Americana materials from the Library's collections to make them available online to users worldwide. These materials include photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.
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Library of Congress photos
More than 3,000 photos from two popular collections are available on the Library of Congress Flickr page. Only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist are included.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's Resources
Includes information on use of its guides, reference aids and finding aids. Some collections include digital images.
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Malcolm X: Search for Truth
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, is pleased to present Malcolm X: A Search for Truth, an exhibition in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. The exhibition is based in part on the collection of personal and professional papers and memorabilia of Malcolm X that was rescued from auction in 2002 and placed on deposit at the Schomburg Center by the Shabazz family.
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New York Public Library Digital Archive
Provides access to over 363,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage poster, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The NYPL Digital Gallery will provide free and open online access to more than 400,000 digital images on black culture and experience, history and literature, New York city and state, performing arts, prints and photographs as well as science and technology.
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Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930
Biographies, discographies and photos of early jazzmen and women (before 1930, New Orleans). Video clips and sound examples from early recordings. Edited Scott Alexander.
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Selected Civil War Photographs
"The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men." --- Site maintained by the Library of Congress
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Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
An online collection of books and pamphlets published between 1772 and 1889 concerning the experiences of Africans and African slaves in both American and British courts --- "Among the voices heard are those of some of the defendants and plaintiffs themselves as well as those of abolitionists, presidents, politicians, slave owners, fugitive and free territory slaves, lawyers and judges and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court." --- site maintained by the American Memory Collection, the Library of Congress
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The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992
Before Columbus, before the "Americas," indigenous peoples organized in communities, nations and empires had resided in this hemisphere for over 40,000 years. According to recent scholarship, visitors from Africa, Asia and Europe arrived on these shores long before 1492.
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The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University
The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University has gathered and illuminated new research about EL Hajj Malik el-Shabazz using web-based multimedia. The site is organized into three sections: chronological journey of his life, collection of digital media featuring video interviews with people he knew, as well as government documents and archival footage.
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The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
a 70th Anniversary commemoration exhibition was presented in three venues at the Schomburg Center--the Exhibition Hall, the Latimer Edison Gallery and the American Negro Theater. It presents a comprehensive survey of the development of the Center's collections since the death of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1938) and explores the Center's role as the premier public research library in the world devoted to documenting and preserving the histories and cultures of people of African descent worldwide.
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1850: 09/18 - The Fugitive Slave Act
" ... when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States, has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States, the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due, or his, her, or their agent or attorney, duly authorized, by power of attorney ... may pursue and reclaim such fugitive person" --- site maintained by the Avalon Project, Yale Law School
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1863: 01/01 - Emancipation Proclamation (U.S.)
"President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." --- link to images of the original document, a transcript of the Proclamation and an audio interview with former slave Charlie Smith discussing life after the Emancipation Proclamation
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1865: 12/06 - Thirteenth Amendment: Abolition of Slavery
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." --- site maintained by Cornell University Law School
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1870: 02/03 - Fifteenth Amendment: Abolition of Suffrage Qualifications on Basis of Race
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." --- full-text with annotations --- site maintained by FindLaw
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1896: 05/18 - Plessy v. Ferguson
In this 1896 Supreme Court decision, the Court ruled that as long as separate facilities for Blacks were not inferior, that such separate facilities were constitutional. The Majority Opinion ended with the words: "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane." ---
Justice Harlen wrote a famous dissent to the Majority Opinion in which he said: "in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is
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1915: 12/04 - My View of Segregation Laws
Booker T. Washington --- "It is probably useless to discuss the legality of segregation; that is a matter which the courts will finally pass upon, It is reasonable certain, however, that the courts in no section of the country would uphold a case where Negroes sought to segregate white citizens. This is the most convincing argument that segregation is regarded as illegal, when viewed on its merits by the whole body of our white citizens." --- site maintained by TeachingAmericanHistory.org "A Project of the
Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University [Ohio]"
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1948: 07/26 - Executive Order 9981: Truman Desegregates the Armed Forces
"On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military." --- background information, image of the original document and link to a full-text transcript --- site maintained by the U.S. National Archives
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Africa Focus Project
An image and sound database from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Search by collection, subject or country. Image collections include artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion and women. Sound collections include greetings, rites and ceremonies, songs and singing and drums.
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Africa Research Central
This website contains a database to help you locate archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources - both within and outside Africa. In English and French.
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African American Mosaic
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises
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African Voices
A Smithsonian Institution permanent exhibition, including "historical and contemporary objects from the Museum's collections, as well as commissioned sculptures, textiles, and pottery. Video interactives and sound stations provide selections from contemporary interviews, literature, proverbs, prayers, folk tales, songs, and oral epics." Divided into sections: History, Themes, Focus Gallery, and Learning Center, with a list of web links.
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Africana & Black History
Items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
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African-American Women: Online Archival Collections
Includes scanned images of letters from black women in the 19th century.
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Africans in the Americas: Celebrating the African Heritage
A collaborative project of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the General Service Society, Explores the largest known intact colonial African cemetery in America, the African Burial Ground, discovered in 1991 during construction of a federal office building in Lower Manhattan.
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America's Jazz Heritage
"America's Jazz Heritage is a ten-year initiative to research, preserve and present the history of jazz through exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs at the Smithsonian and across the nation." --- site maintained by the Smithsonian
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American Slave Narratives
This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.
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Black Drama
The Black Drama database contains the full text of nearly 1200 plays by over 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The database is organized by title, author/playwright, subjects, characters, theaters and theatrical companies, and date of first performance. Additional resources such as playbills, costume design notes, articles, reviews, and interviews are available for many plays. The database is appropriate for students
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Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
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Brown v Board of Ed
A compact site created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic decision. You can find first person materials here.
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Documenting the American South
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes full-text digital versions of literary works, Confederate documents, school books, letters, diaries and more.
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Famous Trials
Resource maintained by Professor Douglas Linder, University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School. Trials included range from the Trial of Socrates (399 B.C.) and the Mutiny on the Bounty Court Martial (1792) to the impeachment trials of U.S. Presidents Andrew Johnson (1878) and William J. Clinton (1999).
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Frederick Douglass Papers - Library of Congress Collection
"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the 19th century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer and publisher ... approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images) relating to Douglass' life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895."
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Geography of Slavery in Virginia
Presents full transcriptions and images of all runaway and captured ads for slaves and servants placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. The project offers a number of other documents related to slaves, servants, and slaveholders, including court records, other newspaper notices, slaveholder correspondence, and assorted literature about slavery and indentured servitude.
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Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
a history education portfolio that has been produced by the Educational Programs unit of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library.
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Harlem History
Harlem History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods.
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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Great Migration, from the Western migration to the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Includes 25,000 pages of texts, rare visual materials, maps, contemporary photojournalism, and lesson plans.
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
On the campus of Ferris State University the one-room Jim Crow museum houses a 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts and memorabilia gathered, catalogued and donated by Dr. David Pilgrim, professor of Sociology at the University. The artifacts include ordinary household items -- sheet music, ashtrays, children's books, notepads, fishing lures, salt and pepper shakers, postcards, dolls, and matchbooks. Also digitized images and video clips of racist cartoons and sterotypes.
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Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
Lest We Forget documents and interprets the obstacle-ridden but life-affirming experiences of enslaved African peoples in the Americas, and examines the extraordinary capacity of human beings to confront and transcend oppression, and to triumph over state-sanctioned evil and injustice.
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Malcolm X: Search for Truth
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, is pleased to present Malcolm X: A Search for Truth, an exhibition in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. The exhibition is based in part on the collection of personal and professional papers and memorabilia of Malcolm X that was rescued from auction in 2002 and placed on deposit at the Schomburg Center by the Shabazz family.
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Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids
Finding aids of the Manuscript & Archival collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Collections include personal and family papers, organizational records, and miscellaneous manuscripts. These holdings focus on the history, literature, politics, and culture of peoples of African descent in the Americas and Africa, primarily in the twentieth century. The collections are strongest in the areas of the performing arts, women's studies, Harlem, civil rights and post-civil rights movements, cultural and political movements, African-American religion, and Haitian, Caribbean and Central African history.
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The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992
Before Columbus, before the "Americas," indigenous peoples organized in communities, nations and empires had resided in this hemisphere for over 40,000 years. According to recent scholarship, visitors from Africa, Asia and Europe arrived on these shores long before 1492.
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The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University
The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University has gathered and illuminated new research about EL Hajj Malik el-Shabazz using web-based multimedia. The site is organized into three sections: chronological journey of his life, collection of digital media featuring video interviews with people he knew, as well as government documents and archival footage.
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The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
a 70th Anniversary commemoration exhibition was presented in three venues at the Schomburg Center--the Exhibition Hall, the Latimer Edison Gallery and the American Negro Theater. It presents a comprehensive survey of the development of the Center's collections since the death of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1938) and explores the Center's role as the premier public research library in the world devoted to documenting and preserving the histories and cultures of people of African descent worldwide.
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Using Primary Sources on the Web
Provides students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online. The site includes links to major collections of primary sources (both text and images), metasites with additional sources and information on citing these sources.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
"Organized around more than 2,300 documents, more than 800 images and almost 800 links to other websites, the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers and scholars to study American History." --- access limited to the CCNY Community
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Academic Info: African American History
Find links to directories, leaders, slavery, the civil war, civil rights movement, jazz, online publications, museums, libraries, teaching materials and other resources. Most links are annotated and many include attributions.
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Africabib.org
Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.
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African American Mosaic
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded
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African American Women's History
Uncover the history of African American women: the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights. Biographies, organizations, events and movements.
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Africana & Black History
Items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
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African-American Women: Online Archival Collections
Includes scanned images of letters from black women in the 19th century.
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Africans in the Americas: Celebrating the African Heritage
A collaborative project of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the General Service Society, Explores the largest known intact colonial African cemetery in America, the African Burial Ground, discovered in 1991 during construction of a federal office building in Lower Manhattan.
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AfriClassical.com: African Heritage in Classical Music
Information about more than 50 classical composers and instrumentalists, going back to the 16th century. Includes more than 100 audio clips and a blog. Most of the site's pages are available in both English and French.
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Celebrating Black History Month
The Black History Month free resource site
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Christine's Genealogy Website
News relating to African American genealogy and history
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Online Exhibitions
Showcasing the collections of the Institute, this site offers images from 225 years of American history, and links to popular articles from the "History Now" journal, including 'Songs of the Civil Rights Movement.'
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
On the campus of Ferris State University the one-room Jim Crow museum houses a 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts and memorabilia gathered, catalogued and donated by Dr. David Pilgrim, professor of Sociology at the University. The artifacts include ordinary household items -- sheet music, ashtrays, children's books, notepads, fishing lures, salt and pepper shakers, postcards, dolls, and matchbooks. Also digitized images and video clips of racist cartoons and sterotypes.
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The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992
Before Columbus, before the "Americas," indigenous peoples organized in communities, nations and empires had resided in this hemisphere for over 40,000 years. According to recent scholarship, visitors from Africa, Asia and Europe arrived on these shores long before 1492.
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The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
a 70th Anniversary commemoration exhibition was presented in three venues at the Schomburg Center--the Exhibition Hall, the Latimer Edison Gallery and the American Negro Theater. It presents a comprehensive survey of the development of the Center's collections since the death of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1938) and explores the Center's role as the premier public research library in the world devoted to documenting and preserving the histories and cultures of people of African descent worldwide.
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises
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Academic Info: African American History
Find links to directories, leaders, slavery, the civil war, civil rights movement, jazz, online publications, museums, libraries, teaching materials and other resources. Most links are annotated and many include attributions.
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Africa Research Central
This website contains a database to help you locate archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources - both within and outside Africa. In English and French.
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African American Collections
Web sites of African American Special collections in historical societies, colleges and universities and institutions throughout the U.S.
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African American Film and Television at the UCLA Television & Film Archive
Motion picture and television collections at the UCLA Film and Television Archive feature titles made both by and about African-Americans. These films and programs run from the silent era to modern situation comedies. They provide a unique opportunity not only to examine the history of how blacks have been represented in mainstream media, but also to view a considerable range of productions by African-Americans.
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African American Mosaic
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded
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African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
AHDS Visual Arts is based at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. AHDS Visual Arts is one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), and as such acts as The AHDS Centre for Visual Arts.
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American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Introduction to the activities of the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. News about programs and activities, online presentations of multiformat collections and other resources to facilitate folklife projects and study.
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Black Film Promotional Materials Collection at Washington University in St. Louis
The Black Film Promotional Materials Collection comprises some 2,700 posters, programs, photographs, advertisements, press kits and other materials used to promote more than 400 films between 1915-1980. The collection also includes materials for films made with all-African-American casts by small, independent companies, including a number of exceptionally rare pieces from the silent films of the 1920s. Nearly all prominent African-American actors, directors and writers of several decades appear
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Black Seminoles' Long March to Freedom
CCNY Libraries online version of an exhibit displayed during Black History Month, February 1998, to illuminate their history and their struggle for freedom, dignity and self-determination.
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Brown v. Board of Education: National Historic Site (Topeka, Kansas)
"The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. ... They were teachers, secretaries, welders, ministers and students who simply wanted to be treated equally." --- site maintained by the National Park Service
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Online Exhibitions
Showcasing the collections of the Institute, this site offers images from 225 years of American history, and links to popular articles from the "History Now" journal, including 'Songs of the Civil Rights Movement.'
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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Great Migration, from the Western migration to the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Includes 25,000 pages of texts, rare visual materials, maps, contemporary photojournalism, and lesson plans.
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
On the campus of Ferris State University the one-room Jim Crow museum houses a 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts and memorabilia gathered, catalogued and donated by Dr. David Pilgrim, professor of Sociology at the University. The artifacts include ordinary household items -- sheet music, ashtrays, children's books, notepads, fishing lures, salt and pepper shakers, postcards, dolls, and matchbooks. Also digitized images and video clips of racist cartoons and sterotypes.
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Library of Congress American Memory Web Site
Digitizes the distinctive, historical Americana materials from the Library's collections to make them available online to users worldwide. These materials include photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.
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Nat Holman: The Man, His Legacy and CCNY
Regarded as basketball's greatest player of his day with indefinable court savvy, Nat Holman shared his knowledge and taught the game of basketball to young men at the City College of New York.
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Separate Cinema
The Separate Cinema Archive is a rare collection of over 25,000 film posters, lobby cards and photographs that chronicle the Black film industry.
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African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
From the Collections of Brown University --- "This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period." --- site maintained by the Library of Congress
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African Music Encyclopedia
Information about recordings of African music, indexed by country and artist. Includes glossary and list of sources for purchase.
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AfriClassical.com: African Heritage in Classical Music
Information about more than 50 classical composers and instrumentalists, going back to the 16th century. Includes more than 100 audio clips and a blog. Most of the site's pages are available in both English and French.
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Afrocentric Voices in "Classical Music"
Biographies of classical vocalists, performers and composers; lists of research centers that house special collections of resources by and about African American musicians; and timeline
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Art of the Negro Spiritual
Site designed by Randye Jones, soprano and researcher.
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California Sheet Music Project
A virtual library of some 2,000 items of nineteenth-century California sheet music. Images of covers and text together with searchable records of public domain repertoire.
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Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) at Columbia College Chicago documents, collects, preserves, and disseminates information about black music in all parts of the world and promotes understanding of the common roots of the music, musicians, and composers of the global African diaspora.
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African American Film and Television at the UCLA Television & Film Archive
Motion picture and television collections at the UCLA Film and Television Archive feature titles made both by and about African-Americans. These films and programs run from the silent era to modern situation comedies. They provide a unique opportunity not only to examine the history of how blacks have been represented in mainstream media, but also to view a considerable range of productions by African-Americans.
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African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
AHDS Visual Arts is based at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. AHDS Visual Arts is one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), and as such acts as The AHDS Centre for Visual Arts.
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Black Film Center/Archive
Website for a repository of films and related materials by and about African
Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience. Early Black Images
1890's to 1900 link offers short online films and the Helpful Links page is worth looking out.
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Black Film Promotional Materials Collection at Washington University in St. Louis
The Black Film Promotional Materials Collection comprises some 2,700 posters, programs, photographs, advertisements, press kits and other materials used to promote more than 400 films between 1915-1980. The collection also includes materials for films made with all-African-American casts by small, independent companies, including a number of exceptionally rare pieces from the silent films of the 1920s. Nearly all prominent African-American actors, directors and writers of several decades appear
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Black Hollywood Education & Resource Center
Founded in 1996, the Black Hollywood Education and Resources Center, a nonprofit is designed to advocate, educate, research, develop, and preserve the history, and the future, of blacks in the film and television industries.
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
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Documentryfilms.net
Information on Documentaries and film festivals.
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Early Cinema
Aims to provide an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures and the
developments which helped shape cinema as we know it today. Not comprehensive, it concentrates on the major events in cinema's history encouraging further reading and research. There is a useful timeline, technology portion, and A to Z section.
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Langston Black Film Festival
This annual event provides provocative films from independent Black filmmakers and works about the African American experience. The festival features panel discussions, screenplay readings, matinee screenings for middle and high school youth and in-depth chats with filmmakers, industry professionals and local community leaders. The Festival is run by a core of committed community volunteers under the direction of Jacqueline Moscou, Langston Hughes' Artistic Director. The annual event is actually the culmination of a year?s worth of community collateral-building through a series of smaller events designed to provide audiences with unique cinematic and filmmaking opportunities that result in an annual community-wide film festival held at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center.
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Pan African Film & Arts Festivals
Established in 1992, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression. It is PAFF's goal to present and showcase the broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes
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Separate Cinema
The Separate Cinema Archive is a rare collection of over 25,000 film posters, lobby cards and photographs that chronicle the Black film industry.
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Africabib.org
Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.
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African American Collections
Web sites of African American Special collections in historical societies, colleges and universities and institutions throughout the U.S.
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New York Landmarks Conservancy
The New York Landmarks Conservancy is dedicated to preserving, enhancing, revitalizing, and reusing architecturally significant buildings in New York City and State.
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The sites under this heading fall into two categories: those which provide statistical data, and those which deal with the use of such data. Statistical information is used in nearly every area of study, so the sites cover an extremely broad range.
Africa Guide
Covers travel in 51 African countires. Includes data on climate, currencies, visa requirements, transporation and accommodations, favorite destinations, sports, and national festivals.
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Africabib.org
Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.
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American FactFinder - U.S. Census Bureau
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data
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Billboard Online
Billboard Online is like its print version with charts in numerous categories (pop, jazz, rap, country, Latin, etc.). Also has news, features, Tunes on TV (a listing of musicians that are on TV in a given week), a new release roundup and a free search tool for artists' performance itineraries.
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Census Finder
Census Finder is a tool designed to help locate websites that offer free census records online.
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CIA World Fact Book
Latest data on more than 200 countries - includes maps
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College and University Rankings
At this site, from the Education & Social Science Library at the University of Illinois, you will find links to many college and university ranking services, along with cautionary notes and a discussion of the ongoing controversy over rankings.
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County and City Data Books
Electronic versions of the 1988, 1994, and 2000 County and City Data Books with the option of creating your own custom printouts and/or customized data subsets.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Crime in the U.S.
"Compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data." Also available are reports on Hate Crime Statistics, white collar crime, and detailed victim data.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Hate Crime Statistics
Each year's edition of Hate Crime Statistics presents data regarding incidents, offenses, victims, and offenders in reported crimes that were motivated in whole or in part by a bias against the victim's perceived race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
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Infoshare
Infoshare is a compilation of population-related statistical information, including demographic data, socio-economic data, and health statistics. Currently, the most complete data are available for New York City and State, but information about other regions in the US is also available, and more is being added on a regular basis. Content is based on data obtained from local, state, and federal government agencies. This database is appropriate for students and researchers at all levels.
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NYCdata
This compendium of data, facts and figures over a wide range of fields quantifies many aspects of New York City and, in some cases, the metropolitan region. From the Weissman Center for International Business at Baruch College.
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Social Explorer
Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps. The database contains hundreds of interactive data maps of the United States. From Queens College.
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1857: 03/06 - Dred Scott v. Sanford
"We think they [people of African ancestry] are . . . not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. . . . Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, speaking for the majority" --- background information; full-text of the majority opinion; excerpts from the minority opinion; suggested lesson plans ---
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Avoiding Plagiarism: Links for Students
Resources and advice on ways to avoid plagiarism to share with your students.
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CUNY WriteSite
CUNY's online writing lab offers instructional support in grammar and style, help with each stage of the writing process, and tips for writing in different disciplines.
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Educators Reference Desk
More than 2,000 lesson plans, education theory practices, research, and links
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Library Information Literacy Advisory Council
Information literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information to become independent life-long learners. This CUNY website features resources on information literacy standards, assignments, assessment, and advocacy.
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NoodleTools: Information Literacy: Search Strategies
This presents a list of approximately 30 kinds of information-seeking questions with accompanying suggested search strategies. Geared for K-12 level, but interesting.
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TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
An interactive tutorial to help hone your information literacy skills for more effective research, sponsored by the University of Texas.
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"I will be heard!" Abolitionism in America
From Cornell University's anti-slavery and Civil War collections, this online exhibition explores the history of slavery, resistance, and abolition from the 1700s through 1865.
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Abolition and Slavery Links
Web sites on abolition and slavery.
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Abolition as a social movement
Selections from the African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture exhibit. This site provides a sample of the digitized primary sources drawn from the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
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Abolition Movement and the Press
This site includes speeches, letters, cartoons, graphics, interviews, and articles relating to the abolition movement drawn from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. These documents can be browsed by author, date, subject and document type.
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Abolition, Antislavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy
This web site provides digitized reproductions of primary sources drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress. The site includes maps, letters, articles, photographs legal documents and published material in books and pamphlets.
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Abolitionism 1830-1850
Text and tif images of abolition documents
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American Abolitionism
This site offers a history of the abolition movement in America, an understanding of slavery, a map with links, biographies of abolitionist, primary source documents, bibliography, links to abolition societies, and an online discussion form to debate the issue of slavery.
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Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture exhibit. This site provides a sample of the digitized primary sources drawn from the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
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Flight to Freedom
An interactive web site simulating a slave escaping from slavery, attempting to make it to the Northern U.S. or Canadian border with as many of his family members as possible.
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Fugitive Slave Law, Growing Sectionalism, Militant Abolition, and The Book That Made This Great War
This site provides digitized reproductions of primary sources drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress.
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Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture exhibit. This site provides a sample of the digitized primary sources drawn from the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
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Resources on Slavery
Extensive bibliography on Slavery at Long Island University's C.W. Post Library
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Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Over 10,000 digitized images including pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, newsletters of local and regional anti-slavery societies, sermons, essays, and arguments for and against slavery donated to Cornell University in 1870 by American abolitionist Reverend Samuel J. May.
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The UN Commemorates the Bicentennial of the British Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
On March 26, 2007 the United Nations commemorated the bicentennial of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by Great Britain. After having deported about three million African men, women, and children to the Americas, the United Kingdom had passed a law on March 25, 1807 making the slave trade illegal.
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See also: African Union (AU) and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) --- Boer War (1899-1902) --- Individual Countries
Africa Focus Project
An image and sound database from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Search by collection, subject or country. Image collections include artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion and women. Sound collections include greetings, rites and ceremonies, songs and singing and drums.
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Africa Guide
Covers travel in 51 African countires. Includes data on climate, currencies, visa requirements, transporation and accommodations, favorite destinations, sports, and national festivals.
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Africa Online Digital Library (AODL)
"MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the emerging best practices of the American digital library community and apply them in an African context."
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Africa Research Central
This website contains a database to help you locate archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources - both within and outside Africa. In English and French.
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Africa South of the Sahara
Selected Internet Resources prepared by Karen Fung of Stanford University, which can be browsed by country or topic.
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Africa: Country Pages
links to information about African countries --- site created and maintained by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
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Africabib.org
Africabib Includes African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography, DISA: Digital Imaging Project of South Africa. South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990.
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African Music Encyclopedia
Information about recordings of African music, indexed by country and artist. Includes glossary and list of sources for purchase.
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African Voices
A Smithsonian Institution permanent exhibition, including "historical and contemporary objects from the Museum's collections, as well as commissioned sculptures, textiles, and pottery. Video interactives and sound stations provide selections from contemporary interviews, literature, proverbs, prayers, folk tales, songs, and oral epics." Divided into sections: History, Themes, Focus Gallery, and Learning Center, with a list of web links.
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AfriClassical.com: African Heritage in Classical Music
Information about more than 50 classical composers and instrumentalists, going back to the 16th century. Includes more than 100 audio clips and a blog. Most of the site's pages are available in both English and French.
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Internet African History Sourcebook
Links to documents and other web sites, clearly arranged by topic and location by Paul Halsall of Fordham University.
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Overview of U.S. Foreign Assistance to Africa
"U.S. foreign assistance to Africa is directed to helping African governments, institutions and African-based organizations incorporate good governance principles and innovative approaches to health, education, economic growth, agriculture and environment programs. USAID programs and activities in Africa in these sectors aim to ensure that development assistance supports the overall goal of transformational diplomacy-to help build sustained and well governed states that respond to the needs
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Story of Africa
""So far the evidence that we have in the world points to Africa as the Cradle of Humankind." --- A production of the BBC World Service, this site covers the story of Africa from the Continent's earliest history to Independence including: West African Kingdoms, Traditional Religions, Slavery, Central African Kingdoms; Africa & Europe (1800-1914) and Africa between the World Wars (1914-1945).
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More than a decade ago in New York City, archaeologists excavated the largest known intact colonial African cemetery in America, the African Burial Ground.
Stretching more than five city blocks, from Broadway beyond Lafayette Street to the east and from Chambers beyond Duane Street to the north, the African Burial Ground was discovered in 1991 during the construction of a federal office building at 290 Broadway.
Africans in the Americas: Celebrating the African Heritage
A collaborative project of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the General Service Society, Explores the largest known intact colonial African cemetery in America, the African Burial Ground, discovered in 1991 during construction of a federal office building in Lower Manhattan.
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Africana & Black History
Items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
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Academic Info: African American History
Find links to directories, leaders, slavery, the civil war, civil rights movement, jazz, online publications, museums, libraries, teaching materials and other resources. Most links are annotated and many include attributions.
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African American Mosaic
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises
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African American Women's History
Uncover the history of African American women: the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights. Biographies, organizations, events and movements.
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African-American Women: Online Archival Collections
Includes scanned images of letters from black women in the 19th century.
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Afrocentric Voices in "Classical Music"
Biographies of classical vocalists, performers and composers; lists of research centers that house special collections of resources by and about African American musicians; and timeline
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All About Jazz
Features reviews, artist biographies, columns, guides, and global news.
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AlternaTime
Includes a number of links relevant for Africana Studies such as the African American History Timeline, the Chronology of the History of Slavery, and the Civil Rights Movement Timeline
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American Slave Narratives
This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.
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Art of the Negro Spiritual
Site designed by Randye Jones, soprano and researcher.
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Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
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Black Drama
The Black Drama database contains the full text of nearly 1200 plays by over 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The database is organized by title, author/playwright, subjects, characters, theaters and theatrical companies, and date of first performance. Additional resources such as playbills, costume design notes, articles, reviews, and interviews are available for many plays. The database is appropriate for students
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Black Film Center/Archive
Website for a repository of films and related materials by and about African
Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience. Early Black Images
1890's to 1900 link offers short online films and the Helpful Links page is worth looking out.
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Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
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BlackPressUSA
Source of news on the African American community. Links include archives to previous weeks of news, a clickable timeline of black media history, submitted letters of concerns and essays and other resources.
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
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Brown v Board of Ed
A compact site created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic decision. You can find first person materials here.
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Celebrating Black History Month
The Black History Month free resource site
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Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) at Columbia College Chicago documents, collects, preserves, and disseminates information about black music in all parts of the world and promotes understanding of the common roots of the music, musicians, and composers of the global African diaspora.
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Digital Librarian: African American
Nearly 100 sites alphabetically arranged, with major index sites highlighted. Covers historical and contemporary materials. Each entry includes brief annotation. Links kept up to date and new sites are noted.
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Early Minority Psychologists
Although the majority of psychologists early in this century were white males, it is important to note that a number of African-Americans and women contributed significantly to the field.
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Frederick Douglass Papers - Library of Congress Collection
"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the 19th century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer and publisher ... approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images) relating to Douglass' life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895."
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Gateway to African-American History
Links to bibliographies, archival and research sites, presidential speeches and full-text versions of government reports and articles.
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Geography of Slavery in Virginia
Presents full transcriptions and images of all runaway and captured ads for slaves and servants placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. The project offers a number of other documents related to slaves, servants, and slaveholders, including court records, other newspaper notices, slaveholder correspondence, and assorted literature about slavery and indentured servitude.
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Hatewatch
This site from the Southern Poverty Law Center monitors the growing and evolving threat of hate group activity on the Internet and provides an online resource for individuals, academics, activists, and the media to keep abreast of, and to combat, online bigotry.
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Race and Ethnicity
Links to approximately 100 individual online resources arranged alphabetically. Point of view includes African Americans and other groups. Find an African American bibliography, primary sources from Douglass, Du Bois and others, personal narratives and theoretical discourses.
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African American Collections
Web sites of African American Special collections in historical societies, colleges and universities and institutions throughout the U.S.
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African American Film and Television at the UCLA Television & Film Archive
Motion picture and television collections at the UCLA Film and Television Archive feature titles made both by and about African-Americans. These films and programs run from the silent era to modern situation comedies. They provide a unique opportunity not only to examine the history of how blacks have been represented in mainstream media, but also to view a considerable range of productions by African-Americans.
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African American Studies Librarians Section
This section of ACRL (a division of ALA) is devoted to librarianship and collection development, to research, resource sharing, archival materials, bibliographic control, electronic information retrieval and oral history as it relates to African Americn studies.
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Africana & Black History
Items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
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Black Cacus of the American Library Association
Founded in 1970, BCALA has a membership of black librarians and persons interestd in promoting librarianship and encouraging active particpation by African Americans in library associations and at all levels of the profession.
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Black Film Center/Archive
Website for a repository of films and related materials by and about African
Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience. Early Black Images
1890's to 1900 link offers short online films and the Helpful Links page is worth looking out.
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Black Film Promotional Materials Collection at Washington University in St. Louis
The Black Film Promotional Materials Collection comprises some 2,700 posters, programs, photographs, advertisements, press kits and other materials used to promote more than 400 films between 1915-1980. The collection also includes materials for films made with all-African-American casts by small, independent companies, including a number of exceptionally rare pieces from the silent films of the 1920s. Nearly all prominent African-American actors, directors and writers of several decades appear
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Black Studies Links
A list of online catalogs, collections, programs, web sites and hbcu's complied by AFAS
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
On the campus of Ferris State University the one-room Jim Crow museum houses a 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts and memorabilia gathered, catalogued and donated by Dr. David Pilgrim, professor of Sociology at the University. The artifacts include ordinary household items -- sheet music, ashtrays, children's books, notepads, fishing lures, salt and pepper shakers, postcards, dolls, and matchbooks. Also digitized images and video clips of racist cartoons and sterotypes.
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Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids
Finding aids of the Manuscript & Archival collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Collections include personal and family papers, organizational records, and miscellaneous manuscripts. These holdings focus on the history, literature, politics, and culture of peoples of African descent in the Americas and Africa, primarily in the twentieth century. The collections are strongest in the areas of the performing arts, women's studies, Harlem, civil rights and post-civil rights movements, cultural and political movements, African-American religion, and Haitian, Caribbean and Central African history.
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Separate Cinema
The Separate Cinema Archive is a rare collection of over 25,000 film posters, lobby cards and photographs that chronicle the Black film industry.
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Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969): A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture
Finding Aid and selected bibliography of the works of Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969), eminent Cuban sociologist, and relevant secondary literature. Other items include handwritten manuscripts, articles cited or used in his publications, illustrations from many different sources, and notebooks of various interview subjects, and recorded data.
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The Mortimore-Singh Guide to Publication in Library and Information Studies
Resources (websites, books and journal articles that offer practical advice for publishing in library and information studies as well as an index of library and information journals) designed to help students, faculty and practitioners in library and information studies find the right outlet for their research. Also includes descriptions and submission guidelines of library and information studies periodicals in print today.
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See also: Brown v. Board of Education
African American Collections
Web sites of African American Special collections in historical societies, colleges and universities and institutions throughout the U.S.
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Black Studies Links
A list of online catalogs, collections, programs, web sites and hbcu's complied by AFAS
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Institute for Research in African-Amerian Studies
The Institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University, founded in July 1993 by Dr. Manning Marable, is an academic resource center that is building a new intellectual tradition upon the rich legacy of Harlem's history. The purposes and activities of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies are grounded within the best scholarship of the black intellectual tradition. The strategic research mission of the Institute is the critical examination of contempora
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Research Guides & Information Literacy
A list of Research guides from academic libraries and information sources complied by AFAS
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The Center for Contemporary Black History
The Center promotes the critical study of black history, culture, and politics within urban America since 1900, with an emphasis on understanding the central role of black intellectuals and public leaders .
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American FactFinder - U.S. Census Bureau
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data
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Community District Profiles (for NYC's Five Boroughs)
Each of the 59 district profiles contains summary data on population size; birth, death and infant mortality rates; land area and land uses; and levels of income support. Land uses and census tract boundaries are shown on maps and a variety of population characteristics from the 2000 Census are presented for the district as a whole and for each tract within the district. Each district profile also contains lists of Selected Facilities and Program Sites, including public and private schools, park
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Social Explorer
Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps. The database contains hundreds of interactive data maps of the United States. From Queens College.
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Black in America - Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination
Text and video clips from the first installment of CNN's groundbreaking documentary series Black in America Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination. CNN gained exclusive access to eyewitnesses, FBI documents and the killer's (James Earl Ray) room.
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Congressional Quarterly Supreme Court Collection
Provides not only the text of decisions but explanatory materials, links to related cases. It also offers a variety of search options.
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The Africana Criminal Justice Project (ACJP)
The project established to further develop and stimulate engagement (among academics, students, activists, and practitioners) with black intellectuals on race, crime, and the criminal justice systems. ACJP also supports initiatives seeking to address a response to the contemporary crisis of racialized criminal injustice, especially through the promotion of black civic capacity and leadership in communities impacted by mass criminalization and incarceration.
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See also: Cold War - Cuban Missile Crisis & the Bay of Pigs
AfroCuban History
Site contains a thorough time line, links to related sites, and information on conferences, festivals, and exhibitions. It also contains valuable sources examining race and identity in the history of Cuba.
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Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969): A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture
Finding Aid and selected bibliography of the works of Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969), eminent Cuban sociologist, and relevant secondary literature. Other items include handwritten manuscripts, articles cited or used in his publications, illustrations from many different sources, and notebooks of various interview subjects, and recorded data.
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Community District Profiles (for NYC's Five Boroughs)
Each of the 59 district profiles contains summary data on population size; birth, death and infant mortality rates; land area and land uses; and levels of income support. Land uses and census tract boundaries are shown on maps and a variety of population characteristics from the 2000 Census are presented for the district as a whole and for each tract within the district. Each district profile also contains lists of Selected Facilities and Program Sites, including public and private schools, park
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Social Explorer
Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps. The database contains hundreds of interactive data maps of the United States. From Queens College.
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Africana & Black History
Items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Great Migration, from the Western migration to the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Includes 25,000 pages of texts, rare visual materials, maps, contemporary photojournalism, and lesson plans.
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See also: Civil Rights Era (U.S.)
40 Years later: MLK's Assassination
Video clips of MLK from the archives of NBC's boardcast "Meet the Press."
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Black in America - Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination
Text and video clips from the first installment of CNN's groundbreaking documentary series Black in America Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination. CNN gained exclusive access to eyewitnesses, FBI documents and the killer's (James Earl Ray) room.
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King
Text and video clips from the History' Channel's documentary on Dr. King.
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African American Film and Television at the UCLA Television & Film Archive
Motion picture and television collections at the UCLA Film and Television Archive feature titles made both by and about African-Americans. These films and programs run from the silent era to modern situation comedies. They provide a unique opportunity not only to examine the history of how blacks have been represented in mainstream media, but also to view a considerable range of productions by African-Americans.
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Black Film Center/Archive
Website for a repository of films and related materials by and about African
Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience. Early Black Images
1890's to 1900 link offers short online films and the Helpful Links page is worth looking out.
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Black Film Promotional Materials Collection at Washington University in St. Louis
The Black Film Promotional Materials Collection comprises some 2,700 posters, programs, photographs, advertisements, press kits and other materials used to promote more than 400 films between 1915-1980. The collection also includes materials for films made with all-African-American casts by small, independent companies, including a number of exceptionally rare pieces from the silent films of the 1920s. Nearly all prominent African-American actors, directors and writers of several decades appear
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Black Hollywood Education & Resource Center
Founded in 1996, the Black Hollywood Education and Resources Center, a nonprofit is designed to advocate, educate, research, develop, and preserve the history, and the future, of blacks in the film and television industries.
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Dislocation
For PBS, a film that chronicles the lives of tenants who were given a 180 day notice of eviction to relocate from the Robert Taylor Homes Public Housing development.
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Langston Black Film Festival
This annual event provides provocative films from independent Black filmmakers and works about the African American experience. The festival features panel discussions, screenplay readings, matinee screenings for middle and high school youth and in-depth chats with filmmakers, industry professionals and local community leaders. The Festival is run by a core of committed community volunteers under the direction of Jacqueline Moscou, Langston Hughes' Artistic Director. The annual event is actually the culmination of a year?s worth of community collateral-building through a series of smaller events designed to provide audiences with unique cinematic and filmmaking opportunities that result in an annual community-wide film festival held at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center.
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Pan African Film & Arts Festivals
Established in 1992, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression. It is PAFF's goal to present and showcase the broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes
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Separate Cinema
The Separate Cinema Archive is a rare collection of over 25,000 film posters, lobby cards and photographs that chronicle the Black film industry.
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American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Introduction to the activities of the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. News about programs and activities, online presentations of multiformat collections and other resources to facilitate folklife projects and study.
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
On the campus of Ferris State University the one-room Jim Crow museum houses a 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts and memorabilia gathered, catalogued and donated by Dr. David Pilgrim, professor of Sociology at the University. The artifacts include ordinary household items -- sheet music, ashtrays, children's books, notepads, fishing lures, salt and pepper shakers, postcards, dolls, and matchbooks. Also digitized images and video clips of racist cartoons and sterotypes.
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Ancestry.com
Genealogy, family trees and family history records online. Subscription required.
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Christine's Genealogy Website
News relating to African American genealogy and history
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Family Search
A collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records. Registration required.
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2006: 06/20 - Poverty, Public Housing and the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act)
"Have housing and community investment incentives helped public housing families achieve the American dream?" --- Hearing before the Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census of the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform
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Harlem History
Harlem History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods.
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