Web Sites about the African American experience

• African-American Mosaic:  A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture.

• African-American Odyssey:  Links to Library of Congress American Memory projects that relate to African-American history, including slave narratives, baseball history, Frederick Douglass papers, and pamphlet collections.
• African-American Perspectives: A Library of Congress American Memory project showcasing the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection.
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology: A sample of narratives from the 1936-1938 Works Progress Administration interviews of former slaves. Includes audio files, text, and photographs.
• Black Facts Online:  A searchable database of historical facts about African-American life, provided free by www.blackpeople.com.
• Historical Text Archive:  A searchable database of links, articles, and e-books, provided by historian Don Mabry.
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience:  A project of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Includes photographs, text, timelines, and maps.
• Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South: An archive about racial segregation laws created by the Virginia Center for Digital History at University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute. Includes oral history audio files, maps, city records, census materials, political materials, personal papers, newspapers, and images.

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