AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES: THE BEST INTERNET RESOURCES

1. AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES: THE BEST INTERNET RESOURCES STEPHEN PERRY, IRO and SUZAN METRY, IRC SPECIALIST CAIROIRC@STATE.GOV PERRYLS@STATE.GOV 797-3411

2. We shall bring to light the enormous African-American resources available on the Internet In this Presentation... • We shall also acquaint you with what we have on African-American Studies

3. History of African-American History Month .But first the History and reason behind the celebration of African-American History Month. .Contributions of African-Americans have never been properly documented or recorded. Blacks have largely been left out of the written record for America, but this is now slowly being rectified .The designation of February as Black History month was an attempt to remedy this historical neglect. .Who started the month and the celebrations? In 1926, Dr Carter Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D who founded the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life, initiated “Negro History Week.”

4. History of African-American History Month .What was the special significance behind February being chosen as the month for these celebrations? .Dr. Woodson chose February because it included the Birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln--two men associated with championing Black causes. .How did the celebrations expand from a week to a month? .During the Nation’s Bicentennial in 1976, various Afrocentric organizations expanded the week-long celebration to provide more time for programs, speakers, observances and celebrations. .Shortly after this, Embassies around the world and Universities in the U.S. devoted February to speakers and special programs recognizing the enormous contributions of Blacks to American society.

5. How to Research African American History From Rutgers University Libraries

6. http://newark.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/afroam.htm

7. The more detailed RESEARCH GUIDE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES:http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml

8. From the African Studies Collection at U Pennsylvania

9. AFRICAN AMERICANS: From the University of California at Santa Barbara; http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.html

10. This site has links to Historical Texts

11. Ohio State University: Another Gateway Site: http://library.osu.edu/sites/thegateway/display.php

12. FROM USINFO WEB SITE: HTTP://USINFO.STATE.GOV

13. From the STATE DEPARTMENT SITE: USINFO

14. Section on CIVIL RIGHTS with KEY DOCUMENTS

15. AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH KEY DOCUMENTS

16. Has CENSUS BUREAU FACTS AND ADITIONAL RESOURCES: We will take Quiz at end of Class.

17. CENSUS FACTS 2006 for African Americans

18. Variety of Online Publications

19. ORGANZIATIONS CONCERNED WITH AFRICAN AMERICANS IN U.S.

20. LEGAL RESOURCES FROM INFO USA

21. TIMELINE OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

22. ONLINE READINGS

23. E -JOURNALS

24. E-JOURNALS IN ARABIC

25. African American Literature

26. African American Women Authors:http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

27. Example of a Digitized Text

28. HARLEM RENAISSANCE RESOURCES

29. African - American Women from the Duke University Special Collections: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html

30. African American Literature Analysis from USINFO:http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0200/ijse/stepto.htm

31. Bibliography on African American Literature:http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/african_americans_biblio.html

32. Web Sites on the Harlem Renaissance via the USINFO site: http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive_Index/Reference_on_the_Web_Harlem_Renaissance.html

33. DIGITIZED COLLECTIONS

34. http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/home.do;jsessionid=F7D388A53F22B4FE2064864C26B496F2http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/home.do;jsessionid=F7D388A53F22B4FE2064864C26B496F2

35. From Documenting the American South Project: Slave Narratives:http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html

36. Library of Congress Collections: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml

37. Library of Congress Digitized Collections via the American Memory Project.

38. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: SLAVE NARRATIVE PROJECT:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

39. African American Collections: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

40. Digitized Collections via the Georgetown University Project for American Studies: http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/asw/aswlinks.cfm?head1=Race%2C%20Ethnicity%2C%20and%20Identity&head2=African%20American%20Resources

41. SCHOMBURG COLLECTION: http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

42. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

43. Afro-American Museum in Boston

44. Smithsonian Museum

45. Museums : http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/african_americans_museums.html

46. Continuing Education through American Universities Online Courses, Essays, Perspectives

47. From USINFO: Essays on African-American History, Culture and Society.

48. MIT DISTANCE EDUCATION: ocw.mit.edu

49. Course on Writing about Race in MIT

50. An example from a course on American Women Writers