General Web Resources
(See also the Supplemental Links included in each Section of the Toolbox.)


DIGITAL SCHOMBURG, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

In Motion: The African American Migration Experience

Harlem: An African American Community, 1900-1940

The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (American Memory & Online Exhibitions)

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

Part 7. World War I and Postwar Society

Part 8. The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II

Voices of Civil Rights

With An Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty

Baseball and Jackie Robinson

The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture


UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS & WEB PRESENTATIONS

History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York

Search page to access African American primary texts and resources

BlackPast.org, from Dr. Quintard Taylor, University of Washington-Seattle

Major Speeches

Primary Documents

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, from SUNY-Binghamton and Alexander Street Press

A Multi-Racial Movement in the Baltimore YWCA, 1883-1926

Southern Women and Antilynching, 1890-1942

Black Women in the NAACP Promote an Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918-1923

National Woman's Party and the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924

African American E-Texts in the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center


PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE (PBS)

Eyes of the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 (American Experience)

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

Soldiers without Stones: The Black Press

African American World: Your Guide to African American Art and Culture


MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., PAPERS PROJECT, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. Clayborn Carson, 2001

King speeches, sermons, etc.


OTHER RESOURCES

Reporting Civil Rights, 1941-1973, from the Library of America





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