ALMANACS: (return to Index)

• Afro-American Almanac "AFRO-American Almanac provides an on-line study of the origin of the African in America." Includes online trivia quizzes, commentary, literary texts, folk tales, and feature articles. With links to related sites.
• Black Facts Online An almanac of Black history which is searchable by date or word. A search for the word "first" retrieved 95 screens of information on Black "firsts"..
• Black History Month A feature from the Information Please Almanac. Includes "a collection of features, biographies of notable African Americans, reference links, a Civil Rights Timeline, black history quizzes, and a crossword puzzle."
• Boynton's Calendar of African American History A calendar of significant events in African American history. Also features an archive of previous months and a list of hotlinks.
• The Negro Almanac: A Reference Work on the African American
  Compiled & Edited by Harry A. Ploski and James Williams (1989) PDF

BIBLIOGRAPHIES: (return to Index)

• All Music Guide includes biography and discography for individual performers and pages on musical genres, including: Reggae, Rap, Jazz and Gospel.
• Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson an online history of racial segregation of baseball--focusing on the achievements of Jackie Robinson.
• Black History from Britannica includes hundreds of biographies, articles, definitions of terms,and a timeline of significant events in the history of African Americans. Campus Access Only.
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences Biographies with illustrations and bibliography.
• Gale Salute's Black History Month page includes over sixty biographies, timeline, quizzes, and brief essays on Black authors from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature.
• Internet Movie Database includes a search feature by subject heading. Click on African-American for a list of films on that theme. Many entries for performers and crew have a biography available. See also All Movie Guide and Movie Database from TV Guide for biographies and filmographies of individual performers.
• Martin Luther King , Jr. Papers Project This Stanford site includes a biography of Dr. King, a searchable bibliography of writings about him, a chronology, and a large collection of his personal papers online.
• Negro League Baseball Archives Includes overview, teams, and biographies of individual players. Includes links to related resources
• The other King: How the real MLK and his causes have been obscured with all the ‘recognition’

DEMOGRAPHICS: (return to Index)

• American Factfinder--Results from the 2000 Census.
• The Black Population in the U.S.: Topics covered include Geographic Distribution, Marital Status, Educational Attainment, Family and Household Type, Labor Force Status, Occupational Distribution, Earnings, Family Income, and Poverty Status.
• Housing in Metropolitan Areas-Black Households: PDF file.
• Blacks in America-1992: PDF file.
• Black Americans-A Profile: PDF file.
• Celebrating Our Nation's Diversity: Lesson plans and materials to study US population including language spoken at home and images of population distribution by ethnicity or race.
• Digital Map of the United States by Professor William Bowen maps selected 1990 population variables (ancestry, race, income, poverty, adult educational attainment, and citizenship). Maps include country boundaries.
• Earnings by Occupation and Education 1990 "Earnings by Occupation and Education (SSTF22) provides data for the United States, all States, the District of Columbia and each metropolitan area for all persons 18 years and over in the experienced civilian labor force who worked with earnings in 1989." Data can be accessed by race and sex.
• Equal Opportunity Employment Data: occupation distribution and educational attainment data by sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Data available on a state, county, city, or MSA level.
• Historic Census Information, 1790-1860 Detailed census data by state and county. Includes total, white, free African American, and slave populations, churches, education and literacy, vital statistics, and economic data.
• Population Estimates by Age, Sex, and Race: 1990-1994 Population Estimates provides estimates of the population of counties and states by age,sex, and modified race and Hispanic Origin for 1990-1994.
• President's Initiative on Race. "This Initiative is a critical element in the President's effort to prepare our country to live as one America in the 21st century."

REFERENCE BOOKS: (return to Index)

REFERENCE TOOLS:

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DICTIONARIES: (return to Index)

SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES (return to Index)

• Code Names Dictionary: A guide    PE 1693 .R9
• Communications Standard Dictionary    TK 5102 .W37 1996
• Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions, and Abbreviations    TK 5102 .H453 1998
• Dictionary of Film & Television Terms     PN 1993.45 034 1983
• Dictionary of Quotations in Communications    P 90 .D488 1997
• Practical translator; a dictionary for journalism and the graphic arts. (En Espanol):Traductor práctico; diccionario para el periodismo y las artes gráficas    PN 4728 .P43
• The Communication Handbook: A dictionary     P 87 .5 .D 46 1986
• The Dictionary of Multimedia Terms & Acronyms    QA 76.15 H32 1997b
• Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications    P 87.5 W45 1990
• Webster's New World Dictionary of Music     ML 100 .S639 1998

ENCYCLOPEDIAS: (return to Index)

EXHIBITS: (return to Index)

• Aboard the Underground Railroad This site operated by the National Parks Service includes a virtual tour of sites. With pictures and descriptions of 21 sites on the National Register of Historic Places. See also the Directory of Underground Railroad Operators Organized by State and County
• African American Odyssey "Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections."
• African American Mosaic A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture.
• African American Perspectives A collection of pamphlets from the collections of the Library of Congress which documents African American history and culture.
• AFRO-Americ@'s Black History Museum Features a number of online exhibits on the Million Man march, Scottsboro Boys, Black Panther Party, African American participation in World War II, Tuskegee Airmen, and other topics.
• Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier An exhibit from the International Museum of the Horse which focuses on the African-American 9th and 10th cavalry regiments known as the "Buffalo Soldiers". These two regiments constituted about twenty percent of the cavalry forces on the western frontier until about 1890.
• Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection "at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance."
• George Washington and Slavery an online exhibit from Mt. Vernon includes pictures of the slave quarters, a census of slaves, and other information.

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HISTORY: (return to Index)

• The Great Lakes Patent and Trademark Center's African-American Inventors Database is a partnership between the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Detroit Public Library. This web site is "not (yet) comprehensive and concentrates on historical patentees."
• African-American Journey This online feature from World Book includes sections on the slave trade, the antislavery movement, Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction through World War II, and the Civil Rights movement. Also includes a history of Black History month.
• Africans in America Online companion to the PBS series. Includes biographies, primary source materials, interviews, and a teacher's guide.
• Afrigeneas focuses on genealogical research and resources in general and on African ancestry in particular.
• Amistad:
  • The Amistad Case (National Archives and Records Administration) includes overview, primary materials, learning activities.
  • Exploring Amistad includes primary and secondary materials on the case.
  • Amistad case: 'Outright Plagiarism' or 'Who Owns History?' includes court materials, background and other information on both the current plagiarism and the original trial and appeal to the Supreme Court.
• American Civil War An online feature from Encarta. With information on the growth of slavery, emancipation, timelines. Includes a map of the underground railroad. Encarta Online, an edited version of the CD-ROM, is freely searchable.
• Avalon Project from Yale Law School includes digitized versions of significant historic texts from 17th-20th centuries. Nineteenth century materials include U.S. Statutes on Fugitive Slaves and Slavery.
• Black History from Britannica includes hundreds of biographies, articles, definitions of terms,and a timeline of significant events in the history of African Americans. Campus Access Only.
• Census Schedules and Black Genealogical Research: One Family's Experience. Example of census schedule research.
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Systes (CWSSS) When completed, the CWSSS will include brief entries for all service personnel, North and South, who served in the Civil War. Search by Soldiers, Sailors, Regiments, Prisoners, Cemeteries, Battlefields, and Medals of Honor. The CWSSS site was launched with the U.S. Colored Troops database, but has expanded to include information on other regiments. To locate information on members of the U. S. Colored Troops, chose the link to Regiments and then choose "US Colored Troops" from the State (or Origin) pull-down menu. Brief regimental histories include links to names of individuals who served in those units. Entries for individual soldiers may include name, regiment company, side (Union or Confederate), rank, and citation to microfilm records. As of June 5, 2001, the Sailors database only included records for African American naval personnel. In addition, the site provides brief battle summaries by state or campaign, prison records for Andersonville and Fort McHenry, cemetary records for Poplar Grove National Cemetery (Petersburg NB).
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet -- African-American. Thinking about your family history and where to begin? Have a look at these links.
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project Excerpts from a multi-volume work which includes transcriptions of materials from the National Archives. "The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of that revolution by depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slave holders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners. "
• Freedmen's Bureau Records Includes transcriptions of "Marriage records, assaults and murders of Freedmen, work contracts, indentures of orphaned Freedmen, reports of conditions in the south following the end of the civil war." From Christine's Genealogy Website, which also features Slaves Mentioned in Wills and Emigrants to Liberia.
• Freedmen's Savings & Trust. Read the full-text Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration about this rich family history research collection.
• Freedom's Journal "the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829." Currently 20 of the 103 issues published are available online in .pdf format.
• George Washington: Father of Our Country
• Harlem Renaissance An online feature from Encarta which includes overview and biographies of some of the most significant artists, including Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.
• Institutions of Memory and the Documentation of African Americans in Federal Records. Full-text article from the National Archives quarterly magazine.
• Lest We Forget African-American History, Culture and Current Events. The site includes original material and links to related sites. Winner of numerous awards.
• Library of Congress Country Studies The Country Studies provide current information on 85 countries of the world. Each country study includes a history of both the country and its relations with other countries. Use the Search page to find information on the "slave trade" or other topics of interest.
• Making of America scanned and searchable versions of publications with imprints from 1850-1988 which document American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction with imprints between 1850 - 1877. Many of the materials deal with slavery and the abolition movement.
• OSSHE Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource Includes interactive and static maps on topics in European, North African, Middle Eastern, and North American history. The interactive maps require the Shockwave plugin. The site includes links to and instructions for configuring Shockwave. Worth the effort of configuring Shockwave to view interactive maps on topics such as the spread of slavery in North America.
• Power Links links to history resources from the creator of Black Quest: The Griot, a CD-ROM on the history of African Americans.
• Stamp on Black History This site for kids focuses on Black History as revealed through postage stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service. A ThinkQuest site. ThinkQuest promotes the use of the web as a learning tool. The pages are composed by students 12-19 and their teacher coaches.
• Valley of the Shadow an archive of information which documents two communities during the American Civil War. This fabulous site includes transcriptions of newspaper articles, diaries, church, military, and public records. Also includes maps and images. The communities are Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia---separated by the Mason-Dixon Line.
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement This page from the National Park Service National Register of Historic Places examines the historic sites of the Civil Rights Movement. Includes overview, maps, and background information for each site.

JOURNALS (Print) IN COMMUNICATIONS (return to Index)

• Argumentation and Advocacy
• Communication Education
• Communication Monographs
• Communication Quarterly
• Communication Reports
• Communication Studies
• Communication Yearbook
• Communications, Entertainment and Sports Section Newsletter
• Communications Lawyer
• Communications News
• Communications Outlook
• Critical Studies in Mass Communication
• Howard Journal of Communications
• Human Communication Research
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
• Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
• Journal of Communication
• Mass Communication Review
• Philosophy & Rhetoric
• Pike & Fischer's Desk Guide to Communications in Law Research
• Sight & Sound
• Studies in Communications
• The Quarterly Journal of Speech
• The Southern Communication Journal
• Volta Voices
• Western Journal of Communication

JOURNALS (PRINT) IN PERFORMING ART (return to Index)

• Comparative Drama
• Grants for Film, Media & Communications
• Performing Arts Journal
• TCI: The Business of Entertainment Technology & Design

LITERATURE: (return to Index)

• African-American Experience An electronic text collection from the Electronic Text Collection at the University of Virginia Library. Includes electronic texts prepared from manuscripts and published works. Features writings of Douglass, DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and others.
• Digital Schomberg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century A selection of 52 full text works from the collections of the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Another online feature includes Images of African Americans from the 19th Century.
• Douglass--Archives of American Address Significant oratory arranged by speaker, title, chronologically, or topic. Topics includes "Civil Rights of African Americans" and "slavery". The site includes significant biographical information on Frederick Douglass, in whose honor the archive was named.
• English Server, which publishes humanities texts online, has a section on Race in America.. The page includes the writings of Frederick Douglass and other notables.
• Literature OnLine (LION) Includes African-American Poetry (1750-1900) Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Campus Access Only..
• Quarterly Black Review of Books includes online reviews of fiction, poetry, children's books, and nonfiction.
• Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois
• W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center

PRINT RESOURCES: COMMUNICATIONS (return to Index)

• Communication Abstracts    Z 5630.C6
• Index to Journals in Communication studies through 1995 P 87 .M37 1997
• International Encyclopedia of Communications    P 87.5 I5 1989
• Lesly's Handbook of Public Relations Communications    HM 263 .L472 1990b

PRINT RESOURCES: MULTIMEDIA/COMMUNICATION ARTS(return to Index)

• Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video    P 87.5 .R44 1992
• Encyclopedia of Television News    PN 4888 .T4 E53 1999
• Film Literature Index
• Film Review Index
• Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
• The New York Times Theater Reviews

PRINT RESOURCES: JOURNALISM (return to Index)

• Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media
• The Encyclopedia of American Journalism

SLAVE NARRATIVES: (return to Index)

• African American Women: On-line Archival Collections Includes scanned image and text versions of slave letters and a memoir of the child of slaves.
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology. A University of Virginia project that uses WPA (Works Progress Administration) material.
• Documenting the American South Includes slave narratives, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and other primary historical material.
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives The extracts are grouped into topics: the passage on slave ships, conditions of life, family, religion, childhood, emancipation and others.

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: (return to Index)

• Historic Supreme Court Decisions by Topic Choose "Affirmative Action", "Civil Rights", "Slavery", "Segregation" and other topics to read the most important Supreme Court decisions.

WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD?  (return to Index)