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Afro American Web Ring
The Afro American Web Ring contains a vast assortment (over 2,600) of African-American-related Web sites. It has links to clip art sites, black history software sites, and sites about the "Black Panthers."
( http://www.soulsearch.net/aawr/ )
BlackQuest-The Griot
BLACK QUEST is an African-American and black history resource Web site that was established by C. Arthur Blair, the Creator of the game BLACK QUEST-THE GRIOT, an educational and heritage game that introduces and reinforces the experiences, achievements, and contributions of African Americans. This site has links to social studies, black studies, general history, and African-American history learning resources.
( http://blackquest.com/index.htm )
African American Odyssey
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship is an exhibition that showcases the incomparable African-American collections of the Library of Congress. This site includes pictures from the collection and narratives about events in African-American history.
( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html )
W.E.B. Du Bois Learning Center
The W.E.B. Du Bois Learning Center contains an on-line Black Studies Self-Study Program. It also has links to various historical societies.
( http://www.duboislc.org/index.html )
Black Facts Online
This Web site contains information on black history.
( http://www.blackfacts.com/ )
American Slave Narratives-An Online Anthology
This Web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of American slave narratives and to see some of the photographs taken at the time the interviews were conducted.
( http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html )
Black Radical Congress
The Black Radical Congress is an organization that was founded in 1998 to forge African-American activists and scholars and various black organizations into a national movement to rebuild a leftist presence in Black America. It is trying to bring together black feminists, revolutionary nationalists, socialists, and democrats to work for fundamental social change in a patriarchal, white supremacist society.
( http://www.blackradicalcongress.org/ )
Bobby Seale Homepage
This is the Web site of the founding chairman of the Black Panther party. It contains pictures and information about the Black Panthers.
( http://www.bobbyseale.com/ )
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is one of the oldest civil rights groups in the United States. The official Web site contains information about local chapters and activities.
( http://www.naacp.org/ )
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE-Online)
Founded in 1942, CORE is the third oldest and one of the "Big Four" civil rights groups in the United States. From the protests against "Jim Crow" laws in the 1940s to the "Sit-ins" of the 1950s and the "Freedom Rides" of the 1960s, through the cries for "Self-Determination" in the 1970s and for "Equal Opportunity" in the 1980s, to the struggle for community development in the 1990s, CORE has championed true equality for all people. Their Web site contains links to other major mainstream civil-rights organizations.
( http://www.core-online.org/ )
Office of Minority Health
The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will address health disparities. This Web site features data sets and reports on minority health issues, resource links, etc.
( http://www.omhrc.gov/ )
The King Center
Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the leader of America's nonviolent movement for justice, equality, and peace. The Center's Web site contains resources and information about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
( http://www.thekingcenter.com/tkc/index.asp )