L I N K S  to African American History

Biography Resource Center -- Click on the Biographical Facts Search and select Ethnicity African American for a list of more than 25,000 people, ranging from singer Aaliyah to librarian Itibari M. Zulu.

Heritage Quest -- Census records, Revolutionary War and Freedman's Bank records are a sample of the tools you'll find here.

Literature Resource Center -- Search Authors by Type, choose Ethnicity African American  and find more than 500 authors, including Toni Cade Bambara and North Carolina's Frank Yerby. 

NCLive -- North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education provides access to full-text magazine and newspaper articles as well as an extensive list of tools useful to those studying African American history:

• African American Poetry features 3,000 pieces of poetry published from 1711-1935.
  
• American Slavery : a Composite Biography in addition to the narratives of hundreds of slaves, there are links to the Archive of Folk Culture sound recordings and dozens of other historical resources under Related Links.
  
• Daily Life through History provides a look a view of life as it really was -- the Civil War and 20th Centry decades are particularly rich in details of African American history.
  
• Literature in Context -- the 20 sourcebooks offer a study of selected American novels in detail, including 4 by African American authors and 7 that prominently feature black or African American characters.
  
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries -- under Find Authors, searching by Race and selecting Black or Multiracial results in 47 matches, including Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth and Dorothy West.   
  
• Novelist has more than 5,700 books with African American as a keyword; clicking on the For Readers tab finds a link to Annotated Book Lists, which is featuring Materials of Interest for Black History Month. 
  
• Twentieth Century American Poetry yields 3,788 poems by African American poets (choose to search by Ethnicity).

ASALH -- Members of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History founded Black History Month.  Look at this venerable site for Black History Month themes from 1926 to the present. 

Documenting the American South -- From the North Carolina Experience, gain topical access to African Americans in this outstanding digitized collection

The Links, Incorporated -- Founded in 1946, the Links is one of the oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.  The Southern area includes North Carolina members.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers and students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of on of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture  -- A spectacular array of collections and services are offered from its home in the New York Public Library.

The Wilmington Journal -- This venerable newspaper has been serving the citizens of New Hanover County for nearly 80 years.