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Curriculum Connections African History Resources

	African History and the Afro-American Experience
	Selected Online Resources Africa South of the Sahara A collection of web resources on the countries and regions of Africa and a variety of topics pertinent to them, including current events, human rights, foods, and music. Maintained by the curator of the African collection at Stanford University Libraries. Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List This directory is maintained by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It provides links to sites with information on a wide variety of topics related to Africa, including arts and architecture, law, relief work and women's issues. African American History and Studies - Directory of Online Resources A directory of resources concerning a variety of topics in African-American history. African-Americans in World War II A brief pictorial presentation of African-Americans serving in WWII. African-American Mosaic A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the study of Black History & Culture. The guide focuses on four area of the Library's collection: Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA. African National Congress Home Page Official web site for the ANC, which works for political equality for Blacks in South Africa. Ambush in Mogadishu 1993 Links to a report on the ambush; presented by PBS. Contains interviews, photographs and historical context of the incident. American Experience: Citizen King This site is a companion to the PBS program which examined Martin Luther King's role as a reformer. Egyptian State Information Service The web site for the Egypt State Information Service is the nation's main informational, awareness and public relations agency. From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History A directory of images from the Library of Congress. This site is part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, which has digitized a significant portion of the Library's collection. Internet African History Sourcebook Maintained by Fordham University, this site contains links to historical documents, articles and web sites concerning the history of human societies in the continent of Africa. Rwanda Genocide 1994 Web site for the PBS/Frontline program on Rwanda genocide, "Ghosts of Rwanda." Includes interviews, analysis, a timeline and a section on Rwanda today. See the related link, "The Triumph of Evil" Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries A web site with raw data concerning slave ship movement between Africa and Americas. Maintained by the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Curriculum Connections: History - General Interest Sources More helpful history sites.

Selected Print Resources The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History  REF 973.0496 ENC A Chance to Make Good: African Americans, 1900-1929 REF 973.0496 YOU The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The African-American Struggle Against Discrimination, 1856-1954 305.896 WOR The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country 920.0092 GAT Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide REF 960 FAL Africa, 2003 REF 960 AFR African-American Culture and History: A Student's Guide REF 973.0496 AFR A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement From 1954 to 1968 323.1196 MCW Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas REF 973.0496 ENC African Literature and its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them REF 809.896 WOR In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, 1916-1966 326.0973 MEL Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration: Greenwood Milestones in African American History REF 307.2 ENC Slavery and the Making of America 973.0496 HOR