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 Black History Month Gateway Links
To observe Black History Month, we offer several fine "gateways" to many, many excellent websites on Black history, particularly biographies of African-Americans in the arts, sports, science, entertainment, and politics.
- The Niagara Movement (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_niagara.html), founded in 1905 by writer W.E.B. Dubois and others.
- Awesome Stories.com's Black History Month (http://www.awesomestories.com/sample_topics/black_history.shtml) More than 20 excellent websites are listed.
- African-American World
Find information on history, arts, culture, and more from this PBS website. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
- Patchwork of African-American Life
This main site features six Web sites that were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning. African-American History was chosen as a topic because of its importance, popularity and the wealth of Internet resources available on the topic.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
- Black History from the Librarians' Internet Index
This site contains extensive and categorized resources related to Black History Month and Beyond.
http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/search?action=show;search=black%20history%20month;searchtype=keywords
- The History Channel: Black History Month
February marks the beginning of Black History Month - an annual celebration that has existed since 1926. But what are the origins of Black History Month?
http://www.historychannel.com/blackhistory/
- The Internet African-American History Challenge
An interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of African-American History. It's an "open book" test. So if you're not sure of an answer, you can check our reference material for help. Level I is the easiest and has 7 questions while levels II & III have 10 questions each and are a bit more challenging.
http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/
- The African-American Mosaic Exhibition @ the Library of Congress
The exhibit covers only four areas --Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA-- of the many covered by the Mosaic. These topics were selected not only because they illustrate well the depth, breadth, and richness of the Library's black history collections, but also because of the significant and interesting interplay among them.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
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