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Black Stories, Black History

Test Your Knowledge of Black History

• Black History Month Quiz
• The African American History Challenge

	ATTENTION NEW LONDON COUNTY CONNECTICUT Tuesday through Sunday, April 17-22 2007 The HBCA Black College Southern Education Tour includes tours of 6 Historically Black Colleges & Pre-Tour Workshops Bus departs from New London HS on April 18th and returns April 23rd.
Workshops	Tours
Financial Aid Workshop	Morgan State University
Local College Fair	Howard University
Tour Preparation Workshop	Cheney State University
Parent Orientation	Lincoln University Delaware State University
For information call: Ms. Patterson 860-445-5470 or Mr. Fonville 860-848-1847 Email: hbca_nl@yahoo.com. Web site: http://www.geocities.com/hbca_nl [See Flyer for Details & Payment Plan] Historically Black College Alumni, Inc. is a non-profit 501(C3) IRS tax exempt organization.

Black History Month

February is set aside to celebrate and chronicle the lives of Black Americans as well as to educate America about the accomplishments of black Americans. Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History month believed that knowledge was key to success.

• The Blue Highway Celebrates Black History Month
• FamilyEducation Network: Black History Quiz
• Black History Month, Pacific Bell: Six sites about African American history. Showing how to integrate the web and videoconferencing for teaching.

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Journey to Freedom

• Amistad at Mystic Seaport
• Amistad Kids Club
• Slavery & Freedom
• Sixteen Largest American Slaveholders (1860: Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held is almost non-existent. It is possible to locate an ancestor on a U.S. census for 1860 or earlier and not realize that ancestor was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave schedules, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census. Resources here
• Civil War
• Jim Crow Laws
• Exploring & Settling the West - the Black Experience
• Buffalo Soldiers: Buffalo Soldiers Club is the place to get information about the African-Americans who helped to tame the west and more. . .
• The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the US
• About MLK
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
• The National Civil Rights Museum
• Juneteenth
• King and the Black Freedom Struggle Chronology from 1896 to 1968: [http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/black_freedomFrame.htm]

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Freedom's Children

• Biographies
• Black Wings: Meaty preview of a CD produced by the National Air and Space Museum showcasing the contributions African Americans have made to aviation. Worth taking a look.
• African Americans In The Sciences
• Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics
• Negro League Baseball Dot Com
• Afrocentric Voices
• Archives of African American Music & Culture
• African American Sheet Music
• America's Jazz Heritage
• Center for Black Music Research
• Red Hot Jazz Archive
• The Blues Highway
• African-Americans in Motion Pictures: provides some of the most interesting studies along with the many controversial interpretations of the roles as actors they played on the silver screen. As far back as the silent films era, African-Americans have been featured in motion pictures playing roles depicting some aspect of acting and being purveyors of a black image.
• Black Film Center/Archive: Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, Smith Research Center, Suite 180, 2805 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, (812) 855-6041. Web: http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca
• Blackgilm.com: P.O. Box 371661 Denver, Colorado 80237, 303-520-5804. Online resource which links the Black film community while cultivating national and international audiences interested in their work.
• San Diego BLAACK Pages (SDBP): Basic Link to African American Community Knowledge

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Black History Sites

• African American Holocaust: Web: maafa.org. MAAFA is a Kiswahili term for "Disaster" or "Terrible Occurrence"..
• Afrocentric Experience: Web: http://www.swagga.com/. The Afrocentric Experience is dedicated to the empowerment and the enlightenment processes of all people through out the world especially those of African descent in Africa and the African diaspora.
• Powerfull Days in Black & White: Striking pictures of Martin Luther King's arrest, distributed nationwide by the Associated Press began a new career of photojournalism for Charles Moore. Over the next seven years, Moore made some of the most significant pictures of the civil rights movement
• Africa Within: Africa Within is the premier web site for Africana Studies. AfricaWithin.com is an online portal to African and African-American History,Black History, Art, Books, Pictures, Egypt, Poetry, and more.
• Afro-American History: Links to several excellent sites on specific topics and general African American history.
• Breaking Racial Barriers: In 1944 the Harmon Foundation organized an exhibition "Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin.". Don't miss this one.
• The Museum of African American History: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit provides "exceptional exhibitions and programs based on outstanding collections and research that explore the diversity of African American history and culture."
• Stamp on Black History: Six high school students in the Washington, DC area developed this site that supplies links to well-written biographies and photos of African Americans featured on postage stamps.
• Black Facts Online!
• The Universal Black Pages
• Deeper Shade Of History
• Education First: Black History Activities
• African-American Mosaic - a Study of Black History and Culture
• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
• About Kwanzaa
• John Henrik Clarke Africana Library: located at Cornell University, 310 Triphammer Road, Ithaca, New York 14850. Web: http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/. The Africana Library was named in honor of John Henrik Clarke, who was widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of Africana Studies.
  • The John Henrik Clarke Virtual Museum
  • In Memory of John Henrik Clarke (Hunter College)
  • Schomburg Legacy Exhibition: John Henrik Clarke Section
  • John Henrik Clarke Bibliographies (Cornell University)
  • John Henrik Clarke Resources (Runoko Rashidi)
  • John Henrik Clarke: A Great & Mighty Walk (FILM)
• Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
• National Civil Rights Museum: 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, TN 38103, (901) 521-9699. Web: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/. The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide.

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Resource Links

• NAACP Online
• Black Voices For Peace
• Black Professional Organizations: Categorical directory of black professional organizations and associations for networking and encouraging support within the African-American community
• Our Voices OnLine!: Exclusive OnLine Magazine promoting African-American business, culture, family and spirit
• Afrocentric Online: Bulletin Board
• African-American Shakespeare Company: Only company of African-American actors that perform European Classical works in the country - told within the perspective and cultural dynamic of the African-American culture
• Blacks United
• National Black United Front
• The Blackstripe: provide information for and about same-gender-loving, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people of African descent
• AfroMed: Basic health information and statistics relevant to African Americans and links to already established websites.

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