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Slave Gallery
Black American history must be considered against the backdrop of slavery, the institution that brought so many Africans to the United States against their wills.
CNN Interactive's chat with Charles Evers
CNN Interactive hosted a chat Monday with Charles Evers who, like his late brother Medgar, became a civil rights pioneer.
Charles Evers became the NAACP's State Voter Registration Chairman in 1954, and was driven from the state two years later by angry whites. After Medgar's assassination in 1963, Charles took over his brother's leadership role and began drives to register blacks.
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Black filmmaker finds rich material in ordinary lives
Charles Burnett has been making films for nearly three decades, focusing on the everyday lives of African-Americans.
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Celebrating Black History
Events in the U.S
The beginning of February marks the start of the annual Black History Month celebration in the United States. However, across the nation, cities and groups recognize and honor the achievements of African Americans year round.
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Celebrating Black History month on the Web
The United States marked Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday January 20, and national Black History Month began February 1. Bearing those occasions in mind, the Site Seer decided to highlight several sites that promote understanding of African-American culture and the civil rights movement and a few that focus on the most prominent U.S. civil rights leaders.
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A virtual tour through the heart of the civil rights movement
Stories on historic sites in Montgomery, Tuskegee, Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis.
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A legacy of black talent
CNN Interactive profiles some of the many African Americans who have made a lasting contribution in the arts and sciences.
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Libraries and museums:
- The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
- Program in African American Culture (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (The New York Public Library)
- Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
- The Anacostia Museum
- WWW Virtual Library: African Studies
- African American History (Mississippi State University)
- Onrican American Historical Documents (Mississippi State University)
Civil Rights:
- National Civil Rights Museum
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement (Western Michigan University)
- The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and the MLK Papers Project at Stanford
Other:
- African-Americans in the Sciences (Louisiana State University Libraries)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month (Louisiana State University)
- African-American Genealogy Sites
- Education First: Black History Activities
- AFRO-Americ@: The Afro-American Newspapers Home Page
- AFRO-Americ@: The Black History Museum
- The Book - a black history web site
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