African American Links

Academic Info website of links to African American History and Studies.

Amistad Research Center at Tulane University has more than 10,000,000 documents and is acknowledged as the nation's largest independent African-American archives. The Amistad web site links to gophers that feature extensive collections on Africa, other minorities, and the gay rights movement.

Black Facts Online is an online searchable database of Black history facts you can search.

Black History Quest is a website with links to African-American history, culture, and Black studies.

Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research at University of Southern California covers a wide range of topics, including language acquisition; bilingualism and biliteracy; language proficiency testing; integrating language and content instruction; non-mainstream dialects of English; teaching, learning and schooling in social context; minority teacher education, recruitment and retention; literacy in the workplace; minority language policy and planning; and literacy acquisition through global learning networks. Excellent African American resources including quicktime video clips.

Center for Urban Education I Have a Dream Project - project with African American children at UC Berkeley coordinated by Jabari Mahiri.

A Community Remembers is an exhibit of African American Life in Princeton.

Embracing Ebonics and Teaching Standard English is an interview with Oakland teacher Carrie Secret.

Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences is a website profiling African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.

Indiana University: The Black Film Center/Archive Selected List of Film-Related Internet Resources.

Internet School Library Media Center African American History and Literature page. You'll find information on African Americans including history, biography, lesson plans and bibliographies.

Los Angeles Murals is a website on African American murals in Los Angeles and California.

North Star: Minnesota's Black Pioneers includes lesson guides and interactive elements regarding African-American contributions to Minnesota.

Smithsonian Institution website of African American History and Culture.

Successful Teachers is a small group of people who are dedicated to contributing to the information available to teachers, parents, and others who work with students whom our urban schools are failing to educate to any degree of excellence.

The Trotter Institute addresses the needs and concerns of the Black community through research, technical assistance, and public service.

University of California at Los Angeles excellent annotated listing of African American websites by categories.

University of New Orleans extensive listing of African American resources annotated and by category.

links checked 11.27.2004