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African-American Research

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Websites

The below websites provide additional information on Africana and Black History.

The HistoryMakers

A video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history.  The collection focuses on African American history, education, music, law, the arts, science, technology, media, medicine, entertainment, fashion and beauty, business, the military, politics, and sports. 

 

African-American Odyssey

African American Odyssey

Part of the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress. 

 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving, and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.  A branch of the New York Public Library.

 

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

 

The National Museum of African American History and Culture-Smithsonian

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003 to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans.

 

 

The Legacy Museum(EJI)

The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opened to the public on April 26, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama, this museum is built on the site of a former warehouse where enslaved black people were imprisoned, and is located midway between an historic slave market and the main river dock and train station where tens of thousands of enslaved people were trafficked during the height of the domestic slave trade.