African American History

African American History
-- National 

• African American History and Culture (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Manuscripts:  An Illustrated Guide) 
• African American History (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service)
• African American History:  17 Collections  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Memory)
• African American Odyssey  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Memory)
• Black History Teaching Resources (U.S. Smithsnian Institution.  Education)
• Booker T. Washington National Monument (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service)
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service.  Virtual Museum Exhibit)
• Frederick Douglass:  Online Resources  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Web Guides)
• Frederick Douglass Papers Edition (Indiana University.  Purdue University)
• The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University (Columbia University.  Institute for Resaearch in African American Studies.  Center for Contemporary Black History)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (Stanford University.  The Institute)
• Prominent African Americans (African American Web Connection)
• Resources  (U.S.  Smithsonian Institution.  National Museum of African American History and Culture) 
• Sojourner Truth:  Online Resources, comp. by Angela McMillan, Digital Reference Specialist  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides)  

-- New York State

• Langston Hughes and His Poetry, by David Kresh, Reference Specialist in Poetry, Humanities and Social Sciences Division  [webcast / transcript] (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Journeys and Crossings) - also includes related links, and bibliographies
• Slavery in New York (New York Historical Society.  Making History Matter)
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Virtual Museum Exhibit (U.S. National Park Service.  Museum Management Program)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828, by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert (University of North Carolina.  Documenting the American South) [full-text]
• Sojourner Truth (Sojourner Truth Memorial.org)
• Sojourner Truth Records (State University of New York at New Paltz. Sojourner Truth Library.  Special Collections)
• Common Cause:  The Anti-Slavery Alliance ofGerritt Smith and Beriah Green, by Milton G. Sernett (New York History Net)
• Gerritt Smith Virtual Museum (New York History Net, in cooperation with Syracuse University. Library.  Dept. of Special Collections, Hamilton College, Monroe County Historical Society, and Peterboro Area Historical Society)
• Henry Highland Garnet, 1815-1882 (Africawithin.com) 
• John Brown, the Abolitionist:  A Biographer's Blog (Abolitionist-john-brown-blogspot.com)
• John Brown Coming Home (JohnBrownComingHome.com)
• John Brown Farm State Historic Site (NYS.  Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation)
• John Brown's Farm, North Elba, NY   (New York History Net)
• Life of Harriet Tubman  (New York History Net)
• Links to Websites Relating to the Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and African-American Life in Auburn and Cayuga County, NY (Cayuga County. Historian's Office)
• National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (The Museum)
• New York Slave Trade, 1698-1741:  The Geographical Origins of a Displaced People, by Jeanne Chase [Histiore & Mesure, 18(1/2):  95-112] - abstract in Fr., article in Eng.
• New York State Rich with Abolitionist and Underground Railroad History (The Beat.  I Love NY.com)
• Hendrick I. Lot House (New York City.  Historic House Trust)
• The Underground Railroad in New York State (New York History Net)

-- Long Island, N.Y.  

• African American Museum of Nassau County (The Museum)
• African Slaves on Long Island, New York (History of American Women)
• The Amistad Insurrection (Long Island University. C.W. Post Campus.  B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library.  The African American:  A Journey from Slavery to Freedom)
• Bias Help, Inc. (BiasHelp.org)
• Black History on Long Island (Hofstra University.  Long Island Studies Institute)
• The Civil Rights Movement on Long Island:  A Local History Curriculum Guide for Middle School and High School, by Alan Singer, et al.  (Hoftstra University)
• Education Research Advocacy Support to Eliminate Racism (ERASE Racism)
• Invisible People of Suffolk, Nassau, Queens & Kings Counties, New York State (and Extended Families, comp. & ed. by Sandi Brewster-Walker (RootsWeb)
• Jupiter Hammon:  America's First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet (Lloyd Manor Historical Society)
• The Provisioning Plantation:  1652-1693:  Slavery as Economic Engine, by Patricia Shillingburg (Shelter Island.org)
• [L.I. Slave Revolt, Feb. 28, 1708], by Jesse Carey Smith (African American Registry)
• Seaman Joachim Pease, USN (1842-?) [Medal of Honor recipient] (U.S. Navy.  Naval Historical Center)
• Slavery (Brooklyn Historical Society.  Emma:  The Catablog of Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society)
• Slavery on Long Island (Hofstra University.  Library. Special Collections Dept.)
• Townsend Slave Bible Returns Home, by Dagmar Fors Karppi (Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot) 
• Venture Smith (Wikipedia)
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa:  But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America.  Related by Himself, electronic ed., by Venture Smith, 1729?-1805 1805 (University of North Carolina. Documenting the American South) -- The narrative, in part, vividly documents his life as slave and freedman on Fishers Island and Long Island, NY
• Documenting Venture Smith Project (Beecher House Center for the Study of Equal Rights)
• Samuel Ballton House (MAAP:  Mapping the African American Past.  Place Detail)
• Way Stations on Freedom's Road, by Marcelle E. Fischer (New York Times.  Long Island Journal, Ja 2, 2001)

-- Brookhaven Town (Suffolk County, NY) 

• Black History Commission (Brookhaven, N.Y. : Town) - includes contact information
• From Slavery to Emancipation in Brookhaven Town, comp. & ed. by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)