Alaska History Project is dedicated to the pursuit of any information or historical photographs documenting the involvement of Blacks in the history of Alaska. www.yukonalaska.com/akblkhist/index.html
Traces the history of the choir of former slaves who toured the US and Europe to raise funds to keep Fisk University operating. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a review of history and culture spanning almost one hundred years. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
This lesson planning site article, hosted by Education Worldweb, has 4 tests on African American history for students ranging from the 4th grade to the 9th. www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson052.shtml
During the 1850's, a black slave from Missouri claimed his freedom on the basis of seven years of residence in a free state and a free territory. Read the history of one of the most famous and controversial Supreme Court decisions ever taken and its effec odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/dred_scott/scottxx.htm
Information and analyses on the struggle for justice of nine teenage boys accused of the gang rape (in 1931) of two white girls in Alabama, and their several legal trials in the 1930s. www.law.umkc.edu/../projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
Provides memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, born in Augusta, Georgia in 1867; letters of Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, house slaves in Abingdon, Virginia; and a letter written by Vilet Lester, a slave in North Carolina from the Special Collections scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/../african-american-women.html
Through the years the story of the slave block has been kept alive by word of mouth among the inhabitants of the Shenandoah Valley. www.crowncity.net/auctionblock