ABS Links. The following are links to sites we feel would be of interest to our membership. If you know of one you'd like us to consider, please forward the url to our Webmaster.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES 
African American Civil War Freedom Foundation and Museum
National memorial and museum for U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War


African American from the 19th Century
New York Public Library digital collections from the Schomburg


Africans in America
PBS site that chronicles the story of Africans in America from 1740 until 1865


Afro-American Almanac
Online historical presentation of the African in America

BlackFacts.com
A searchable database of facts on Black history


Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
Integrates the Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning

Black population data
Provides estimates from the Census Bureau

Carrying the Burden: The Story of Clyde Kennard
Site dedicated to the campaign to posthumously pardon the Mississippi civil rights activist

Documenting the American South
Collection of primary and secondary sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the Colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century

FamilyEducation.com
Articles and activities about diversity for teachers and parents to use with their students and children

Harlem 1900-1940
An online exhibition of photographs from the era of the Harlem Renaissance

Internet African-American History Challenge  
Learn African-American history in an interactive way

Library of Congress American Memory Project
Access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience

Library of Congress American-American Odyssey
Rare and unique additions to the Library of Congress' vast African-American collections

Multicultural Kids
Materials for preschool and elementary school students

Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History
Compendium of available web resources related to African-Americans


CIVIL RIGHTS
American Civil Liberties Union
Political action committe that investigates and challenges inequality

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Text of Supreme Court opinion in landmark civil rights case 
 

Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Stanford University's collection of papers, speeches, sermons and articles by and about the civil rights leader


The National Civil Rights Museum
Web version of the museum, located at the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated

Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education

Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Listing of historic sites

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Independent, bipartisan agency that investigates complaints of discrimination