BLACK HISTORY
THE
PAST AND PRESENT
Black History Month is a time to reflect on the past history of those who help made significant changes to the world we live in. It's a time to learn how our people struggle for freedom and peace. The following Links will help you search the past.
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson BiographyThe Negro National Anthem
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
by
James Weldon Johnson
Webpage on Negro National Anthem
Black History Web Sites
Breaking racial barriers: African-Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection
Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History
African American History Month
heathcenter.tripod.com/blackhistory/id10.html
historychannel.com/exhibits/blackhist/
infoplease.com/spot/afroambios.html
sos.state.ga.us/archives/rs/ghfaq.htm#aa
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j2.html
docsouth.unc.edu/church/introduction.html
www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/black.html
www.census.gov/publicinfo/www/multimedia/AfricanAm.html
www.toptags.com/aama/voices/speeches/negrocon.htm
www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/multimedia/AfricanAm.html
Blacks and the Military
www.americanrevolution.org/blk.html
www.anuproducts.com/Black_History/black_viet_nam_war_veterns.htm
www.redstone.army.mil/history/integrate/CHRON3.html
www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq57-3.htm
www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1?file=BH_Index
Navy PilotColin Powell
www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/powell_c.htm
www.britannica.com/blackhistory/micro/40/36.html
www.army.mil/cmh-pg/topics/afam/afam-usa.htm
www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/pa/nasmnews/history/bhistory/
tuskegee01.gif (131101 bytes) bufsldr11.gif (13308 bytes)Tuskegee Airmen
Buffalo Soldiers
Black Wings
Blacks in Sports
www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmpeople7.html
sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/73/
www.soulofamerica.com/gallery/athletes.html
cbs.sportsline.com/u/football/nfl/legends/wpayton.htm
baseball-almanac.com/firsts/first8.shtml
www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/coachman/coachman_bio.html
www.search.eb.com/women/articles/Coachman_Alice.html
memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
Walter PaytonImage
Alice Coachman, Olympic Gold MedalistAfrican American Art
www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/www.abufineart.com/categories.html
www.maah-detroit.org/facts.htm
www.tribalarts.com/feature/lawal/index.html
cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html
Gelede Mask, early 20th centuryGelede Mask, early 20th century Archer figure Equestrian figure Commemorative figure Plaque Staff of Office Reliquary figure 1880-1910
Night Life at the Studio / Artist: Ernest Watson Gospel Travelers / Artist: Ernest Watson
"Female Buffalo Solider" / John Will Davis "Flippers" Prayer" / My Biography
Old Time Religion / Artist: Ernest Watson
The Little Diviner
The Banjo Lesson / Artist: Henry Tanner
Offering / Artist: Monica Stewart
Black Inventors and Scientists
www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmscientists1.html
www.blackinventionsmuseum.com/features3.html
www.blackinventor.com/pages/lewislatimer.html
www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/jones.html
www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/cobb.html
www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/30.html
Black Entertainers and the Performing Arts
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html
www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/washington_d.htm
www.jazzconnectionmag.com/Herbie%20Hancock%20Quartet%20Concert%20Review.htm
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/tenors/threemotenors.html
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/playon.html
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/nataliecole/nataliecole.html
gmhf.georgia.gov/01/article/0,2201,1349563_0_2975601,00.html
www.si.edu/sp/onair/blakrad.htm
Historically Black College
and Universities
www.soulofamerica.com/colleges/colleges.html
Black History Stamps
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub354.pdf
First Black Mayors
Dr. Willie Adams - Albany, Ga.
Maynard Jackson - Atlanta, Ga.
Harold Washington - Chicago, IL.
Sylvia Willis - Trenton, N.C.
James Perkins - Selma, Alabama
Emanuel Cleaver - Kansas City, Mo.
Kurt Schmoke - Baltimore
Clarence Lightner - Raleigh, N.C
Richard Arrington - Birmingham, Ala.
Tom Bradley - Los Angeles, Ca.
8 Black Mayors Autographs on 1978 1st day of issue Harriet Tubman Coleman
First Black Police Chiefs
Frank Lang Sr., first African-American Police Chief in Moultrie, Georgia.
John Gregory III, an assistant police chief in High Point, N.C., the first black police chief in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Robert Johnson the first Black Lansing, Michigan police chief.
James Toler first black police chief of Indianapolis.
Ronald Lowe Sr., first black police chief in Chatham County, Georgia. (deceased)
Mike Fuller Britain's first black chief constable.
Howard L. McCoy Jr., first black police chief in Mount Vernon's. (deceased)
Herman Edge the First African American deputy police chief in Syracuse.
Benny Dubose first black police chief, Meridian, Miss.
Earl Sanders assistant police chief in San Francisco is the first African-American to hold the top job in the department's 153-year history.
Robert White first black police chief in Louisville, Kentucky.
Jack Lumpkin first black police chief, Athens-Clarke, Georgia.
Delsa Bush an assistant police chief who became the city's first black policewoman 20 years ago would become the city's first black police chief, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Willie Johnson first black police chief in Greenville, South Carolina.
Black Literature
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: Freedom's Journal
etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html
members.aol.com/klove01/martinsp.htm
www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/giovanni_nikki.html
seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/man/MLKsound.html
cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/afrolit.html
www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm
www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/wright/wright0.html
www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_wright.html
www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/critical.html
www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/civil.html
digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/biographies.html
www.aalbc.com/authors/virtualpoetryreading.htm
www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html
www.aalbc.com/authors/poetsinfo.html
www.edchange.org/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.html
www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmpeople4.html
Black History Books at Darton
for other books search: https://gil.darton.edu/
gil.darton.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=50&Search_Arg=black+literature&Search_Code=FKEY
gil.darton.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=50&Search_Arg=negro+almanac&Search_Code=FKEY
gil.darton.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=50&Search_Arg=black+history&Search_Code=FKEY
gil.darton.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=50&Search_Arg=black+american&Search_Code=FKEY
gil.darton.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=50&Search_Arg=black+religion&Search_Code=FKEY
gil.darton.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=50&Search_Arg=black+church&Search_Code=FKEY
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