Topic :African American

 Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)
Part of PBS's African-American Journey site, here you'll find a rich collection of resources --images, documents, stories, biographies, commentaries-- on the experience of slavery in America. There are four parts: The Terrible Transformation: 1450-1750, Revolution: 1750-1805, Brotherly Love:1791-1831, an Judgment Day: 1831-1865. There is also a useful teacher's guide and activities for students.

 The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
A LOC resource guide for the study of Black History and Culture, the Mosaic explores colonization, abolition, migration, and the WPA. Included are maps, charts, primary sources, and background information

 This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys
This PBS companion site covers 1526 to the present day and provides an introductory essay to each section and interactive timelines where one can explore significant events and people.

 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Access primary sources, manuscripts, photographs, music, and other documents

 African Voices
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, provides a thematic exploration of Africa. The themes revolve around issues of wealth, working and living conditions in Africa.The history-oriented sections focus on the slave trade, colonialism and other subjects. The Learning Center offers a helpful list of African resources.

 African American World
AFRICAN AMERICAN WORLD, a comprehensive Web site, draws from the best of PBS and NPR to connect black Americans with their history and culture in a uniquely interactive format.

 BBC: The Story of Africa
This BBC site features Africa's top historians and analyzes the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. Among the topics covered are the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms, the power of religion, the injustices of slavery, and the expansion of trade between Africa and other continents. Features audio segments.

 Africana.com
Africana.com aspires to promote understanding of black history and culture. The site has full text articles on topics in African- American and African history and society. The Africana Blackboard is a section for lesson plans and ideas. The exhibits allow students around the world to access images and sounds few could see or hear in their area.

 Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Site contains 600 articles that are illustrated with historical film clips and audio recordings as well as hundreds of photographs and other images. The material enables the visitor to examine five centuries of black heritage through five distinct time periods. Each era is further divided by topic, with biographies and photographs of notable people and descriptions and documents of historic events.

 Internet African Sourcebook
Part of Paul Halsall's excellent series of Internet Sourcebooks, Internet African Sourcebook has full-text sources for African history arranged by topics that include the Black Athena Debate, human origins, Egypt, Ethiopia, Islam in Africa, West African kingdoms, Great Religion, the slave trade and more.

 Time.com Black History
Special online feature on Celebrating Black History - US focus, including useful profiles on figures such as Martin Luther King

 Voices of the Shuttle: Minority Studies Page(UCSB)
Voices is an on line guide to humanities studies and a worthwhile source of links to information on minorities in America

 African-American Registry
Daily historical background for African-American figures, communities, politics and culture

 Black History Pages
US focused site, pointing to useful and plentiful online resources for Black History.

Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides, Activities, and more

 Visualizing Jazz Scenes From the Harlem Renaissance: Lesson Plan
A PBS lesson plan to get students involved in the culture of the Harlem Renaissance. Students will listen to Jazz Poems, analyze artwork, and conduct historical research. This lesson plan is appropriate for all ages.

 Lesson Plan: Spirituals
In this MarcoPolo lesson plan, students learn about the origins of spirituals and how the tradition has been kept alive and revitalized with the Civil Rights Movement. The lesson plan provides the lyrics to a few spirituals and also shows how Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches had spiritual influences.

 Lesson Plan- After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North
This lesson plan is meant to teach about African American life in the North. Designed by MarcoPolo, the plan includes many resources and biographies of slaves and free blacks at the end of the revolution.

 Utilizing the Registers of Free Blacks For the City of Staunton and Augusta County, Virginia, 1803–1864
Created by Carl Shulkin, this History Matters lesson plan uses many primary sources to help students learn about the Free Blacks in the antebellum South.

 Lesson Plan: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
Designed by the Library of Congress, this comprehensive lesson plan focuses on Segregation and other issues that confronted the Black Community from 1897 to 1953. The lesson plan has both Teacher and Student Sections and plenty of available resources.

 Economy vs. Humanity: Exploring the Triangle Trade and The Middle Passage
The Triangle Trade, though morally reprehensible, was integral to the growth of the economies of the United States and Great Britain. The last leg of that trek, known as the Middle Passage, retains the infamy of having been a horrific journey for Africans who had been free in their countries but were being enslaved in the Americas. Through the video series, Freedom: History of US and the companion Web site utilized in this middle school lesson plan, students will explore the economic importance of the Triangle Trade and the experience of enslaved Africans who were forced to endure the Middle Passage.

 CEC: "Putting Some Spark in Black History Month"
This is a brief mini-lesson that revolves around a class activity. Recommended as a good way to liven up February. Suitable for grades 6-8.

 The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in America
This site by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and The Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library provides hundreds of images 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

 Culture & Change: Black History in America
Meet famous African Americans, listen to jazz music, publish your own writing, and explore history with this interactive timeline from Scholastic.

 Education First: Black History Activities
Six Web sites were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning.

 Christian Science Monitor: Black History Game
Under Construction (August 2003)

 Africa-America Migration: Blank Map
The companion web site to The American People offers blank maps related to various topics in American history. The maps can be printed or placed in a PowerPoint presentation

 The NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People