Research Topics Related to "Having Our Say"

General Resources

• African American Journey
• African American Odyssey
• The African-American Mosaic
• African Americans in the Sciences
• Black Experience in America
• Black History Database
• Breaking Racial Barriers : African Americans
• The Interactive African-American History Challenge
• Lest We Forget : The Untold History of America
• Persistance of The Spirit
• African American History
• Africana: Gateway to the Black World
• The Afrocentric Experience
• African Americans-Culture, History, Legacy, and Heritage
• American Memory from the Library of Congress
• American President
• American Studies at the University of Virginia
• America's Library
• The Black Collegian Online
• Click 2 History
• Freedom Heroes
• George Washington University
• History Channel
• History Learning Site
• The History Place
• University of South Carolina
• Infoplease
• Stanford University
• Colorado State University

The De-humanizing Effects of Slavery

• Slavery--The Peculiar Institution
• Africans as Slaves
• American Slave Narratives
• Chronology on the History of Slavery
• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
• Slave Narratives
• America's Journey Through Slavery
  

Jim Crow Laws and Their Impact

• The History of Jim Crow
• National Parks Service
• Remembering Jim Crow

The Effect of the 1930's Depression on African Americans

• The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II
• Hard Times Again
• The Great Depression: An African American Perspective
  

Roles of African American in Wars

• African American Warriors
• Blacks in the Military
  

The Northern Migration of Negroes

• Migration of Blacks to Pittsburgh
• Great Migration

Burning of Churches

• Black Church Burnings: A Resource Guide

The Ku Klux Klan's Impact on Civil Rights

• The Ku Klux Klan
• KKK Homepage (for research purposes only)
• Ohio Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
• Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
• St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Underground Railroad
• The Civil War & After
• 4 Little Girls(Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing)
• Little Rock Central High
• Civil Rights
• Civil Rights Struggles
• Civil Rights; A Status Report
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Persistence of the Spirit: Black Experience in Arkansas
• Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
• Harriet Tubman Historical Society
• The Underground Railroad
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• The Turbulent Sixties - The Civil Rights Movement
• Introduction to the Sixties
• The Psychedelic Sixties: Literary tradition and social change
• Protest Songs

N.A.A.C.P.

• National Association For The Advancement of Colored People
• NAACP Official Website

Moneyed Black Families

• A. Phillip Randolph
• Madam C.J. Walker

Harlem of the 1920's

• Harlem: An African American Community
• Harlem: 'The Promised Land'
• Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community

Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

• Frederick Douglass
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
• Marcus Garvey
• The Poetry of Marcus Garvey
• Lyndon B. Johnson: Executive Order 11246
• I Have a Dream by MLK, Jr.
• The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln
• Malcolm X
• The Official Web Site of Malcolm X
• Walter White
• Rosa Parks
• Rosa Parks

African Americans in Entertainment and the Arts

• Negro Leagues Baseball Online Archives
• Prominent African Americans
• Edward "Duke" Ellington
• Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
• Lena Horne -- in Her Own Voice
• Zora Neal Hurston
• James Weldon Johnson
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Paul Robeson
• Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
• Jacob Lawrence
• Jazz Profiles
• Jazz Roots
• Cotton Club
• 100 Jazz Profiles
• Cab Calloway
• Cab Calloway
• Cab Calloway

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