Celebrate
Black History Month: Great African Americans
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/blackhist/proindex.html
Produced by the History Channel, this site offers brief biographies of important African Americans. This site includes an archive of speeches.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
This PBS Web site features reports about noted African Americans, ranging from Dizzy Gillespie and Ice Cube to Michael Jordan and Zora Neale Hurston. Many of the segments are drawn from the News Hour interviews and include audio excerpts.
http://www.toptags.com/aama/index.htm
The AFRO-American Almanac ® is an on-line presentation of the African in America. An historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. Recommended by the History Channel.
Selected
African American Artists at the National Gallery of
Art
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-main1.html
The National Gallery of Art presents selected items from its
collection of work by African American artists. See an overview of the tour that
shows thumbnail images of each work, or take the tour for in-depth descriptions
of individual paintings.
http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html
Tour these pages to learn about significant events in the civil rights
movement. Read the information and view the photos, starting with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Montgomery Bus Boycott, and The Freedom Rides.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site
and Preservation District
Click on Learn More About the History of the Park for photos of this Atlanta district. Study The Development of a Black Community and Leader, 1906-1948 and King's Leadership of the American Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968.
Dred Scott v.
Sandford
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/index.html
A brief description of the
U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court declared that not only was Dred Scott
still a slave but that the main law guaranteeing that slavery would not enter
the new Midwestern territories of the United States was unconstitutional. This
site is part of a broader web site dealing with African American
history.
http://www.aawar.net/default.htm
This site contains information about African Americans who fought courageously on the front lines of historic battles. Topics include: Revolutionary War, Civil War, Buffalo Soldiers, Tuskegee Airman, Montford Point Marines, the 24th Infantry in Korea, Colin Powell and more.