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African American History ~ selective list of recent McIntyre Library books and media
The African diaspora : African origins and New World identities / edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui. E29.N3 A49 2001
Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it / [compiled by] Herb Boyd, foreword by Gordon Park. E185 .A97 2001
A. Philip Randolph, pioneer of the civil rights movement [computer file] / Paula F. Pfeffer.
ONLINE NetLibrary bookBackfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement / David Chalmers
HS2330.K63 C487 2003Crossing boundaries : comparative history of Black people in diaspora / edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod. E29.N3 C76 2001
Everything but the burden : what white people are taking from Black culture / edited by Greg Tate. E185.615 .E86 2003
From bondage to liberation : writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700 to 1918 / edited and narrated by Faith Berry. PS509.N4 F76 2001
Hard road to freedom : the story of African America / James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton.
E185 .H643 2001Major problems in African-American history : documents and essays / edited by Thomas C. Holt, Elsa Barkley Brown. E185 .M35 2000
To make our world anew : a history of African Americans / edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis.
E185 .T68 2000The Routledge atlas of African American history / Jonathan Earle. REFERENCE E185 .E125 2000
Young, Black, rich, and famous : the rise of the NBA, the hip hop invasion, and the transformation of American culture / Todd Boyd. New Book Shelf, 1st floor GV889.26 .B69 2003
Black history bulletin. Journals, Current v.65 (2002) -
The murder of Emmett Till [videorecording] / a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; a production of WGBH, Boston. IMC Videotapes E185.61 .M89 2003
Richard Wright's Almos' a man [videorecording] / a production of Learning in Focus ; teleplay by Leslie Lee ; produced by Dan McCann ; and directed by Stan Lathan. IMC Videotapes PS3545.R815 A56 2000
Religion in black & white [videorecording] / Polis Center. IMC Videotapes BL65.R3 R42 2003
Two towns of Jasper [videorecording] / Two Tone Productions ; produced in association with the Independent Television Service and the National Black Programming Consortium ; directors/producers, Whitney Dow and Marco Williams. IMC Videotapes HV6534.J363 T86 2003
Subject(s): Blacks--America--History.
African Americans--History.
Blacks--Latin America--History.
Blacks--Caribbean Area--History.
African Americans--Ethnic identity.
African diaspora--History.
African American History ~ online collections and resources
African American Web Connection (AAWC). An excellent starting point, this site includes links to arts & poetry, authors, organizations, lists of prominent people, businesses, entertainment, and has a particularly excellent series of pages on history.
Academic Info African American History & Studies - Directory of Online Resources
Sections include: digital publications, historic African Americans, Martin Luther King, Jr., Slavery, Civil War, civil rights movement, jazz, museums, and teaching resources.Our Shared History, African American Heritage A comprehensive project of The National Park Service to preserve and interpret African American history.
Gateway to African-American History, Dept. of State From the Office of International Information. Established to assist an " international audience in acquiring information on the rich and varied contributions of African-Americans to the culture and history of the United States and the world. Updated throughout the year, the Gateway includes documents, articles, Internet sites and other resources which honor and acknowledge the accomplishments of African-Americans. Each year the Gateway features African-American History Month -- which is celebrated during the month of February in the United States. The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH) celebrates this occasion by designating a theme. . . ."
African American Odyssey Library of Congress exhibit retrospective which included more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, and plays in the largest black history exhibit ever presented by the Library. Exhibition overview Good source for bibliographic and scholarly research on areas of slavery, free blacks in the Antebellum period, the Civil War, Reconstruction, booker T. Washington era, WWI, Depression, WWII, Civil Rights
African American Perspectives Pamphlets Home Page American Memory Project, Library of Congress. The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. Search by keyword; browse a subject or author index.
The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Center for Nonviolent Social Change. This is the official MLK historical site. Provides links to the King Papers Project (at Stanford), a 2,700-item bibliography, photographs, and much more. Access: http://www.thekingcenter.com/.
Museum of Afro American History, Boston
Louisiana State University Digital Library Collections Searchable online oral histories. Extensive online descriptions of contents of the digital collections. Listen to selected interviews using Real Player; link to other similar documents in the LSU digital collection by subject headings. Rights: Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.
Civil Rights
Background information
FEDLAW links to Laws and Regulations regarding Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunity, and Discrimination
LII Legal Information Institute Civil Rights: an overview
Federal government
United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
The United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the Executive Branch, first established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957. On November 30, 1983, a new Commission was established under the Civil Rights Act of 1983 (P.L. 98-183).
Current publications available online, with a link to ordering information, for example, Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination: The Los Angeles Report*
United States Information Service / Department of State (USIS)
InfoUSA "Authoritative resource for foreign audiences seeking information about American society, political processes, official U.S. policies and culture."
Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (report)
Library materials | Online collections and links | Civil rights
For additional information:
Also see links on Dr. Ducksworth-Lawton's web pages UW-Eau Claire
ACRL bibliography: Internet Resources: African American Culture (1999) http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues1999/january1/africanamerican.htmFor Research help: library.reference@uwec.edu
Updated: 02/02/2004
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