History

Smithsonian Institution includes highlights from the Smithsonian archive, reading lists, artist and inventor profiles. Also presents lesson plans on African-American art, history and culture.

The Africans in America Web site is a companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. The Web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States -- from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

The Center for Contemporary Black History (CCBH) promotes the critical study of black history, culture, and politics within urban America since 1900, with an emphasis on understanding the central role of black intellectuals and public leaders in the making of modern society.

The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.

The Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) showcases the history, art and the cultural richness that resulted from the dispersal of Africans throughout the world and realizes its mission through enriching and innovative exhibitions, education and public programs.

The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) records, preserves, and distributes through various media, the wisdom of extraordinary African Americans who have shaped American history.

BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location, including an online encyclopedia , complete transcripts of nearly 300 speeches, and full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines.

Collection consists of videocassettes and video discs of about 300 full-length oral history interviews with noted African American leaders conducted by Camille O. Cosby, Renee Poussaint, and others for the National Visionary Leadership Project from 1997 to 2009, and includes photographs of the interviewees taken at the time of the interviews.