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African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During Reconstruction, African Americans in the South obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied.
African Americans have significantly improved their social and economic standing since the Civil War, and even more so since the Civil Rights Movement, and recent decades have witnessed the expansion of a robust, African American middle class across the United States.
The desperate conditions of African Americans in the South that sparked the Great Migration of the early 20th century, combined with a growing African American intellectual and cultural elite in the Northern United States, led to a movement to fight violence and discrimination against African Americans that, like abolitionism before it, crossed racial lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American (3400 words)



MedlinePlus: African-American Health

Melanoma in African Americans (American Academy of Dermatology)
African Americans Unaware of High Kidney Disease Risk (03/08/2004, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans, 2005-2006 (American Cancer Society) - Large PDF file

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/africanamericanhealth.html (918 words)



Communist Party USA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of political parties in the United States
The Party devoted much of its energy in the early years of the Great Depression to organizing the unemployed, attempting to found "red" unions, championing the rights of black Americans and fighting evictions of farmers and the working poor.
House Committee on Un-American Activities, which forced Communists and their allies either to recant and name names or face blacklisting, made even brief affiliation with the CPUSA or any related groups grounds for public exposure and attack, inspiring local governments to adopt loyalty oaths and investigative commissions of their own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Communist_Party (918 words)



African American Literature

Extensive list of web sources on African American literature, a selected bibliography of materials available in the Middle Tennessee State University library, with links to author information on the internet, and more.
Includes "A Brief history of African Americans in West Virginia," "A Timeline of West Virginia African American History," "African Americans in the Counties of Present Day West Virginia in 1860," "Biographies of Prominent African Americans in West Virginia," and "History of the American Negro: Vol.
The Circle Association is a brotherhood of African American men based in Buffalo, New York who, among other activities, maintain web sites on African American themes and issues, including one for the Harlem Renaissance.

http://www.bluefield.wvnet.edu/library/afamlinks.htm (3550 words)



KET Black History Links

This comprehensive collection of award-winning documentaries traces the struggles of African Americans to gain rights in the areas of education, work, and full legal equality under the Constitution.
The Road to Freedom: A Documentary History of African Americans
African Americans and related topics profiled in the series have included sculptor Ed Hamilton, Chautauqua performer Hasan Davis, the Negro Leagues’ Lexington Hustlers, Camp Nelson, the Emma Reno Connor Black History Gallery, and the Affrilachians—African Americans raised in Eastern Kentucky.

http://www.ket.org/Education/IN/blackhistory.html (2081 words)



African/African American Resources

African Americans in the Santa Clara Valley--The Coalition of African American organizations was formed to unite African Americans in Sacramento to work on common agendas, and to eleminate the social ills that affect the African American community.
List of African films and videos from the University of Wisconsion- Madison.
African American IssuesCurrently showing a host of articles: Black History Articles on Contemporary African-American History Makers, African Science Before The Birth Of The "New" World.

http://ss.uno.edu/SS/homePages/MCProj/AfrAm.html (4347 words)



Cyndi's List - Native American

Native American, African American, Black Indians, East Indians, Anglo-Indians, Anglo-Asians & other Mixed Bloods.
A listing of Cherokee still living in 1851 who were all ready residing in Oklahoma when the main body of the cherokee arrived in the winter of 1839, as a result of the Treaty of New Echota (1835).
List of Indian students of various tribes at the Choctaw Academy in Scott County, Kentucky in 1838.

http://www.cyndislist.com/native.htm (4376 words)



African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective

Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Providence, New York, Hartford, and New Orleans were among the growing places where African-Americans could receive training -- but within the limits of what was acceptable as worthy of distinction in a market dominated by European influences.
This period in American history was extremely uplifting to African-Americans as a people.
Before the 70's ended, the African American visual artists had acquired a full range of mixed lessons coming from their environmental encounters and their experimentation with free expressions.

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm (12892 words)



Internet Resources -- Deafness

There is a nice library topic section for ideas on research papers, also a list of signs one can view.
Exploring African American History-Created by a student at Gallaudet U. Has info about Deaf African Americans.
Western Oregon University Internet Resources-Quite comprehensive listing of links.

http://wally.rit.edu/internet/subject/deafness.html (2942 words)



The Hostages and The Casualties

Thirteen women and African-Americans among the Americans who were seized at the embassy were released on Nov. 19 and 20, 1979:
Ages in this list are at the time of release.
Sixty-six Americans were taken captive when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, including three who were at the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/list_of_hostages.phtml (573 words)



African American Web Sites

The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) is dedicated to collecting preserving and interpreting the material and intellectual culture of African Americans in Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Americas.
A list of African and African American centered libraries and collections in the U.S. compiled by the Ohio State University Black Studies Library.
African American Association of Innkeepers International (AAAII) (http://www.africanamericaninns.com/)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/caas/projects/aawebsites.html#Organizations?CFID=778142&CFTOKEN=86062958 (3213 words)



Internet Sources of Interest to H-AFRICA Subscribers

This electronic news medium is published in Houston, Texas and seeks to be the primary professional source of news for Africans and Americans.
Ali Ali-Dinar, who is the Outreach Director of the African Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, maintains the ASA home page on behalf of the ASA's Electronic Technology Group.
The Southeast Regional Seminar on African Studies is arguably the most active regional group of Africanists in the United States outside the African Studies Association.

http://www.h-net.org/~africa/internet (2386 words)



The New African American Writers of Mississippi by C. Liegh McInnis - Art Changes / In Motion Magazine

poem is undeniably black as well as it shows the evolution of young African American Mississippians frustrated with the whole notion of the inertia of the Black Southern Church and its inability to address the concerns of African Americans falling prey to the urbanization of the State.
African American women flock to hear her tales of broken hearts, female sexuality, and the black woman has the mother of the Earth.
Other African American writers might argue that their glass ceiling and artistic limitations are just as confining, but their is no evidence of other African American writers being as tied and limited by the past as African American Mississippi writers.

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/naawm.html (6670 words)



African American History

Digital archive of newspapers, manuscripts and other material documenting the experiences of African American slaves in California.
Artifacts are from the 19th and 20th centuries and depict African American heritage in the Midwest and the World." Focus on African Americans in Missouri.
Exhibition at the Library of Virginia covering Gabriel's Conspiracy in 1800, Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 and the Harpers Ferry raid of 1859.

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html (1497 words)



Possible Nominees to the Supreme Court

He was one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the Bush administration and if appointed to the court, would be the third African American justice.
Emilio M. Garza, 57, is a judge for U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and has been on the short list for a Supreme Court nomination before.
And he represented Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of selling government secrets to Israel, in his failed bid for a reduction of his life sentence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070100756.html (3234 words)



African American History

It consists of test questions based on the lives of important 19th century African Americans.
The site also contains Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last public speech in support of the sanitation workers and links to other African American labor history web sites.
Brief Summary - An excerpt on African American art taken from Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

http://www.aawc.com/aah.html (877 words)



Bios of African Americans in History - EnchantedLearning.com

Attucks was the American son of a native African father and a woman belonging to the Natick Indian tribe.
The results of his court case led to major political upheavals in the USA and eventually, the Civil War.
Drew, Charles R. Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950) was an American medical doctor and surgeon who started the idea of a blood bank and a system for the long-term preservation of blood plasma (he found that plasma kept longer than whole blood).

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/bios (3311 words)



Selected Bibliography, C.W. @ Charleston

This book, written for young readers, is a biography of a young African American who came South to teach the freed slaves at Port Royal, South of Charleston.
African American History Books Sale list from Shamrock Hill Books
An account of Manigalt's units actions defending the S.C. Coast.

http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/biblo.html (3311 words)



Colonial America 1600-1775, K12 Resources

A Hypertext on American History from the Colonial Period until Modern Times; oustanding collection of documents, essays, biographies, presidents
African American Odyssey: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution (Part 1)
The Roots of American Slavery; A Bibliographical Essay

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm (2412 words)



africanamericanwriters.html

Copage,Eric V. Soul Food: Inspirational Stories For African Americans.
African American Women Talk About Sex,Love and Life.
Sister To Sister: Devotions From And For African American Women.

http://www.finkelsteinlibrary.org/africanamericanwriters.html (159 words)



African American: Definition and Much More From Answers.com

During Reconstruction, African Americans in the South obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied.
The desperate conditions of African Americans in the South that sparked the Great Migration of the early 20th century, combined with a growing African American intellectual and cultural elite in the Northern United States, led to a strengthening movement to fight violence and discrimination against African Americans.
Native Americans often took in runaway bondsmen and women and accepted them as members of their tribes, and there is a lengthy history of peaceful coexistence, intermarriage and fighting alliances against whites between Native Americans and African Americans.

http://www.answers.com/topic/african-american (2574 words)



Cultural and Ethnic Food and Nutrition Education Materials: A Resource List for Educators

Groups discussed include African Americans, Arab Americans, Chinese Americans, Cuban Americans, East Indian Americans, Filipino Americans, German Americans, Haitian Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish A mericans, Korean Americans, Mexican Americans, and Vietnamese Americans.
Abstract: North America is home to many different ethnic groups and is often referred to as a multicultural society.
Group discussion was facilitated using a series of Spanish-language videotapes that had been developed and previously tested in the target Mexican-American community.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/gen/ethnic.html (12219 words)



Black-White Relations: The American Dilemma

This stage in the process of ghetto formation increased black isolation to an extreme, and from this time forward African Americans in large northern cities were effectively removed -- socially and spatially -- from the rest of American society.
During the Reconstruction period (1865-1877), some attempts were made to extend various civil rights fully to African Americans, which led to the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, 1871 and 1875.
American scholars, both black and white, were excluded from the list of candidates, because they were thought to have too much prejudice to write an objective and fresh study.

http://www.oycf.org/Perspectives/4_022900/black_white.htm (12219 words)



African American Literature

Extensive list of web sources on African American literature, a selected bibliography of materials available in the Middle Tennessee State University library, with links to author information on the internet, and more.
Includes "A Brief history of African Americans in West Virginia," "A Timeline of West Virginia African American History," "African Americans in the Counties of Present Day West Virginia in 1860," "Biographies of Prominent African Americans in West Virginia," and "History of the American Negro: Vol.
The Circle Association is a brotherhood of African American men based in Buffalo, New York who, among other activities, maintain web sites on African American themes and issues, including one for the Harlem Renaissance.

http://www.bluefield.wvnet.edu/library/afamlinks.htm (3550 words)



Ghetto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1960s civil rights laws allowed wealthier African Americans to emigrate to formerly all-white areas, the result of which was that the economic bases of many ghettos collapsed, leaving them zones of below-average wealth, poorly-maintained housing, and high crime.
In the United States, between the abolition of slavery and the passing of the civil rights laws of the 1960s, discriminatory mores (sometimes codified in law) often forced urban African Americans to live in specific neighborhoods, which also became known as "ghettos".
The authorities deported Jews from everywhere in Europe to the ghettos of the East, or directly to the extermination camps -- almost 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto alone to Treblinka over the course of 52 days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto (3550 words)



Biography Collections: Special Collections

Very interesting site devoted to the 54th, a company of African-Americans who fought for the Union in South Carolina during the Civil War.
African-Americans also icludes the Internet African American History Challenge.
This online companion to Stanley Nelson's film traces the history of African American journalism, including mini-biographies, stories of a few newspapers, a timeline, teaching resources, links, etc.

http://www.amillionlives.com/Collect_spec.html (3550 words)



Integrate Project Examples of Greatness: A Study in the Lives of Famous African Americans

They receive an overview of the class project, a list of famous African Americans from that field, and a list of resources as a starting point to begin their research.
As a final project, students reflect on their thoughts about the contribution of African Americans to our history and society in an essay.
Examples of Greatness: A Study in the Lives of Famous African Americans

http://www.teacheruniverse.com/tools/integrate_projects/black_history.html (316 words)



Inventing Hispanics

Hispanic and Asian immigrants and their children (as well as most African Americans) support many of the same public policies (from reformed health insurance to better education, from less costly housing to better and more secure jobs).
Thirty years ago immigrants from Latin America who settled in the United States were perceived in terms of their home nation—as, for example, Cuban Americans or Mexican Americans, just as European newcomers were seen as Italian Americans or Polish Americans.
Amitai Etzioni is the author of The Monochrome Society.

http://www.brook.edu/press/REVIEW/winter2002/etzioni.htm (1793 words)



African Traditional Religion

Now is the time for spiritual, religious, and mental liberation of African Americans, from the hegemony of European (white) Christianity, and Arab white cultural forms of Islam.
Afrospirit-l is a private mailing list on African Traditional Religions for the discussion of: Traditional religious beliefs and practices of the various people in Africa.
Voodoo, Santeria and other religions with African roots are drawing followers in the United States among immigrants and black Americans interested in their ancestry, their leaders say.

http://afgen.com/religion.html (1793 words)



RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees No. 25

The vast majority of African Americans in the United States are descendants of the 400,000 black Africans who were transported to North America against their will.
GEN-AFRICAN : Gatewayed with the soc.genealogy.african newsgroup for the discussion of African genealogy.
Use the searchable databases and records that are online and take advantage of various mailing lists and newsgroups to find others researching the same and connecting families.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson25.htm (1793 words)