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

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

• Library of Congress American Memory Project
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History

• African American History
  http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html

Databases

• Student Research Center Gold
• eLibrary
• Grolier Online

• Proquest

Sample search terms:

• African American history
• American civil war
• African American business
• discrimination
• African American education
• African American folklore
• African American genealogy
• African American music
• prejudice
• African American religion
• segregation

Library Catalog Search

• African American women
• African American biographies
• African Americans
• African Americans, Civil Rights

Dewey Decimal Numbers

305.896	African Americans
323.1	Civil Rights
920	Biography
973	United States History