The African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/introduction.html
“A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture…”
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture is the first Library-wide resource guide to the Library of Congress’ African- American collections. This site is very thorough as it covers nearly 500 years of the black experience in the western hemisphere. With information in the form of books, periodicals, prints, great photographs, music, film, and recorded sound, this website brings a vivid picture of the life and experiences of African Americans through the development of our country. Covering four areas in our history - Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA, the visitor is presented with information which can easily be located and viewed.

African American World
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
“From Sojourner Truth to Jacob Lawrence, discover the courage and talent that shaped the African American experience.”
The African American World website draws from both the PBS and NPR to present history and culture in a unique interactive format. The website is broken down into four main themes: History, Arts and Culture (as seen through books and music), Race and Society (mainly politics and religion), and Profiles (both past and present). Also included on this site is an interactive timeline that allows visitors to view information from the early days of slavery up to the present day. Of particular importance to the American History teacher is the “Reference Room” that houses approximately 350 articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the “Classroom” where one can find lesson plans on many fascinating subjects pertaining to African American history and slavery.

Brown v. Board of Education Online Archives
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/index.html/
“Welcome to the University of Michigan Library’s Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive. This archive contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.”
The American Civil Rights Movement succeeded by combining the voice of the people in the streets and the courtroom. Brown v. Board of Education Online Archives captures the legal aspects of this historic struggle. The site houses court case transcripts, case summaries, images, and current civil rights events. The material is easily accessible. For students unable to decipher the intricate wording of Supreme Court decisions, the designers included summaries that outline the case background, the decision, and its civil rights impact. Furthermore, this site contains links to other sources for civil rights information and court cases.

The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html
“The 9th and 10th Cavalries' service in subduing Mexican revolutionaries, hostile Native Americans, outlaws, comancheros, and rustlers was as invaluable as it was unrecognized. It was also accomplished over some of the most rugged and inhospitable country in North America. A list of their adversaries - Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Victorio, Lone Wolf, Billy the Kid, and Pancho Villa - reads like a ‘Who's Who’ of the American West.”
The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier, sponsored by the International Museum of the Horse, provides an overview of the 9th and 10th U. S. Cavalry in the American West. The website relates the story of the Buffalo Soldiers in a very informative and entertaining manner. Accompanied by pictures and an extensive bibliography, this site serves as a starting point for those wishing to learn more about African American soldiers in the West.

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
“Documenting the American South (DAS), an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.”
It is very difficult to summarize the wide array of possibilities that this website has for research and pedagogical needs. Documenting the American South is a database filled with primary documents and images from the colonial period of North Carolina and the South until World War 1. The categories include “First Person Narratives of the American South,” “Library of Southern Literature,” “North American Slave Narratives,” “The Southern Home front,” “The Church in the Southern Black Community,” “The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940,” and “North Carolinians and the Great War.” With a plethora of first hand accounts, students, teachers, scholars can explore these issues from the viewpoint of African Americans, Euro-Americans, women, and men. Needless to say, this site can prove invaluable to those researching topics in the South during this time period.

Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html
“The contents of this package have been developed to stimulate in students and teachers a desire to discover and uncover the fascinating history of a unique community, Harlem.”
Compiled and written by Nashormeh N. R. Lindo and supported by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community contains primary documents, text, images, and lesson plans about Harlem. Although the site does not have an extensive collection of primary documents, those that are provided richly illustrate the history of this community. For instance, browsers can access History of the NAACP by Mary White Ovington that describes the early days of this organization. In addition to primary documents, the website has narratives and images of important people, places, and events. Harlem notables like Madame C. J. Walker, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and Augusta Savage receive ample attention. Yet, historical sketches are not limited to positive moments. Browsers will also encounter tragic events that Harlem residents faced. Finally, teachers will find a lesson plan on utilizing photographic evidence and print-outs on the “do’s and don’ts” of oral history.

NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African Americans
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
“The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library is pleased to offer this selection of images of 19th-century African Americans. They are presented in the hope that they will at one and the same time address some of your viewing, research, education and study needs and introduce you to the various types of visual images on the African-American experience.”
These collections of photographs capture African American history and life in a way that textual rendering cannot. There are countless clichés about the power of visual images, that a picture tells a thousands words and so forth, and these images substantiate any such statements. These photographs are powerful and a supplement for lesson plans that should not be overlooked. The images are divided into the following categories: Civil War, Cultural Expression, Education, Family, Genre, Labor, Organizations and Institutions, Politics, Portraits of Men, Women, Children and Groups, Reconstruction, Religion, Slavery and Social life and Customs. They may also be searched by collection. The introductory remarks in the Introduction and Searching the Past sections are also worth looking at for a better historical perspective on the images and their historical context.

Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/blackloyalists/index.htm
“Between 1783 and 1785, more than 3000 Black persons came to Nova Scotia as a direct result of the American Revolution. They came from slavery and war to take control of their lives, making choices within the limits they faced.”
Sponsored by the Nova Scotia Museum and Department of Canadian Heritage, Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia gives browsers the history of black loyalists who fled to Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. Having fought for or supported the British Empire during the conflict, these individuals faced re-enslavement after the departure of the British military. Finding solace in Nova Scotia, the settlers began the long and arduous process of establishing communities in their new homeland. This website includes their story, as well as images, documents, and recordings.

This Far by Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith
“This Far by Faith examines the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. . . . This Far by Faith explores the connections between faith and the development of African-American cultural values.”
This Far by Faith traces the trends of African-American spirituality from their African roots to contemporary society. The material includes information on major events, documents, movements, organizations, and people in African-American history, including Dred Scott v. Stanford, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Briggs v. Elliott and Brown v. Board of Education, Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and Kwanzaa. Moreover, the text precedes the Atlantic slave trade, so browsers can learn of the religions, languages, and cultures that accompanied the African slaves to America. Finally, the information is accessible to a wide audience. Browsers can read narratives, listen to recordings or watch video clips, or examine digital images.

Through the Lens of Time:
Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/cook/
"Search or browse nearly 300 images of African Americans dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth century from the Cook Collection of Photographs…”
This joint project between VCU Libraries and the Valentine Richmond History Center provides an opportunity to examine historical photographs from the area of the Richmond and Central Virginia area. All of the prints found on this website were taken from the collection by George S. Cook (1819-1902) and Huestes P. Cook (1868-1951). Of the 10,000 negatives in the entire collection, 300 have been scanned into digital format provided quality pictures of African Americans during the time before, during, and after the Civil War. Of particular interest to the visitor is that where some of the pictures are of spontaneous moments, others have been staged. This provides an opportunity to view some prevalent stereotypes of the times, as represented and depicted in the staged pictures.