Black History Month Links for 2011

I gathered a list of links for Black History Month for the NCTE Inbox Blog in 2010. Lots of new resources have come online in the last year, so I’ve updated the collection with the most recent and best K12 and College resources for for African American Read-Ins and Black History Month celebrations.

As I wrote last year, click away, read, and marvel at these rich resources. There’s enough that you can visit a new site every day this month!

General Background Information

1. African American History Month, from The Library of Congress
2. Black History, from The History Channel
3. Black History, from the National Archive
4. Black History Month, from Biography.com
5. Black History Month, from EDSITEment
6. Black History Month, from Thinkfinity
7. Culture and Change: Black History in America, from Scholastic
8. The State of Black Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research, from the Schomburg Center at the New York Public Library

Literature

1. A Brief Chronology of African American Literature, from San Antonio College Lit Web
2. African American Poets, from Famous Poets and Poems
3. African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, from The Schomburg Center at the New York Public Library
4. African-American Women, from Duke University Library
5. Black History, from Academy of American Poets
6. Twenty-Eight Days Later, A Black History Month Celebration of Children’s Literature, from The Brown Bookshelf
7. Black History Month, from Reading Rockets

Historical and Nonfiction Texts

1. African-American Odyssey, from The Library of Congress
2. African-American Quotations, from InfoPlease
3. African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920, from the Library of Congress
4. African American Cultural Heritage Tour, from the Smithsonian Institute
5. Africana & Black History, from the New York Public Library
6. American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology, from American Studies Hypertexts at the University of Virginia
7. The Church in the Southern Black Community, from Documenting the American South
8. Electronic Text Center: African American, from the University of Virginia (Includes texts about African Americans as well as by African Americans)
9. In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, from the Schomburg Center at the New York Public Library
10. In Those Days: African-American Life Near the Savannah River, from the National Park Service
11. North American Slave Narratives, from Documenting the American South
12. Notable Speeches and Letters by African Americans, from InfoPlease

Personal Histories

1. Experience War: Stories from the Veterans History Project, from the Library of Congress
   • Buffalo Soldiers: The 92nd in Italy
   • African Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles
2. Oral Histories, from the National Visionary Leadership Project
3. StoryCorps Griot, from National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photographs and Other Visual Images

1. The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection, from The Library of Congress
2. The Face of Slavery & Other African American Photographs, from The American Museum of Photography
3. Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, from the Schomburg Center at the New York Public Library
4. Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs, from the University of Virginia Library
5. Pictures of African Americans During World War II, from the National Archive
6. Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers, from The Library of Congress
7. Portrait of Black Chicago, from the National Archive
8. Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection, from VCU Libraries

[Photo: Virginia Civil Rights Memorial by john.murden, on Flickr]