Africa General:

• Africa Homepage - Index of Countries in Africa.
• African Studies Association
• BBC News - Africa - latest African news: breaking news, features, analysis and special reports and videos.
• The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960 - A searchable collection of thousands of rare photographs chronicling Europe's colonization of East Africa, from Northwestern University Library.

African American General:

• African American World - Includes sections of history, arts and culture, race and society, biographical profiles and more.
• Documenting the American South - Provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.
• 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.
• Associates of Arts in Art History: African Americans in the Visual Arts
• African American Art on the internet - Links to art galleries and individual artists' websites.
• African Art World.com - Paintings and photographs by African American artists.
• Black Film Center/Archive - An archival repository dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films.

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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 - Searchable by topic, place, or format, provided by east Carolina University.
• 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 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.
• Black Workers Resources - From UC Berkeley Labor Center.

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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African 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 Americans 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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