Recommended Web Sites: African American

Biographies, Photographs, illustration.

A support group for African- Americans.

Includes over 450 clips of historic newsfilm in addition to related collections from 75 libraries, archives, and museums across the nation. Most are original documentation of the period, such as oral histories, letters, diaries, FBI files, and photographs

More than 25,000 pages from the Freedom Summer manuscripts at the Wisconsin Historical Society, including official records of organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); the personal papers of movement leaders and activists such as Amzie Moore, Mary King and Howard Zinn, letters and diaries of northern college students who went South to volunteer for the summer; newsletters produced in Freedom Schools; racist propaganda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and brochures, magazine articles, telephone call logs, candid snapshots, internal memos, press releases and much more.

Documents, articles, and links honoring and acknowledging the accomplishments of African-Americans

14060 stories taken from 700 hours of video about 310 historically significant African Americans. From the famous Barack Obama (an Illinois state senator when interviewed) and Julian Bond--to the not-so-famous (Gloria Bacon, a physician who established The Clinic in Altgeld, a medically underserved housing project in Chicago, and executive Clark Burrus), The achive spotlights African Americans in a variety of fields and professions.

Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of African and African American history and culture.

The Web resource "presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP's history during its first 100 years."

Biographies of African Americans