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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 Biography

FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY

The Negro National Anthem

"Lift Every Voice and Sing"

by

 James Weldon Johnson

Webpage on Negro National Anthem

Black History Web Sites

African American Perspectives

Breaking racial barriers: African-Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection

Experience in Ohio

Daisy Bates

Encyclopędia Britannica's Guide to Black History

African American History Month

blackquest.com/link.htm

pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/

heathcenter.tripod.com/blackhistory/id10.html

aawc.com/paa.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.black-collegian.com/

www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/multimedia/AfricanAm.html

www.noho.com/sojourner/

Blacks and the Military

www.americanrevolution.org/blk.html

www.ufphq.com/aams.htm

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 Pilot

Colin 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/

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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 Payton

Image

Alice Coachman, Olympic Gold Medalist

African American Art

www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/  

www.abufineart.com/categories.html

www.apexmuseum.org/home.html

lii.org/search?goto=007327

 www.maah-detroit.org/facts.htm

www.slam.org/african.html

www.nmafa.si.edu/

www.tribalarts.com/feature/lawal/index.html

cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html  

Gelede Mask, early 20th century
Gelede 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

http://www.raycharles.com/

memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html

www.willsmith.net/

www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/washington_d.htm

lii.org/search?goto=008474

lii.org/search?goto=009635

lii.org/search?goto=009443

www.jazzconnectionmag.com/Herbie%20Hancock%20Quartet%20Concert%20Review.htm

lii.org/search?goto=008128

lii.org/search?goto=011577

lii.org/search?goto=012357

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

lii.org/search?goto=010884

www.soulofamerica.com/colleges/colleges.html

Black History Stamps

lii.org/search?goto=007952

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  

The Souls of Black Folk

www.mayaangelou.com/

www.bebemoorecampbell.com/

aalbc.com/authors/terry.htm

etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html

members.aol.com/klove01/martinsp.htm

www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/giovanni_nikki.html

aalbc.com/authors/gloria.htm

seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/man/MLKsound.html

www.bartleby.com/114/

cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/afrolit.html

lii.org/search?goto=012445

www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm

www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/wright/wright0.html

www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_wright.html

lii.org/search?query="African+American"+
(Authors+or+Novelists+or+Poets+or+Dramatists)
;no_stem=1;searchtype=subject

www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/critical.html

lii.org/search?goto=012445

aalbc.com/

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/

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