Affirmative
Action
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/affirm/links.htm
The Washington
Post's affirmative action coverage page. This site features news stories and
other information on affirmative action, including congressional commentary,
presidential remarks and policies, coverage of the Sharon Taxman v. Piscataway
Board of Education case, and articles on California's Proposition 209.
Affirmative
Action Resource Center
http://www.nationalcenter.org/AA.html
The National Center
for Public Policy Research's page of affirmative action research materials and
information. The four sections of the page provide commentary, legislation,
litigation, and links on affirmative action in the United States. The commentary
is largely from news sources and political or policy groups and touches on a
variety of issues and perspectives in the debate over affirmative action
policies.
African-American
Mosaic: Abolition
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
A visual
introduction to the early American abolitionist movement. Maintained by the
Library of Congress and based on their own collection of images and documents,
the site contains images of antislavery pamphlets, advertisements, and sheet
music with explanatory text.
African-Americans
on Reconstruction
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
A searchable
collection of 300 pamphlets pertinent to African American life after the Civil
War. Maintained by the Library of Congress, the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection
can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject and author index. Among the
authors represented are Frederick Douglas, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
Africans in
America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative.html
A powerful
narrative of the African American experience during the Slave Trade. PBS's site
offers images, text, maps, and timelines to illustrate the evolution of the
slave trade during the period from 1450-1750 ("The Terrible
Transformation", Part I of a PBS series, Africans in America). Additional
materials on the periods from 1750-1865 are also available on the site. These
documents poignantly recall the period of the establishment of the slave trade
and its impact on Africa and the American colonies in terms of individual
experiences and accounts.
Africans in
America: Judgment Day
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/title.html
A site on the
deepening conflicts in American life as slavery expanded into the West and
increasingly entrenched itself into political institutions. One section of a
four-part site created by PBS Online as a supplement to a television
documentary, Judgment Day covers the years 1831 to 1865. It contains a brief
narrative of the period and an extensive resource bank, which includes short
explanations of key people and events, historical documents, and commentary by
historians.
Africans in
America: Revolution
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/title.html
A site on the
personal, religious, and legal challenges of African Americans during the
Revolutionary Era. One section of a four-part site created by PBS Online as a
supplement to their television documentary, Revolution covers the years
1750-1805. It contains a brief narrative of the period and an extensive resource
bank that includes short explanations of key people and events, historical
documents, and commentary on specific subjects by historians.
Africans in
America: The Terrible Transformation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/title.html
A site on the
Atlantic slave trade and the history of Africans in America during the three
centuries following European contact with Africa. One section of a four-part
site created by PBS Online as a supplement to their television documentary, The
Terrible Transformation covers the years 1450-1750. It contains a brief
narrative of the period and an extensive resource bank that includes short
explanations of key people and events, historical documents, and commentary on
specific subjects by historians.
Amistad,
1839–42
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/home.htm
A guide to the
Amistad Revolt of 1839 to 1842, a shipboard revolt off the coast of Cuba that
led to an intense legal battle in the United States about slavery and the slave
trade. Presented by Mystic Seaport, the site includes a timeline, other
secondary sources, and a library of more than 500 primary-source documents.
Baseball, the
Color Line, and Jackie Robinson
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
An examination of
the history of the Negro leagues and the impact of Jackie Robinson on American
sports and society. Part of the American Memory exhibit at the Library of
Congress, the site is divided into chronological segments. It features
manuscripts, photographs, books, maps, and transcripts of speeches and
broadcasts, and includes a section on Robinson's efforts in the Civil Rights
movement. The site also links the user to a collection of baseball photographs
from the 1860s to the 1920s.
First-Person
Narratives of the American South
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/fpn/fpn.html
A collection of
narratives on the South by southerners. Part of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's "Documenting the American South" collection, the
reminiscences span from the antebellum period to 1920. With the full texts
online along with thumbnail images of the book's illustrations, covers, and
spines, the sources consist of autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries by a
variety of southerners from former slaves to Confederate soldiers to women at
home.
Freedman and
Southern Society Project
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html
Homepage for the
University of Maryland project Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation,
1861-1867. The project is working on publishing a nine volume series of
documents from the history of African American Emancipation. Excerpted documents
from four of these volumes are available online. These documents tell the
individual stories of masters, slaves, soldiers, and civilians whose lives were
changed with the coming of emancipation. The project has also assembled a
timeline to help students place the documents in their historical context.
Lower
Mississippi Delta Region
http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/concept06.htm
This site offers a
brief history of the Lower Mississippi Delta. Maintained by the National Park
Service, the site spans from prehistory to the Civil War, giving special
attention to the elaborate earthen architecture of early culture along the
"Nile of the New World."
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/index.html
A documentary and
biographical treatment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Created by the Seattle Times,
the site contains commentary by MLK contemporaries, a civil rights timeline, a
photography exhibit, an examination of King's legacy, and a study guide with
links to related topics. Some audio features are also included.
The Affirmative
Action and Diversity Project
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/aa.html
Collection of
resources from the University of California, Santa Barbara, on affirmative
action policies and diversity in the United States. Affirmative action has been
a hotly debated policy since the official introduction of the idea in President
Johnson's 1965 "Executive Order 11246." This site explores the history
of affirmative action legislation and race relationships in America through
important government documents, essays, and links to other Web site resources.
The Survey
Graphic, Harlem Number, March 1925
http://etext.virginia.edu/harlem/index.html
An online
reproduction of the March 1925 "Harlem Number" of the Survey Graphic
magazine, which gave national exposure to the Harlem Renaissance and featured
work by W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Angelina Grimké, and others. Produced
by the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center, the site also includes a
brief introduction to the text and an array of contemporary reviews.
Third Person,
First Person: Slave Voices
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
A library of
manuscripts and broadsides that shed light on the social life of slavery.
Created by the Special Collections Library at Duke University, the exhibit
includes thumbnail images of broadsides calling for the return of runaway slaves
and records from southern plantations.
Uncle Tom's
Cabin and American Culture
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/
A site dedicated to
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Presented by the Special Collections
Library at University of Virginia, the exhibit includes the full text of Stowe's
novel, as well as a series of responses and reviews.