Recommendations

by Lisa Guernsey
New York Times

The African American Mosaic

This is one of several resources on black history at the Library of Congress. (Another is the African American Odyssey)

Highlights in Mosaic include photographs and historic documents that help tell of events like the colonization of Liberia by free blacks in the early 1800's and the founding of places like Nicodemus, Kan, one of the towns established by blacks after the Civil War.

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Afro-American History
www.aawc.com/aah.html
While this site may not be as lacquered as some of the others, it highlights interesting links. Click on Black History Month and you will be led to early black communities in Nova Scotia, for example, and by books by black Canadians.

"Whether you are interested in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry or a historical resource on the Gullah culture, this site can guide you there," Mr. Wilson said.

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Gateway To African-American History
www.usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis
Created by the State Department's International Information Programs, this has links to bibliographies, archival and research sites, presidential speeches, and full text versions of government reports, and topics like the Amistad revolt, the civil rights movement and President Clinton's "National Conversation on Race."

A link is also provided to the Association for the study of Afro-American Life and History.

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