Africa General:

• Africa Homepage - Index of Countries in Africa.
• African Studies Association
• Africa Within - A comprehensive and well organized web site of Africa studies.

African American General:

• African Americans - A brief introduction to African American.
• African American World - Includes sections of history, arts and culture, race and society, biographical profiles and more.
• Black Studies - Reference and research, by CCNY Libraries.
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century - A pictorial database designed to highlight the "social, political, and cultural" life of the black Americans in the nineteenth century, from the New York Public Library.
• National Association of African American Studies.

African American Art:

• Art Access - African American Art - The Art Institute of Chicago's collection of African American art, an introduction to over 100 years of noted achievements in painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
• African American Art on the internet - Links to art galleries and individual artists' websites.
• African Americans in the Visual Arts - A historical perspective of African Americans in visual Art.
• African Art World.com - Paintings and photographs by African American artists.

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African American History:

General

• African American Archaeology, History and Cultures -Links to bibliographies, research institutes, and heritage sites, from a University of Illinois anthropology professor.
• African American History articles - Full text articles on African American Issues.
• The African-American Mosaic - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture.
• African-American Odyssey - A Special Presentation of the Library of Congress exhibition, explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century.
• African American Perspectives - Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Mur ray Collection, 1818-1907; present a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, by the Library of Congress.
• Africans in America (PBS Series) - America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts.
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) -a list of the Black History Month themes for the years 2002-2010 and information about the annual essay contest for all full-time graduate and undergraduate students.
• Black History Quest - African-American History, Culture, and Black Studies Resources.
• Black History Hotlist - Resources come from all over the Internet on African-American history and issues.
• BLACK PAST.ORG: Remembered & Reclaimed - An online reference center of materials on African American history.
• History in African American World - Timeline, reference room, classroom and more.

  Civil Rights Movement & Labor History

• Civil Rights Era - A Timeline in African American world.
• African American Labor History Links - Links to Web sites, journal articles, book excerpts, and film citations and reviews about the history of African Americans in the labor union movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike at which he was assassinated, and African American history in general.

Regional History

• The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 - A selection of manuscript, printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920.
• African Americans in the Columbia River Basin - Information about the history of African Americans in the Columbia River Basin area of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington state.
• Museum of Afro American History Boston - "Dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New England."

  Religion History

• African American Religion, Pt. I: To the Civil War - by Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• African American Religion, Pt. II: From the Civil War to the Great Migration, 1865-1920 - by Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Islam in America: From African Slaves to Malcolm X - by Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association - by David Van Leeuwen, National Humanities Center.
• This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys - "Examines the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries."

  Slavery

• Born in Slavery - Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. It contains first-person accounts of slavery and black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
• In Motion: The African American Migration Experience - Timeline for African American Migration.
• North American Slave Narratives - A collection of books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
• Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 - Over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States, by the Library of Congress.

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Africa American Literature:

• aalbc.com: African American Literature Book Club - A source of critical reviews of books by and about African American Authors.
• African American Literature Online - A comprehensive guide to African American Literature during the Twentieth Century.
• African American Women Writers of the 19 Century - Citation list, bibliographies and digital collection of black female writers in 19 century.
• Beloved Homework online - Summaries and explanations, character analysis, discussion of themes, a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions, and much more.
• Black Books - Required reading in African-American literature.
• Profiled Author's Index - A list of authors profiled on AALBC.com
• Web Resources on African American Writers and Literature - Links to resources on African American writers and literature.
• Writing Black - Literature and history written by and on African Americans, by Keele University.

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African American Women:

• African American Feminism - A bibliography on African American feminism and related links.
• Black American Feminism : A Multidisciplinary Bibliography - Compiled by Sherri L. Barnes, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Black Women in History - A list of biographies and links to resources about important black women in history.
• From Slave Women to Free Women : The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era - An article by Noralee Frankel, Prologue, Summer 1997, Vol. 29, No. 2.
• Women of Color, Women of Words - A site dedicated to African American women who have gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words, by Rutgers University.
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays - A selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist at American Memory Collection, Library of Congress.

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African American Scientists:

• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences - Biographical information on "African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering."

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Statistics:

• Census Bureau Facts - Statistics of African American population in 2003.
• Facts on the Black or African American Population - From US Census Bureau.

African American in New Jersey:

• African and African American Studies Program in NJCU
• African American Historic Site: Burlington County, NJ
• Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History - A history of Blacks in New Jersey from the colonial period through the 1980s.
• The Lee Hagan Africana Studies Center - located in the Congressman Frank J Guarini Library on the campus of NJCU.

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