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Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month
City of Saint Paul events and resources about Black History Month.

African American History Month Book List
A guide to picture books, juvenile books, teen and adult books, and African American folklore and folktales, from the Saint Paul Public Library.

Black History Month (Gale)
Biographies of famous African Americans, a timeline, activities, and a quiz.

Black History Month (History.com)
Videos, audio recordings, photos, and more about the history of African Americans.

Black History Month (Infoplease)
History, timelines, current issues, and special features about the history of African Americans.

Black History Month (Time for Kids)
History, spotlight articles, and stories of famous African Americans, especially for kids.

Celebrating Our Black History
Biography.com presents a timeline, videos, fast facts, and the stories of the lives of famous African Americans.

Search Sites

JavaNoir
A selected listing of sites about African Americans. The site can be searched or browsed by major category.

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History: Guide to the Web
A searchable collection of annotated links on hundreds of subjects related to African, African American, and African Diaspora history and culture.

History

Africans in America
A history of slavery in the United States, presented in four parts. Each section features a narrative and a "resource bank" of maps, pictures, documents, and biographies. The site is a companion to the PBS series.

African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
Covers four major themes in African American history - Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA - with images of original source materials such as photographs, maps, and documents.

African American Odyssey
A virtual exhibition that explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. The site showcases books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, and plays from the African American collections of the Library of Congress.

African American Registry
This site presents "This Date in History," as well as two weeks worth of black history facts. The site also features poetry and song lyrics from African Americans.

African Americans: Biography, Autobiography, and History
Full text transcriptions of important documents in African American history. From the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.

AfroAmeric@ Black History Museum
Interactive exhibits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Jackie Robinson, the Million Man March, and more.

Black History Canada
Black history refers to the stories, experiences, and accomplishments of people of African origin in Canada.

Emancipation Proclamation
Text, images, and background of the document that set the stage for the end of slavery in the United States.

KidsDomain Black History Links
Links for children, including online games, activities, crafts, quizzes, and stories about African-Americans.

Minnesota Black Newspaper Index (pdf)
A guide to people an subjects covered by Minnesota's black newspapers from the 1880s to the 1940s. Note: this is a large (200 page) PDF file.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The history and legacy of the Underground Railroad, featuring a timeline and biographical profiles, as well as links to related sites. Part of a new museum dedicated to the Underground Railroad to be opened in 2004.

Culture

The Black World Today
Reporting on "the daily social, political, cultural and economic realities of Black communities and countries." This site features news headlines and covers sports, entertainment, health, jobs, and religion. The site also features a searchable directory of other Black culture sites.

Facts on the Black/African American Population
From the U.S. Census Bureau, the latest statistics, demographics, social and economic characteristics, and profile reports.

Journey To Wellness: An Online Health Magazine for African Americans
Features archived radio broadcasts of Dr. Mary Harris' program along with articles on disease and prevention, faith and wellness, consumer health, and general health.

Cooking

The Chitterling Site
Recipes for soul food favorites.

Soul Food Cookbook
Recipes from African American, Jamaican, and Caribbean cultures. The site is mainly an advertisement for a cookbook, but many of the recipes are available online.

Famous African Americans

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Biographical information for African American scientists, including bibliographic information of their publications. The site also includes bibliographies for further research about minorities in the sciences.

The Frederick Douglass Papers
Part of the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, this site includes over 2,000 family papers, pamphlets, brochures, speeches, reports, broadsides, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, articles, and maps about Douglass' life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. Includes a biographical timeline, a family tree, links to full texts of Douglass's autobiographies, and related resources.

The Life of Harriet Tubman
Summary of the life of Harriet Tubman from her life in slavery to her escape to Canada. From the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, NY.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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