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Web Sites
About.com Guide to
Race Relations
This is a wide ranging annotated overview, covering everything from Churches
and Faiths to Hip Hop/Urban Culture to Soldiers and Fighters.
The
African-American Mosaic:
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and
Culture
Includes information on African colonization, slavery and the abolitionist movement,
western migration and homesteading, and WPA documents (including ex-slave narratives).
African American Web
Connection
This hyperlinked site includes art, authors, businesses, churches, entertainment,
history, organizations, prominent people, publications, and other resources.
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Black
History Hotlist
This highly useful website provides links to
various Internet Black History resources.
Black Quest -
Power Resource Links
Chronology
of the History of Slavery
Compiled from archival, library and Internet
sources, this timeline can be used to research the history of African-American
slavery.
Hartford Black
History Project: A Struggle from the Start
This website presents a virtual exhibition of the history of
Hartford’s African-American community from 1638 to the present.
Surfing the Net
with Kids: Black History Month
This website, aimed at children, provides many useful Black History
links.
This Week in
Black History
This website, which is updated weekly, allows users to access the
compiler’s Black History Database for brief entries (for example, birth
dates, important events).
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Books
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Periodical and Newspaper Articles
The Hartford Public
Library offers electronic access to articles through its
iConn database service
for patrons of Connecticut libraries. You will need your library card to log
into the database from your home or office.
Listed below are some articles celebrating black history:
Black history month: focus on landmark school
desegregation case spurs blacks to continue pursuit of quality education,
civil rights. Jet, March 1, 2004 v105 i9 p6
Crowning moments: celebrating our achievements, both
past and present. (Common Ground) Caroline V. Clarke. Black
Enterprise, Feb 2004 v34 i7 p137
Top 10 black history titles for youth. Booklist,
Feb 15, 2004 v100 i12 p1073
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Government Documents
African-American History Month 50 Years of Change
This
Census Bureau site highlights the changes and improvements since
Brown v. the Board of Education. The following documents,
The
Black Population in the United States: March 2002, and
Facts for Features may be viewed with
AdobeAcrobat Reader (download free software.)
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of
Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result
of that work is the FREE web site. The site provides a page for
Black History Month
Resourses with a great number of educational links.
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Local Resources: Agencies, Organizations and Information
The
Connecticut Freedom Trail is a wonderful way to learn about African-American
history in Connecticut. There are special sites focusing on the
Amistad
Trail.
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Farmington Avenue and Forest Street, Hartford, CT
Phone: 860-525-9317
Open: Tues - Sat, 9:30 am - 4 pm; Sun 12 - 4 pm.
This fascinating house belonged to the staunch abolitionist Harriet Beecher
Stowe and is the site where she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
HartfordInfo is a Web site sponsored by the Hartford Public Library that
provides community and neighborhood statistics including demographic
information. The site is searchable by Neighborhood Revitalization Zone (NRZ)
and Census Block.
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