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REFERENCE SOURCES (a sampling)

ONLINE DATABASES - use keyword or subject online databases in OPAC or link from our home page at:

http://uhs.uniondaleschools.org/www/uniondaleschools_uhs/site/hosting/Library/uhslmcorg/databases.htm

WEBSITES:

Portrayal of African-Americans in the movies/television:

• African-Americans in the Movies : A Bibliography of materials

• African-Americans in Film and Television

• African-Americans in Motion Pictures : the past and the present

• African-Americans in the Media

• African-American history through the Arts : African-Americans & the  Cinema

The Congressional Black Caucus

• Congressional Black Caucus of the United States

• Congressional Black Caucus - Information Please Almanac

• The Congressional Black Caucus : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001.

New York State Association of Black and Latino Legislators

Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem : 1900-1940, An African-American Community

• The Harlem Renaissance

• Chicago Public Library  : The Harlem Renaissance - a selected list

• Encarta Africana : The Harlem Renaissance

• The Harlem Renaissance. An exhibit in San Francisco explores the artistic and cultural legacies of the 1920s and 30s. (February 20, 1998)

Influence of African-Americans in the music industry

• The 25 most important events in Black Music History
  

• African Influence on early American "White" music

Black Nationalism

• Black InterNationalism
  

• Black Nationalism
  

• Black Nationalism
  

• Black Nationalism and Rap Music
  

• Marcus Garvey
  

• Malcolm X
  

• Malcolm and Mandela : Black Nationasm  or Non-Racialism?
  

• University of California, San Diego : Ethnic Studies - Black Nationalism in the United States Many of the links on this page are only accessible to USCD students;however, there is an entire section of "web resources" that provide additional information to all.
  

• Black Nationalism - Pan African International Movement website.

Tuskegee Airmen

• Tuskegee Airmen - USAF Museum
  

• Headquarters of the Tuskegee Airmen

Role of African-Americans in the U.S. Military

• African-Americans in Military History
  

• African-Americans in the Vietnam War

Racism on college campuses

• History of Racism

African-Americans and the Fine Arts

• African Americans in the Visual : a historical perspective

City Mayors of African descent

• African-American mayors : race, politics and the American City
  

• http://www.africanamericanyearbook.com/files2005/05aay_p53-63.pdf

Portrayal of African-American youth in the media

• http://www.fcvp.org/Documents/mediaviolence_c2.pdf
  

• http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/getinvolved/1_4_02.htm
  

• http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/prba/perspectives/winter2000/cwatkins.pdf

African-American Painters and Artists

• http://www.providence.edu/afro/nmaa.htm
  

• http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afamwom.htm
  

• http://www.upf.com/Fall2001/monroe.html
  

• http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/painters.html
  

• http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~ga~70050~~

Alma Thomas, African-American Abstract Expressionist Painter, ca. 1891-1978.

• http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/thomas_alma.html
   

• http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=30300  (example of her work)
   

• http://www.phillipscollection.org/american_art/artwork/Thomas-Breeze_Rustling.htm (example of her work)
   

• http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_AfAm/pages/AfAm_9.shtml (example of her work)
   

• http://www.nmwa.org/collection/portfolio.asp?LinkID=753 (examples of her work)
   

• http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_artworks1.cfm?StartRow=1&ConID=4778&format=short&db=onlyart&LastName=&FirstName=&Title=&Accession=&Keyword (several examples of her work)
   

• http://www.tampagov.net/dept_museum/Collections/Paintings/index.asp
   

• http://americanart.si.edu/education/cappy/11athomasbio.html
   

• http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=753
   

• http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1167/Alma_Thomas_was_a_wonderful_artist
   

• http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1040
   

• http://www.artgallery.umd.edu/driskell/exhibition/sec5/thom_a_02.htm
   

• http://www.thewomensmuseum.org/site/PageServer?pagename=EXB_se_past_alma_thomas
   

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas
   

• http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=206724&attrib_id=7973

African-Americans involvement in international affairs

• http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/afroamericans/
  

• http://www.unc.edu/depts/afriafam/AnniversaryConference/wilkins.htm

Philosophy of Malcolm X

• http://www.africanaonline.com/malcom_x.htm

Role of African-Americans in the settlement of the West

• http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson04.htm
  

• http://www.africana.com/blackboard/bb_his_000188.htm
  

• http://www.tulsapreservationcommission.org/hist1.htm
  

• http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/subject/browse/hum30.55.85.20/
  

• http://ipl.ulis.ac.jp:8001/ref/RR/static/hum30.55.85.20.html
  

• http://dent.edmonds.wednet.edu/IMD/historyearlywest.html

Black Panther Party

• http://www.blackpanther.org/

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -His rise and fall

• http://www.adamclaytonpowell.com/
  

• http://www.black-collegian.com/african/adam.shtml
  

• http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_708.htm
  

• http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/acpowell.html
  

• http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_382.html
  

African-American poets and writers

• See also the library's database: 
  World's Best Poetry - http://www.litfinder.com
  

• http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
  

• http://www.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/afampoet.htm
  

• http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm
  

• http://www.nubianmindz.com/
  

• http://www.bluefield.wvnet.edu/library/afamlinks.htm
  

• http://www.rhodes.edu/library/refguides/RefGuideAfricaAmerican.html
  

• http://www.blackwriters.org/
  

Additional Websites:

African-American World -This PBS site was developed by WNET with support from National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Famous Firsts by African-Americans

Biography: Black History

The Museum of Black Innovations and Inventions

African-American Biographies

The Enyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History

Afro-American folktales