The Walnut Hills High School library has a a rich collection of books about African American history and culture. Check these first! We also have many books by African American authors. There are many websites on African American History as well. The following are a few of the best.
Encyclopedia Britannica- A good general online enyclopedia with articles on all aspects of African American culture. You will have to choose this off the InfOhio menu; A username and password to access the INFOhio Electronic Resources is available from the school library media center. Due to regulations from INFOHIO, we can no longer provide this to you online.
African American History and Culture- An online database of African American history and culture, with links to biographies, articles, recommended websites, historical documents, and more. From home: user ID: walnut passwords: hills.
African
American Almanac
http://www.toptags.com/aama/
Biographies, historical documents and events, folk tales, trivia
games, and speeches and commentary by and about the African American
experience.
American National Biography- Biographies of famous Americans, including African Americans. This link will take you to the main Infohio Home page; click on American National BIography from this menu to get in. Note: You must be dead to be included in this database.
Student Resource Center- Biographies of many famous people, living and dead, with links to magazine and newspaper articles about them.
African-American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
This on-line exhibition, compiled by the Library of Congress,
uses vintage maps, government documents, book covers, sheet music,
and other items to chart the course of African-American history
from slavery through the civil rights movement. The items are
divided into nine timeperiods, and captions and introductory essays
put the images in historical context.
Digital
Schomburg Images of 19th Century African Americans
http://149.123.1.8/cgi-shl/vsc30b.exe/schomburg/images_aa19/toc.html?E+nyplbeta
In this on-line exhibit, the Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture presents hundreds of engravings and photographs
of African Americans in the nineteenth century. These images are
organized by subject, such as the Civil War, family, religion,
and slavery.
The African-American
Journey
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/
This site presents an overview of African-American history through
short historical and
biographical articles taken from the World Book Encyclopedia.
Look under "Archived Features" and click on African
American History.
The African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
"A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black
history and culture."
Black
History
http://blackhistory.eb.com/
FromEncyclopedia Britannica, this site highlights famous African
American people and events in the fields of art, education, literature,
politics, science and sports.
From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/crow/student.html
A retrospective of the African American Experience from 1897 to
1953.
Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
The on-line counterpart to the PBS television series Africans
in America, this exhibit provides anin-depth look at slavery in
the U.S. through interviews with contemporary historians; short
biographical and historical essays; and paintings, advertisements,
and other images.
Excerpts
from Slave Narratives
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
Here the University of Houston's history department offers excerpts
from slave narratives.
American
Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
This site features the text of thirteen interviews with former
slaves that were conducted by theWorks Progress Administration
in the late 1930s.
Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
http://www.ibiscom.com/slaveship.htm
Read about what Reverend Robert Walsh observed on a slave ship
off the African coast in 1829.
.History
of the Missouri Compromise
http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/mcomp.htm
This site provides a summary of the act and how it affected slaves
and freemen.
The Underground
Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html
From National Geographic, take this virtual journey along the
Underground Railroad as if you were a slave choosing to run for
freedom. NOTE:This site may load very SLOWLY depending on your
computer.
The Amistad Case
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/amistad/home.html
This interactive exhibit by the National Archives and Records
Administration tells the story of theslave ship Amistad. It contains
key documents from the 1841 landmark court case.
The Amistad Supreme Court Decision
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/amistad.html
Full text of the decision is available online as well as an initial
summary of the decision.
The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html
This exhibit, designed by the International Museum of the Horse,
explains the history of the
Buffalo Soldier calvary units through vintage photographs and
illustrations.
Integration
of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/integration/IAF-FM.htm
Here the Center of Military History presents the full text of
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965, a book written for
the center by Morris J. MacGregor Jr. As he writes in his foreword,
MacGregor covers "the fall of the legal, administrative,
and social barriers to the black American's full participation
in the military service of his country."
The United States Colored Troops in
the Civil War
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/data.htm
Review the history of regiments and the African American men who
fought in the Civil War.