AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

Local/Regional
Info and Resources

Local Connections:
African-Americans in the Thoroughbred Industry

NOTABLE KENTUCKY AFRICAN-AMERICANS (NKAA) DATABASE

• Notable Kentucky African Americans
  http://www.uky.edu/Subject/aakyall.html
  University of Kentucky index

• Garrett Morgan - Inventor from Paris KY
  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgas_mask.htm

  • 2005: Garrett Morgan Inducted into
    National Inventors Hall of Fame
    http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_3_0_induction_morgan.asp

• African Americans in the Derby - by Churchill Downs
  http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2002/derby_history/
  african_americans_in_the_derby/

• African Americans in Racing
  http://horseracing.about.com/library/weekly/aa012499.htm

• Archeological Investigations at Monterey
  http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/AAAnewsletter/newsletter23.html#anchor762476
  The site of Monterey, in Bourbon County, is especially significant with regard to African American history in Kentucky; it was explored during the recent Paris Pike road construction activity.

• Celebrate Kentucky African Americans’ History
  http://www.kdla.ky.gov/researchlinks/blackhistory.htm
  A collection of online resources on Kentucky African Americans' history compiled by the Kentucky Dept. for Libraries and Archives.

  • Researching Your African American Ancestors in Kentucky
    http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/kyafricanamerresearch.htm

  • Bourbon County - African American Griots
    http://aagriots.org/kentucky/
    The goal for this site is to be a centralized location for African-American records in the state of Kentucky. 

Martin Luther King

"I Have a Dream"
speech - full text and audio

"I Have Been to the Mountaintop"
speech - full text and audio

Top 10 Reasons Why You Should March
http://www.king-raleigh.org/history/march.htm

MLK Web - Online Resource Collection
http://martinlutherking.8m.com/
main.html

More Selected Web Sites

• The Origins of Black History Month
  http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/blkhistorymonth/a/origins.htm

• The Blue Highway - Celebrate Black History Month
  http://thebluehighway.com/bhistory.html
  Links to outstanding African American web sites.

• AARDOC: African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project

  http://www3.amherst.edu/~aardoc/

  Headquartered at Amherst College, the African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project (AARDOC) was founded in 1987. The goal of the project is "to produce a comprehensive history of African-American religion." The history is scheduled to be published in a print edition by the University of Chicago Press later in 2010, and the authors of the project have created this site to bring a selection of these materials to the attention of educators and students. The "Advice for Beginners" section contains a brief description of external reference works of note, and then visitors can make their way through brief outlines of different phases in African-American religious history in areas like "Atlantic World" and "Global Phase". The "Sample Documents" area is a real treat, as it features primary documents that tell the story of Billy Sunday's interactions with African-Americans and the 1822-1823 journal of Betsey Stockton, who joined a company of missionaries as they set sail for the Sandwich (Hawaii) Islands. The site is rounded out by a selection of teaching resources, including syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses. >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/

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• African American History and Heritage Site
  http://www.creativefolk.com/blackhistory/blackhistory.html

• African American History Challenge
  http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/

• African American Literature
  http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmlit1.html

• Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas:
  A Visual Record
  http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/

• Black History: Exploring African American Issues on the Web
  http://www.kn.att.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html  

• Black History Hotlist
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
  A starting point for anyone studying African American events and issues.

• Black History Month
  http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
  Infoplease.com celebrates Black History Month with a collection of features, biographies, reference links, civil rights timeline, quizzes and puzzles

• Black Wings
  http://www.ssbinc.com/b_wings/
  This Interactive CD-ROM preview celebrates the contributions African Americans have made in aviation.

• Breaking Racial Barriers
  http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/index.htm
  An online exhibition of African American portraits from the Harmon Foundation Collection.

• The Crisis

  http://books.google.com/books?id=-EIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=magazine_serial:-EIEAAAAMBAJ

  "The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and it was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910. The title of the magazine is taken from a poem by James Russell Lowell titled "The Present Crisis". In his first editorial written for the magazine, Du Bois remarked that "its editorial page will stand for the rights of men, irrespective of color or race, for the highest ideals of American democracy, and for reasonable but earnest and persistent attempts to gain these rights and realize these ideals." Today, The Crisis continues as a current-affairs journal, and a recent digitization project sponsored by Google has made the complete run of the publication available online. As with many other digitized books and magazines on Google Books, visitors can browse through each issue or perform a more detailed keyword search across the entire collection. >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009." http://scout.wisc.edu/

  • Ebony
    http://books.google.com/books?id=r9QDAAAAMBAJ
    Google offers most issues from six decades of this magazine which offers insights and commentary into the African-American experience. Searchable.

• Digital Library on American Slavery
  http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/  
  Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.

• Legends of Tuskegee
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/intro.htm
  Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and the Tuskegee Airmen all created their own legends at Tuskegee - a site of major African-American achievements for over 100 years.

• Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
  http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/
  New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents this Web exhibit in conjunction with the United Nations resolution designating 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition.

• Little Rock 9, Integration 0?
  http://www.kn.att.com/wired/BHM/little_rock/index.html
  Collaborative WebQuest on racial desegregation in schools.

• Museum of African American History - Detroit, Michigan
  http://www.maah-detroit.org/
  This site describes special features and collections of the world's largest Black historical and cultural museum.

• 'One More Once' - A Centennial Celebration of the
  Life and Music of Count Basie
  http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/cb/index.html
  A treasure trove of material about the beloved musician.

• Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collection
  http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/dunbar/
  A selected group of Dunbar's poetry is intended to encourage the use of and interest in his works.

• Resources & Links for Black History Month, Kwanzaa,
  Martin Luther King Day and More
  http://www.creativefolk.com/blackhistory/blackhistory.html
  Gerri Gribi, an award-winning musician, historian and Internet educator, presents a useful array of information an numerous African American issues.

• Sampling African America
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_sampler.html

• Say Brother
  http://main.wgbh.org/saybrother/
  View and search excerpts of the important African American show from public television, "Say Brother". Explore this invaluable programming and check out the exemplary list of links to online resources for African-American history.

• Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
  http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/index.html
  A documentary from American Radio Works; listen to selected speeches and follow along with the transcripts.

• Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
  http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata
  From the Data and Library Program Service at the University of Wisconsin

• Tuskegee Airmen
  http://tuskegeeairmen.org/

• Tuskegee Tragedy - A Webquest
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/tuskegee_quest.html

• Voices from the Days of Slavery (Library of Congress)
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/vfshome.html