Here are our recommended Web sites and other resources for your school assignment on African American history.

Target Audience: Middle and High School students

Web Sites

• African American Literature Book Club
  http://www.aalbc.com
• Black History Hotlist
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
• The African-American Odyssey
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
• American Memory Project:Library of Congress
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml

Databases

• EbscoHost
• MasterFILE Premier
• Student Research Center
• eLibrary
• Gale Group
• Student Edition
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• CQ Researcher
• Grolier Online

Sample search terms:

• American civil war
• business
• discrimination
• education
• folklore
• genealogy
• music
• prejudice
• religion
• segregation
• social life

Library Catalog Search

• African American women
• African Americans
• African Americans, Civil Rights
• Civil rights movements, United States, History
• Minorities

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