Notable Past & Present African Americans

  • Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
  • Ten Little Known Black History Facts
  • The Undefeated: African Americans Who Shook Up The World
  • John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture | Exhibits | From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Representations of African Americans in Film
  • Harriet Tubman | More Harriet Tubman |
  • Sojourner Truth
  • NAACP History: W.E.B. Dubois
  • George Washington Carver
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Malcolm X
  • Rosa Parks (https://www.rosaparks.org/)
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
  • NAACP History: Roy Wilkins
  • African-American Women's Archives at Duke Univ.
  • Breaking Racial Barriers (Smithsonian) | African American Inventors | Astronauts and NASA pay homage to Juneteenth |
  • A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture) | Harlem Renaissance (Library of Congress Research Guide) |
  • Negro League Baseball Museum | Negro Baseball Leagues (1920-1950) |
  • By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights 1860s-1960s (Library of Congress)
  • The Scottsboro Boys (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture) | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (PBS) |
  • The Central Park Five

    African American Research (National Archives)

  • Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
  • African American Research (National Archives)
  • Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
  • Afro-American Genealogical Research (Library of Congress)
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