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- Biographies
- Jazz
Provides some insight into African American culture in the 20th Century through biographies. 2-01
- Multicultural Toolkit
Books
- Leadership of Z. K. Matthews, Nelson Mandela, and Stephen Biko (Questia.com - Juckes)
Provides the full text of the book, Opposition in South Africa.
"Fortunately, this is not a book about South Africa's present, but about its past, written in the belief that a better understanding of current changes is possible if we better understand the past. In particular, it is the story of three influential men who spent their lives in the pursuit of the democratic society that is now emerging. In their own way, in their own time, each is a hero of the struggle." 5-03
Lesson Plans
- African American Achievements (PBS TeacherSource)
Provides resources on well known African Americans and some key historical events related to African Americans. 11-01
- Preimplementation Genetic Diagnosis (Genetics and IVF Institute)
Describes the PGD procedure. "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) offers an alternative to more traditional methods of prenatal genetic testing (chorionic villous sampling or amniocentesis), and allows genetic analysis to be performed on early embryos prior to implantation and pregnancy. This provides couples at risk for certain genetic diseases the opportunity to know that any pregnancy they achieve should be unaffected." 6-02
Lists
- -Black History Resources (Seacoast NH)
 Provides over two dozen carefully chosen links to explore Black History.
- African American Family and History (Black Quest - Blair)
Provides articles of interest to the African American family, including information on ancient cultures.
- African American Heritage Books (New York Public Library)
- African American History (Gorski) 2-03
- African American Studies (Dinar)
- African American Women During the Civil War (University of Maryland)
- African Studies WWW Links
Provides links organized within three dozen subjects.
- Black History (AfricanAmerican.com)
Provides 16 carefully selected sources of information on African Amerians and Black History. 12-01
- Black History (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Provides hundreds of sources of information related to black history. Presents the resources by topic. Loads slowly. 2-01
- Black History - New Hampshire (SeacoastNH)
Provides sources of information related to black history on the eastern seacoast, especially New Hampshire.
- Black History - This Week in Black History (CLIMB)
- Black/African American Related Resources (Adinar)
- K-12 African American Resources
- K-12 African Studies
- King - Martin Luther, Jr: Links (Chico High)
- King - Martin Luther, Jr: Links (LSU)
- Kwanzaa (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 5-02
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- This Week in Black History (CLIMB)
Materials
- -Bias, Prejudice and Attitudes (IAT Corp and Tolerance.org - Greenwald and Banaji)
Provides a test of attitudes regarding age, race, gender, and obesity. Your responses are measured by your speed of associations. Most of us do have biases (preferences) that may conflict with our values. Biases can work invisibly and give us a tendency to treat others unfairly (with prejudice). By uncovering our biases, we can combat our prejudices more effectively.
News
- AIDS - Vaccine for AIDS Works (USA Today News - Sternberg)
 "Nearly two decades after the discovery of the AIDS virus, researchers Monday report for the first time that an AIDS vaccine can prevent infection but with sharply different success rates depending on race."
"The first full-scale human trial of the vaccine, AIDSVAX, indicates that although the vaccine failed to protect whites and Hispanics, it appears to be effective in Asians and blacks. Blacks account for half of all new infections in the USA, federal statistics show."
"Jose Esparza, director of AIDS vaccine research for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), called the finding 'probably the most important accomplishment in vaccine research in 15 years. This is the first time anyone has shown protection (against HIV) in humans, not monkeys.' "
"Although the vaccine failed to provide protection overall, it was 78.3% effective in blacks and 68% effective in Asians." 2-03
- Reviews of African American Movies (BlackFlix.com)
Provides news and reviews of movies, with a focus on movies staring or developed by Arican Americans. 9-00
Papers
- -African-American History (Library of Congress)
Uses treasures, key historical documents in the Library of Congress, to weave a story on the history of African-Americans in the United States. 2-01
- African American Authors (About.com - Howell)
Provides biographies and other information related to key African American literature. 2-01
- African American Biographies (WETA - ExploreDC.org)
Presents profiles of famous African Amerians, including Marian Anderson, Benjamin Banneker, Marion Barry, Mary McLeod Bethune, Edward Brooke, Anna Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Charles Drew, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Duke Ellington, Charles Houston, Langston Hughes, Sharon Pratt Kelly, John Mercer Langston, Alain Locke, Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hugh Price, A. Philip Randolph, Addison Scurlock, Mary Church Terrell, Walter Washington, Anthony Williams, and Carter Woodson. 5-01
- African Americans in World War II (History Place)
Provides pictures of African Americans who served with distinction during World War II.
- African Culture (LifeinAfrica.com)
"The Life in Africa Foundation was founded in Uganda in 1999, in order to harness the power of the Internet to foster an increased international understanding of Africa and African people, and to make a lasting impact - through supporting microfinance in Africa - on the lives of ordinary African people who face extraordinary life challenges every single day." 2-01
- African-American Pamphlets (1818 - 1907)
- Allen, Richard (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American. 2-01
- Apartheid (Infoplease.com)
Provides a history of apartheid in Africa, especially South Africa. Visitors sometimes misspell as apartide, aparthide, or aparthied. 5-03
- Biko, Stephen (Sunday Times - Mangcu)
Biko has been called "an activist for all times."
"A Biko biography is particularly timely given the frequency with which people, from often disparate political perspectives, invoke his name to buttress their respective political arguments. That, in a sense, is an indication of the universality of his ideas. But who was this man who has become such a source of inspiration, affection and contestation in our political life, and why is it important that we know more about his leadership?"
"In his book The Sociological Imagination, the eminent sociologist C Wright Mills suggested that the importance of biographies lies in telling us stories about the interaction between individuals and their societies. Similarly, a biography of Biko would have to tell us something about the manner in which he interacted with his society at a particular point in time. It would also have to tell us more about the personal resources that enabled him to respond in that manner." 5-03
- Black Facts Online
Provides brief historical news by searchable date.
- Black History (ACS)
Provides dozens of links.
- Black History (US Post Office)
- Black History - 19th Century African Americans (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American. 2-01
- Black History - Biographies (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Provides hundreds of biographies of outstanding African Americans. Loads slowly. 2-01
- Black History - Black Patriots of the Revolution (SeacoastNH)
Provides a short summary of sections of "Colored Patriots of the Revolution" by Nell. Recounts events by a biography of the mid-1800's.
- Black History - Buffalo Soldiers (International Museum of the Horse)
Provides information on the first peace time African American soldiers.
- Black History - Famous African Americans (TeacherVision.com)
Provides short biographies of dozens of well known African Americans. 1-01
- Black History - First Blacks of Portsmouth 1 (SeacoastNH)
"Valerie Cunningham traces African American history from 1645 through the first harsh century of slavery."
- Black History - Harriet Tubman (About.com - McElrath)
Provides a biography of the influential African American woman. 2-01
- Black History - Underground Railroad (About.com - McElrath)
Describes the network used to free slaves in the 1800's in the United States. 2-01
- Black History Month (Boateng)
Provides an essay on the history and significance Black History Month.
- Black History Month (TeacherVision.com)
Provides multidisciplinary resources, by subject. 2-03
- Black History Month - Woodson, Carter (About.com - Schwalbe)
Provides a biography of the man who initiated Black History Month. He was also the first African American of slave parents to receive a Ph.D., which he earned from Harvard. 6-02
- Black History Museum (Afro-America)
Covers seven historical events.
- Black History Postage Stamps
- Black History Search Engine (Seditionists.org)
Provides a search engine for information on people and places related to Black history. 1-02
- Black History by Month (Seditionists.org)
Provides This Week in History, with key events in Black history during the current month. 1-02
- Bowser, Mary Elizabeth (Bright)
Provides a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Brown, Charlotte Hawkins (ABC's of Parenting)
Provides a biography under "Dr. Brown" in the middle of the left table.
- Coates, Dorothy Love (PBS)
Provides a short background of the African American singer. 12-00
- Crummell, Alexander (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Dark Skin - Photographing Persons of Color (New York Insitute of Photography - Zucker)
Provides tips on photographing persons of color. 'If I am lighting a black person, I'm not going to change the light, I'm not going to bring it in any closer. I'm not going to open up an extra f-stop.'
'The only thing I'm going to do is use the light coming from the side and around the subject. What we need to do when we're photographing a black person is to bring an extra light in from a 90-degree angle.' 6-02
- Douglass, Frederick (America's Story)
Provides a short biography. 12-00
- Douglass, Frederick (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- DuBois - W.E.B.: Works
Provides five articles by DuBois and a long book entitled The Souls of Black Folk.
- DuBois, W.E.B. (US Post Office)
Provides a short biography and U.S. postage stamp.
- Fighting Jim Crow Laws (Humanities - Lasner)
Provides short stories about African Americans who opposed Jim Crow laws, including Ned Cobb, W.E.B. DuBois, and more. 10-02
- First Blacks of Portsmouth 2 (SeacoastNH)
"Limited freedom came slowly. Valerie Cunningham discusses emancipation, the 'Negro Court,' and the lives of Portsmouth's expanding black population."
- Flipper, Henry O. (CMH)
Provides a short biography of the first African American graduate of West Point. 5-02
- Garnet, Henry Highland (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Harlem - 1900 - 1940 (University of Michigan - CHICO)
- History of an African American Community
- Houston, Charles Hamilton (Humanities - Linder)
Provides a detailed biography of the man considered by many as the architect of the modern civil rights movement in the USA. His strategy was to attack "Jim Crow" laws in education, challenging the "separate but equal" provisions. 10-02
- Improving African American Student Achievement (NWREL - Kuykendall)
Provides ways that teachers can improve their feedback to African American students and, as a result, contribute to their academic achievement. "Good's summary (1981) of teachers' behavior toward those students perceived as low achievers includes:
- providing students with general, often insincere praise
- providing them will less feedback,
- demanding less effort of them,
- interrupting them more often,
- seating them farther away from the teacher,
- paying less attention to them,
- calling on them less often,
- waiting less time for them to respond to questions,
- criticizing them more often, and
- smiling at them less.
Research indicates that reversing these negative behaviors improves student achievement. 3-02
- Jackson, Mahalia (Southern Music Network)
Provides a short background of the African American gospel singer. 12-00
- King - Martin Luther, Jr (King Estate)
- Langston, John Mercer (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Million Woman March
Provides information about the October march and events following it..
- Parks, Rosa (National Geographic)
Provides a short description of why Rosa Parks is honored for her role in bringing civil rights to African Americans in the United States. 2-02
- Pleasant, Mary Ellen (Pacific Bell)
Provides information and pictures regarding Pleasant, a leader of civil rights causes in California during the Civil War era. One of very few African American women who have become well known from that era. 12-99
- Race and Racism in American Law (Randall)
"Race and Racism in American Law considers the intersectionality between race and American Law, racial distinctions in the law, and the role of the law in promoting/alleviating racism. It includes statutes, cases, excerpts of law review articles, annotated bibliographies and other documents."
- Rice, Condoleeza - Biography (National Review - Nordlinger)
Provides a biography of Rice, Bush's National Security Advisor. 2-01
- Robeson, Paul (Rutgers University)
Provides the biography of a man known as a great athlete, actor, singer, and fighter for freedom. 6-02
- Robeson, Paul (Seditionists.org)
Provides a brief biography and related resources. 1-02
- Robinson, Bill Bojangles (Haskins and Mitgang)
Provides a perspective on the life of Bill Bojangles Robinson, one of the most famous entertainers in the world.
- Shadd, Mary Ann (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Sisulu, Walter (IAfrica.com)
"Walter Sisulu, who died Monday aged 90, was an unassuming but giant pillar of South Africa's bitter anti-apartheid war and respected as much as his long-time friend Nelson Mandela."
"From the time he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940 until apartheid fell in 1994, Sisulu played a key leadership role in the struggle against the white supremacist regime that held the country in its grip for decades." 5-03
- Slave Ships (About.com - Jones)
Provides facts about slave ships and slave trade in the early history of the United States. 2-01
- Slavery - Describes Living Conditions Under Slavery (Henderson) (Pacific Bell)
A young African American slave writes about how he lives in 1856.
- Slavery - Describes Living Conditions Under Slavery (Henderson) (Pacific Bell)
A young African American slave writes about how he lives in 1856.
- Slavery - Describes a Slave Auction (Martin) (Pacific Bell)
An old African American man recounts how a slave auction was run.
- Slavery - Describes a Slave Auction (Martin) (Pacific Bell)
An old African American man recounts how a slave auction was run.
- Teaching African American Children (EdWeek.org - Del Vecchio)
Provides a review of the book Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit. 3-02
- Terrell, Mary Church (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Test Bias - Examples (NWREL - Kuykendall)
Provides examples of test bias for persons of diverse minority groups. 3-02
- Timeline of African-American History (1852 - 1880)
- Timeline of African-American History (1881 - 1900)
- Timeline of African-American History (1901 - 1925)
- Truth - Sojurner (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Tubman, Harriet (America's Story)
Provides a short biography. 12-00
- Tubman, Harriet (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Turner, Henry McNeal (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Turner, Nat (Bright)
Provides a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- Voice Profiling (ABC News)
Provides a case of "voice profiling," where an agency is accused of prejudice against persons based on how they sound on the phone. Points out that most persons can identify the ethnicity of a person based on a single word heard over the phone. 12-01
- Williams, Bert (Bert Williams Home Page)
Provides a biography of the first African American performer to become a Broadway celebrity. 10-01
- Woods, Tiger - Timeline (Family Education Network)
Provides a timeline of the achievements of the golf pro, Tiger Woods. 7-00
Projects
- Slavery - Underground Railroad (Headbone Interactive)
The Head Bone Zone provides an interactive Internet lesson to lead in an escape from slavery during the mid 1800's.
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