Art

African American Art on the Internet
A comprehensive list of weblinks about African American Art compiled by the Schwartz Memorial Library at Long Island University
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm

History & Culture

African American World: A PBS Guide to African American History & Culture
PBS’ A-Z guide to African American history and culture (includes a timeline)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/

Digital Schomburg: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
A great selection of 19th century African American images from The Schomburg for Research in Black Culture’s digital collection
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

The History of Jim Crow
Covers the entire history of segregation in the U.S. (includes teacher resources)
http://jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

Time Line of African American History, 1852-1925
from the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timeline.html

Virginia Runaways — University of Virginia
A digitized collection of runaway slave advertisements from 18th century Virginia newspapers  (Univ. of VA Center for Digital History)
http://people.uvawise.edu/runaways/

Libraries, Archives & Research Collections

While all libraries listed collect African American & African Diaspora subjects, special subject emphasis is noted.

African-American Research Library & Cultural Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL
special subject emphasis:  The History & Culture of Afro-Caribbean People
http://www.broward.org/library/aarlcc.htm

Archives of African American Music and Culture, Bloomington, IN
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/

Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture & History, Atlanta, GA
special subject emphasis:  African American History in the American South
http://www.af.public.lib.ga.us/aarl/

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Denver, CO
special subject emphasis:  African Americans in the West
http://aarl.denverlibrary.org/

Center for Black Music Research Library Resources, Chicago, IL
http://www.cbmr.org/

Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection — Temple University
http://library.temple.edu/collections/blockson/index.jsp

George Washington Univ., Gelman Library — African Americana Research Center, Washington, DC
http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/spec/arc/

Givens Collection of African American Literature — University of Minnesota
http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/givens/

Harold Washington Archives & Collections, Chicago, IL
http://www.chipublib.org/001hwlc/001hwlc.html

Harris Collection of African-American Literature — Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/collections/harris/Harris.AALit.html

The History Makers
A video oral history archive documenting the contributions of African Americans in history.  According to its website, it is “the single largest archival project of its kind and is a combination archive, library, museum, stock footage collection, and online educator.”
http://www.thehistorymakers.org/   

James Weldon Johnson Collection — Beinecke Library at Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/ycaljwj.htm

John Henrik Clarke Africana Library — Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/

Library of Congress — American Memory Historical Collections, Washington, DC
African American collections include: The Frederick Douglass papers, Zora Neale Hurston Plays & the Slave Narratives& #8212; Federal Writers’ Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library — Black Studies Division, Washington, DC
http://www.dclibrary.org/mlk/blackstudies/

Moorland Spingarn Research Center — Howard University
http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/default.htm

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
special subject emphasis:  African American Migration    http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Chicago, IL
http://www.chipublib.org/002branches/woodson/wnharsh.html

RESEARCH CENTERS

Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA
http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad/

Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Charleston, SC
http://www.cofc.edu/avery/

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Yale Univ.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/

Institute for Research in African-American Studies — Columbia Univ., New York, NY
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & History — Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
http://www.ibiblio.org/shscbch/

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afrom-American Research — Harvard University
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/index.html

Museums & Cultural Institutions

African American Museum, Cleveland, OH
http://www.aamcleveland.org/

The African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
http://www.aampmuseum.org/home/

Association of African American Museums, Wilberforce, OH
http://www.blackmuseums.org/index.htm

Banneker Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD
http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/bdm.html

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL
http://www.bcri.org/index.html

California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.caam.ca.gov/

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
http://maah-detroit.org/

The Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Baltimore, MD
http://www.ngbiwm.com/

Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
http://www.hamptonu.edu/museum/

The King Center, Atlanta, GA
http://thekingcenter.com/tkc/index.asp

The Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY
http://www.alicenter.org/

Museum of Afro-American History, Boston, MA
http://www.afroammuseum.org/

National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/afroam/

National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
http://www.freedomcenter.org/

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
http://www.nlbm.com/

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD
http://www.africanamericanculture.org/home.html

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/

Organizations & Associations

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.
http://www.aahgs.org/

Association for the Study of African American Life and History [ASALH]
http://www.asalh.org/

Association of African American Museums
http://www.blackmuseums.org/

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
http://www.cbcfinc.org/

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
http://www.naacp.org/home/index.htm

National Council of Negro Women
http://www.ncnw.org/

Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]
http://sclcnational.org/content/sclc/splash.htm

Association of African American Museums
http://www.blackmuseums.org/

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
http://www.africanaculture.org/

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
http://www.bcri.org/index.html

Hampton University Museum
http://www.hamptonu.edu/museum/index.htm

John Gilmore Riley Center and Museum for African American History
http://www.rileymuseum.org/

Legacy Museum of African American History
http://www.legacymuseum.org/

National Urban League
http://www.nul.org/

Organization of American Historians
http://www.oah.org/

Penn Center, Inc.
http://www.penncenter.com/

Weeksville Heritage Center
http://www.weeksvillesociety.org/

Smithsonian Institution Resources

Anacostia Community Museum
http://anacostia.si.edu/

Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian
http://www.folklife.si.edu/index.html

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/History_and_Culture/AfricanAmerican_History.htm

National Museum of African Art
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html