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Web Resources

1. Oberlin College African American Studies Department Online Library


2. Oberlin College Library Collection Development Policy for the African American Studies Department


3. African American Biographical Database

1. African American Review
2. The Quarterly Book Review
3. Higher Education Resource Network
4. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
5. Ohio State Black Studies Library - Comprehensive site with links to journals periodicals and papers on African American Studies.
6. African American Male Research On a bi-monthly basis African American Male Research summarizes the latest social scientific findings most important to the African American male's interests and status.
7. A Deeper Shade of Black
8. Oberlin College Library

1. The Beginnings of the American Colonization Society
2. Liberia
3. Personal Stories and ACS New Directions
4. Introduction & Handbills & Publications
5. Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
6. Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
7. Introduction & Maps
8. Western Migration and Homesteading
9. Nicodemus, Kansas
10. Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
11. Introduction to the Work Projects Administration
12. Cavalcade of the American Negro
13. Authors and the Federal Writers' Project

Other Websites and Activities Exploring Slavery

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Atlantic article on Sojourner Truth (email the English Server at postmaster@english.hss.cmu.edu)


2. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at the University of Houston
   (email = romaine@pipeline.com )
   1. Francis Henderson describes living conditions under slavery (1856)
   2. James Martin remembers a slave auction (1937)
   
   
3. The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier and telling what daily life was like for the "colored cavalry." (email = khp@mis.net)

African American Leaders

1. Profiles of Some Important 19th Century African Americans (email = bright@webcom.com)

Leaders

1. The Confessions of Nat Turner Website
2. The Kwanzaa Information Center from MelaNet (Send MelaNet feedback)

Various

1. Marcus Garvey's speech posted by Steve Thoemke (email = sthoemke@nermal.santarosa.edu)
2. The Seattle Times' excellent Website for Martin Luther King, Jr. (email = bris-new@seatimes.com)
3. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and "I have a Dream" speeches
4. Congressional Black Caucus of the 103rd Congress 1993 - 1994
   (email = amcgee@netcom.com)
5. Malcolm X's Chickens Come Home to Roost speech and homepage "da crib" (email = jfmcdo00@pop.uky.edu)
6. CNN's amazing Website offers
7. President Clinton's speech on race relations
8. a report on the November 1, 1995 elections in South Africa.
9. CNN article: "An Emotional Celebration for Thousands of Black Men"
10. CNN article: "Celebrities Speak out at the Million Man March"
11. Transcript of Louis Farrakhan's speech
12. CNN Article on the march and Louis Farrakhan
    (email = cnn.feedback@cnn.com)

Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa

1. Project Cape Town a multimedia teaching case
   1. World map showing South Africa's location
   2. "Black Power!" (Newsweek magazine) chronicles South Africa's change from white to black rule.
   3. "Time to Take Charge" (Time magazine) reports on the election leading to black rule

1. Biographical Information on Nelson Mandela and background on the ANC (email = webmaster@anc.org.za)
2. An Excerpt from Nelson Mandela's "Long Walk to Freedom" (email = twep-webmaster@www.timeinc.com)

1. Rita Dove's "Lady Freedom Among Us" (email = campbell@virginia.edu)
2. Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning" (linked from MIT at email = isbell@ai.mit.edu)

Opinions, Ideas, and New Celebrations

African American Networking Directory/IGC (email= africanam@igc.org)

1. Tupac Shakur
2. Crack in East Oakland
3. African-American News Service (gopher)
4. United Muslims of America (dead email link)
5. AFRO-AMERIC@

1. BET
2. AFRICANA
3. NetNoir

1. African Music Encylopeadia

Institutional Changes

Tufts University Postings

1. United Nations Statement on Slavery (7 Sep 1956)
2. United Nations Statement on Minimum Age for Child Labor (26 Jun 73)