Grace Abounding: Links

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Related External Websites

Africa Timelines: History, Orature, Literature, and Film, Central Oregan Community College

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections, Duke University

African-American World, PBS

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, PBS

Afri-classical: African Heritage in Classical Music

allAfrica.com

Alvin Ailey Dance Group

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology, The University of Virginia

Archives of African American Music and Culture

Art and Life in Africa Project, The University of Iowa, School of Art and History

The Black History Pages

BlackPressUSA

Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress

Free to Dance, Great Performances, PBS

Great Hymn to the Aten, translated by Wim van den Dungen

Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement

Gullah Music

Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University

The History Makers

Howard University Museum of Art

from I Hear America Singing; Profiles: Artists, Movements, Ideas; by Thomas Hampson (information on painter Henry Ossawa Tanner)

Jazz Roots, by Thomas L. Morgan

The King Center

The King Papers Project, The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Negro League Baseball

North American Slave Narratives, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina University Library

The Official Website of Malcolm X

Our Shared African-American Heritage, The National Park Service

Schomburg Center: African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Schomburg Center Digital Images of African-Americans in the 19th Century

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Schomburg Center: Harlem, 1900-1940

Smithsonian Institution, Timeline of African History

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, American Memory, The Library of Congress (contains examples of work songs and field hollers)

Testament to Bravery, PBS, by Charlayne Hunter-Gault (information about sculptor Edmonia Lewis)

Towards Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874