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Selected Web Sites
- Africans in America.
- Working in conjunction with the six-hour PBS series covering the history of slavery in the US from its beginning to the end of the Civil War. The video series is available from the Sherrod library Media Center, on the library's third floor.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
- African American Odyssey
- This virtual exhibition from the Library of Congress' American Memory Project provides digital images from rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores and recordings.
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
- Afro-American Almanac
- A factual record of African American culture, this site offers access to information about hitorical events and people, as well as notable documents, commentaries, poems, folktales, and speeches.
- http://toptags.com/aama/
- A Roadmap to African-American Resources
- The site provides access to a variety of African-American resources. Lists also by U.S. state, including Tennessee.
- http://cisit.santafe.cc.fl.us/~sdupree/RESORLIK.HTM
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ETSU Departmental Web Sites
- ETSU Department of History, African-American Studies Page
- In addition to describing the program in African-American Studies, the page provides additional links to Web sites.
- http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/afamstud.htm
- ETSU Diversity Education Program: resources on African American Studies
- This page provides links to selected resources in African American Studies. The site provides additional information about diversity education at ETSU.
- http://www.etsu.edu/equity/facdiv/ethnic.htm#African
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Selected Bibliography
- Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
- New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) DT14 .A37435 1999
- Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook.
- Palo Alto, CA: Information Publications, 2000
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) E185.86 .B53 2000
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Pasadena CA: Salem Press, 2000
- E-Books from NetLibrary
- http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=51642
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
- New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) E185 .E54 1996
- The Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage
- New York: Facts on File
- E-Books from NetLibrary
- http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=4535
- Historical Statistics of Black America
- New York: Gale Research, 1995
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) E185 .H543 1995
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