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		African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship ^Votes:0 Overview Object List Credits Public Programs Search EXHIBIT SECTIONS Slavery--The Peculiar Institution Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period Abolition The Civil War Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Era World War I and Postwar Society Depression, New Deal, and World War II Civil Rights INTRODUCTION T he exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship , showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition of any kind to feature presentations in all three of the Library's buildings. The major presentation in the J Read More Go to Site


		African American Perspectives: African American Pamphlets - Time Line Page One ^Votes:0 Time Line of African American History, 1852-1880 The following works were valuable sources in the compilation of this Time Line: Lerone Bennett's Before the Mayflower (Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1982), W. Augustus Low and Virgil A. Clift's Encyclopedia of Black America (New York: Da Capo Press, 1984), and Harry A. Ploski and Warren Marr's The Negro Almanac (New York: Bellwether Co., 1976). Timeline: 1881-1900 Timeline: 1901-1925 1852 Daniel A. P. Murray born. Born in Baltimore on March 3. Murray, an African-American, was assistant librarian of Congress, and a collector of books and pamphlets by and about black Americans. Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin . Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, published on March 20, focused national attention on the cruelties of slavery. 1854 Lincoln Univers Read More Go to Site

		American Slave Narratives ^Votes:0 American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology RELATED RESOURCES ON THIS SITE F rom 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves. What makes the WPA narratives so rich is that they capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave li Read More Go to Site

		Black Archives of Mid-America ^Votes:0 Browse the Galleries Search the Database Contents This project is a collaboration between the Black Archives of Mid-America Inc. and Kansas City Public Library, funded by the Missouri State Library. ? Copyright 1998 . Read More Go to Site

		Black History Guide and Black History Month ^Votes:0 Black History Guide and Black History Month Black American History, a history of black people in the United States. Minority Health Alerts and News What is Mesothelioma? Minority health program puts power in participants' hands BLACK HISTORY - Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.) center for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama, that was the site of a 1963 bombing that killed four African American girls. BLACK HISTORY - Ruby Bridges was born in Mississippi She grew up in a very poor family. When she was at the age of 4 Ruby and her family moved to New Orleans.When Ruby was old enough to attend school the judge ordered Ruby to go to the Frantz Elementary School for whites only. Ruby was the first black child to walk into Frantz Elementary School to attend the first grade. One da Read More Go to Site

		Footsteps Magazine ^Votes:0 Celebrating African American Heritage and Achievement About Us \| Activities \| Links \| Articles \| Themes \| Submissions FOOTSTEPS is a magazine designed for young people, their parents, and other individuals interested in discovering the scope, substance, and many often unheralded facts of African American heritage. It is an excellent classroom resource for teachers, a valuable research tool for students, and an important vehicle for bringing this rich heritage to people of all backgrounds. Footsteps' last issue will be May 2006. However, we will continue to keep our past issues in print. Click for more details . In each issue : nonfiction articles and interviews activities historical photographs and artwork illustrations maps primary source documents Readers' Submissions Quilting traveling Read More Go to Site

		John's Word Search Puzzles: Black History ^Votes:0 This page has been accessed times since moving to this site April 24, 1998. Go Back to John's Word Search Puzzles Read More Go to Site

		NYPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ^Votes:0 Skip to Left Navigation Skip to Main Content get a library card? find a book? renew a book? reserve a book? reserve a PC? research a topic? find a job at NYPL? volunteer for NYPL? support NYPL? rent space? order/license images? learn to read? learn English? find events? find exhibitions? find classes? connect with wireless? Services Collections Archives & Manuscripts Finding Aids Digital Schomburg Online Exhibitions Scholars-in-Residence Junior Scholars Program Undergraduate Humanities Summer Institute About the Center CATNYP Catalog - Research Catalog of the Schomburg Center Databases & Indexes Online Databases at Schomburg Photo Services & Permissions 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037-1801 (212) 491-2200 Hours and Directions Enter your e-mail address to receive updates on Schomb Read More Go to Site

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