African American History

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Selected Online Reference Sources

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Facts.com Provides in-depth features on historic events of the last 60 years.
• General Reference Center Gold
• Expanded Academic

WEB BASED RESOURCES
(some from Professor Charles Darling's Academic Weblist)

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship , from the Library of Congress's extensive holding of African American artifacts, manuscripts, etc.

We Shall Overcome: Historic Place of the Civil rights Movement, an online itinerary, maintained in part by the National Register of Historic Places.

Afro-American Almanac explores African-American history from the beginning of the slave trade, through the Civil Rights movement, to the present.

Been here So Long Slave narratives.

A Biography of America .

Documenting the American South Materials on 19th Century America.

TheHistoryNet (The National Historical Society)
World and American History, aviation and technology history, military history, and women's history.

The Internet Public Library: Select History from the Arts and Humanities.

Google Internet Search Engine.

Primary Vs Secondary Materials

Selected Reference Sources:
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth Century Literature Criticism: Biographical Data and criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and short story writers. Subject access by both author and title. Latest volume contains cumulative index to all volumes.

Gale Literary Index provides an online index to the above resources.

Reference Sources for Historical Background

Great Events from History
Ref. D21.M344 vols. 1-4

1960's Counterculture in America
Ref. E169.O2 1997

American Decades
Ref. E169.12 .A419 1994 vols. 1-10

Dictionary of American History
Ref. E174.D52 1976

Civil Rights in America
Ref E184.A1.C47 2000 vols. 1-2

Papers of Martin Luther King
Ref. E185.97 K52.A2 1997 vols. 1, 3 and 4

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History
Ref.E185.E54 1996

Events That Changed America in the Nineteenth Century
Ref. E337.5.E9 1997

Events That Changed America in the Twentieth Century
Ref. E742.E84 1996

Sixties in America
Ref. E841.S55 1999 vols.1-3

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
Ref. 185.61E54 1992