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Internet Resources
- African-American Arts, Culture, History
- African-American Biographies
(Biography Resource Center site sponsored by Thomson Gale)
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
(This site is part of the American Memory Project. The collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920.)
- African-American Women Writers (A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th Century African-American women writers.)
- African American Writers: Online E-texts (Site includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of African-American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to contemporary writers.)
- African Diaspora Film Festival
- African Diaspora Internet Resources
(Compiled by Columbia University Libraries.)
- The African Diaspora Research Project (ADRP) at Michigan State University
- "Ain't I a Woman?" Slavery and Freedom Literature
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
- Classic African American Literature
- Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project @ UCLA
- The Diaspora Through Time
- Drop Me Off in Harlem (A multimedia exploration of the Harlem Renaissance
(1920s-1930s). Listen to Duke Ellington's orchestra. Hear Langston Hughes
read his poems. Watch "Shorty" Snowden dance the Lindy Hop. See cultural,
social, and political establishments on an interactive map.)
- Exploring the Amistad Revolt
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
(Center is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information
concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction.)
- William P. Gottlieb: Photographs for the Golden Age of Jazz (Site includes
2,000 photos taken by writer-photographer William Gottlieb. From 1938 to 1948, the "Golden Age of Jazz," swing reached its peak and modern jazz developed.)
- Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community
- Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora
- Jazz and Race
- John Henrik Clarke Africana Library (A collection of digital historical texts, slave narratives, and periodicals, with bibliographies, links to other library catalogs with strong Africana collections, and links to unique projects, including one on African writing systems such as nsibidi (commonly seen in Cuban santería materials).
- Mapping Africa: Africa and the Diaspora Movement
- The Schomberg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
- Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
- Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Site from the University of Wisconsin makes available to registered users selected raw data on the slave trade to the Americas.)
- Slave Route Project
- Slave Studies.Net - Transatlantic Slave Trade (Site contains a selection of links with data sets or other resources on the transatlantic slave trade.)
- The Slave Ship Fredensburg (Site about the Danish-Norwegian slave ship Fredensborg that went down in a terrible storm on 1 December 1768.)
- A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie
- The W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research (Founded in 1975, the Institute is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of African American history.)
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