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The Church in the Southern Black Community: Documenting the American South ...

The AFRO-AMERICAN Almanac is an on-line presentation of the African in America. We present a historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution.

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AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, state specific African Ancestry mail lists, AfriGeneas message boards and AfriGeneas daily and weekly genealogy chats.

The African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1880 - 1920, contains 351 rare pamphlets offering insight into attitudes and ideas of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War.

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This Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. The special presentation is not only a highlight of what is on view in this major black history exhibition, but also a glimpse into the Library's vast holdings of African American materials. Both include a wide array of important and ...

African-American Women On-line Archival Collections Special Collections Library, Duke University Elizabeth Johnson Harris: Life Story Elizabeth Johnson Harris was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1867 to parents who had been slaves. Her 85 page handwritten memoir provides glimpses of her early childhood, of race relations, of her own ambivalence about her place as an African-American in society, and ...

Small but growing collection of transcriptions of the reports and records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau.

Based on the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojurner Truth and others this site is an Internet based curriculum enhancement tool for Black History education programs. The Internet African American History Challenge consists of test questions based on the lives of important 19th century African Americans. The questions are based on biographical profiles (available at the ...

The Museum of Afro American History, Boston, is a not-for-profit cultural institution dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans.

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CHARLES H. WRIGHT MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY BLOCKBUSTER EXHIBITION! In the Spirit of Martin The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Employment Opportunities MISSION STATEMENT Founded in 1965, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History exists to serve Metropolitan Detroit and national communities by providing exceptional exhibitions and programs based on outstanding ...

Blackhistory.com is a community site dedicated to past influential and living black leaders and the history surrounding them.

A genealogy research site that includes a geneology resources index, online library, ancestral charts, surname message boards, genealogy articles, bible records, census records, marriage records, program and events calendar, membership information, mailing lists ...

THE AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & GENEALOGY WEBPAGE ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Celebrating the Estelusti ~ The Freedmen Oklahoma's Black Indians _________________________________________________________________________ Abraham * Cow Tom * Dosar Barkus * Caesar Bruner * Harry Island * John Horse* Silas Jefferson * Sugar ...

Soldiers Without Swords: The Black Press. History of the Black Press in America ...

Sixteen photographs of Buffalo Soldiers, 14 of their legendary Native American foes, two mini-videos and 24 story/page links are displayed. Buffalo Soldier battles, skirmishes and background events are given.

This project documents a selection of important events in African American history. Currently it begins with the 1857 Dred Scott case and continues through Plessy v. Ferguson, the civil rights movement from 1955-1965, and school integration. It may be expanded in the future to contain information on other topics as well.

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Buffalo Soldiers - African American soldiers who helped to tame the west and fought in America's wars from the revolutionary war to WWII. Black military history, African-American History.

The African American Great Migration v The North by South webpage explores the multiple dimensions of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to Northern cities. Epic in scale, monumental in its long-term social and cultural impact, the Great Migration stands as the largest internal movement of people in the history of the United States. Between the years 1900 and 1960, ...

Got kids Get help on FamilyEducation.com. Find parenting advice from pediatricians, a family therapist, teachers, and special education experts. Get child development and grade-by grade information, and free parenting newsletters on topics ranging from learning disabilities to family activities.

Time Line of African American History, 1852-1880 The following works were valuable sources in the compilation of this Time Line: Lerone Bennett's Before the Mayflower (Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1982), W. Augustus Low and Virgil A. Clift's Encyclopedia of Black America (New York: Da Capo Press, 1984), and Harry A. Ploski and Warren Marr's The Negro Almanac (New York: Bellwether Co., 1976).

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Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online ...

Home Page for the North Carolina United States Colored Troops Project ...

African American History of Western New York ...

The African-American Genealogy Ring ...

BACKGROUND Introduction The Beginning of Slavery Slave Trade Middle Passage Slave Codes and Resistance Slavery and Race The Anti-Slavery Movement The Underground Railroad EVENTS A Nation in Crisis: Slavery Timeline Slave Revolts and Rebellions Uncle Tom's Cabin The Amistad Insurrection Harper's Ferry Dred Scott Case Election of 1860 The Civil War Reconstruction PERSONALITIES John Q. Adams John ...

Welcome to the South Carolina African-American History project online. The African-American History project is brought to you through the partnership of BELLSOUTH, SCETV and WIS-TV. The project, now in its thirteenth year, provides educators a method of identifying role models for all youth. ...

Fifty years ago, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette posed as a black man to experience firsthand what life was like for 10 million people living under the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. As he wrote in his 21-part series, I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days : I quit being white, and free, and an American citizen when I climbed aboard that Jim Crow coach. . . . From then on, ...

UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS - CIVIL WAR *** Brief Notes and Links *** Researched and compiled by Bennie J. McRae, Jr. Updated: May 26, 2001 NOTE: See CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SYSTEM update below. VISIT THE HOMEPAGE OF THE UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN THE CIVIL WAR UNITS ORGANIZED: 1 - LIGHT ARTILLERY REGIMENT 7 - CAVALRY REGIMENTS 13 - HEAVY ARTILLERY REGIMENTS 144 - INFANTRY REGIMENTS ...

Return to Coombs home page The Immigrant Heritage of America By Norman Coombs Originally published by Twayne Press in 1972 as part of The Immigrant Heritage of America Contents Preface PART ONE From Freedom to Slavery 1. African Origins The Human Cradle West African Empires The Culture of West Africa 2. The Human Market The Slave Trade Caribbean Interlude 3. Slavery As Capitalism The Shape of ...

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The Ninth Memorial Cavalry Regiment: Buffalo Soldiers Reliving the Past for the Future ...

Community-based non-profit corporation to preserve the history of Hartford's Black community ...

OurBlackHeritage.com shares historical Black American documents for personal and educational purposes.

Records of the 105th. U.S. Colored Troops Organized at Charleston, South Carolina Spring and Summer of 1865 Transcribed by A. Donald Kelmers Comments and HTML coding by William Hamilton Contents Background including prior service of Officers. Preparations for Organizing a Charleston U.S.C.T. Regiment, March 16, 1865 Red Tape in the Army A missing report is demanded, April 7, 1865 Southern ...

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Home African-American soldiers numbering approximately one hundred and eighty thousand - nine percent of the North's fighting force - fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. Of the men in the United States Colored Infantry, 29 were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while thousands died in combat and thousands more died from disease. One of the fiercest battles of the Civil War was ...

More than 5, 000 former slaves and freedmen from South Carolina served in five infantry regiments and one artillery battery.

Member Login | Free Membership | MyAccount Today @ Ancestry | Thinking of Joining | Top Things to Do | Affiliate Program Read firsthand about the struggles and triumphs of life as an American slave. This collection of interviews is the most complete picture available of the African American slavery experience. Keyword: Interviewee: State: Any AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS ...

Buffalo Soldiers Photographed in Sidney New York in 1911. These photos were taken by Mary and Joseph Herrick, parents of Bob Herrick of Bainbridge, who also wrote the following descriptions. Click on photo to enlarge It was in 1911 and the U.S. 10th Cavalry camped out in Sidney on what is now the Sidney airport. The U.S. 10th Cavalry was composed entirely of Negroes, except officers, when they ...

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Black vaudeville gave Ma Rainey her start in show business -- Gertrude Melissa Nix Pridgett was born to sing the blues. This daughter of minstrel singers gave her first public performance in 1900 in A Bunch of Blackberries at the Springer Opera House in her hometown of Columbus, Ga. She was just 14. Jimi Hendrixs guitar playing a psychedelic symphony -- Eight-year-old James Marshall Hendrix ...

Five photos: The Medal of Honor, this nation's highest honor for valor under enemy fire, was awarded to four Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts.

Learn about Charlotte & Mecklenburg County's rich history with the CM Story. Mecklenburg People, African American community, Mecklenburg timeline of events, People on the Hill ...

Palmito Ranch is considered the last battle of the Civil War. Of course there has be a last battle in every war, but this one did not have to evolve my grandfather's regiment, the 62nd Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry.

Prematurely tested under fire, the exslaves, who made up the ranks of the 101st Regiment U.S.Colored Infantry, proved themselves to be men of courage. As an escaped slave, my Great-grandfather Henry Parker, who later became a sergeant in the Buffalo Soldiers, helped make up the ranks of these brave men of war.

Buffalo Soldiers buried at Ft. Bayard, NM To: afrigeneas@msstate.edu Subject: Buffalo Soldiers buried at Ft. Bayard, NM From: CA Savage CASAVAGE@msn.com Date: Tue, 3 Jun 97 02:51:41 UT Cc: casavage@msn.com When doing research at Ft. Bayard (on the eastern edge of Silver City, NM) I was able to visit the National Cemetary. Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry soldiers were buried ...

The Civil War Archive Union Regimental Histories Corps De Afrique 1st Regiment Cavalry Organized at New Orleans, La., September 12, 1863. Attached to Defenses of New Orleans, La., to April, 1864. Designation of Regiment changed to 4th United States Colored Cavalry April 4, 1864. 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery Organized November 19, 1863, from 1st Louisiana Colored Heavy Artillery. Garrison ...

37th United States Colored Troops - Recruits (Originally the 3d Regiment NC Colored Infantry) Involved in the Battle of Plymouth, NC Men were being recruited for the USCTs in the area of Plymouth, NC before the Battle of Plymouth took place on April 17-20th, 1864. A complete list of the men who were involved in the battle is not known, but through the research of the Civil War Plymouth Pilgrims ...

Civil War African-American Medal Of Honor Recipients The President of the United States in the name of the Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to: KELLY, ALEXANDER Rank and Organization: First Sergeant, Company F, 6th U.S. Colored Troops. Place and Date: At Chapins Farm, Va., 29 September 1864. Birth: Pennsylvania. Date of Issue: 6 April 1865. Citation: Gallantly seized the ...