African-American History Sources

African-American History Resources on the Web

Note: The web sites listed below are not linked back to this page, so you will either have to use a "back" or "previous" or some similar command on your server to return here. If that doesn't work, go back to the beginning and type in the address for this page once more.

Please note also that web sites and addresses are always subject to change, and that those who maintain the pages are responsible for their contents. If you find any "missing links," let me know.

For information about African American history, you might want to surf the following sites:

United States Black On Line was established in 1995 as "the first African-American owned and operated national Internet Service Provider." They are located in McLean, Virginia. Go to USBOL Databank, then click on "History" for links to various other sites.
For biographical information on some Important 19th Century African Americans try this site.
A number of links can be found in the African-American section of the archive index at Mississippi State University.
Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is part of the New York Public Library System.
Here is a link to Booker T. Washington's 1903 Atlanta Compromise Speech

Let me know of any other interesting links you find to African-American history sites and they will be added to this page as soon as the addresses are checked out.
Updated October 1, 1999