Black History Links

• Black History, Exploring African-American Issues on the Web from Pacific Bell includes a dozen Internet activities, a black history treasure hunt, and opportunities for interactive video conferencing.
• An African-American Mosaic from the Library of Congress is the first library-wide resource guide to the institution's African-American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range, size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
• Underground Railroad gives a general overview of slavery, abolitionism, and escape routes used by slaves.
• Black History Month from the Philly News biographies of famous African Americans, facts and stories about Black History topics, and more.
• Emancipation Proclamation the transcribed text of the document that ordered slaves to be freed.
• The Internet-African American History Challenge helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American history and provides biographical profiles of some important 19th Century-African Americans.
• The Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences profiles more than 100 African-American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.
• Black Baseball's Negro Baseball Leagues is the most comprehensive resource on the Web for information about the Negro Baseball Leagues.
• African American Info Center from the Baltimore Public Library
• The African American History Site
• Yahooligans News Coverage of Black History Month.

ALSO SEE our Martin Luther King Jr. Links page