Black History Month Resources from Greenley Library

Black History Month:
Greenley Library's Guide to Resources

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience (new for 2005)
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience launched Feb. 2005 in honor of African Ame rican History Month. Created by New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the groundbreaking new Web site makes accessible to the general public more than 16,500 pages of essays, books, articles, and manuscripts, 8,300 illustrations, 100 lesson plans, and 60 maps that will help users understand the peoples, places, and the events that have shaped African America's migration traditions of the past four hundred years.
Thompson-Gale's Black History Month Celebration (new for 2005)
Thomson Gale has assembled a collection of materials, including biographies of significant African-American individuals, information about African-American Literature, a Black History Month quiz, a timeline of events that helped shape African-American heritage, and activities taken from the Black History Month Resource Book.
The African-American Mosaic Exhibition at the Library of Congress
This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. This exhibit is but a sampler of the kinds of materials and themes covered by the publication and the Library's collections.
Black Hisotry Month Resources from the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
National Civil Rights Museum
"Created in December 1997, the purpose of this Web site is to support the National Civil Rights Museum's mission to educate and preserve the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Located at the Lorraine Motel, the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the Museum houses interactive exhibits that trace the beginnings of the civil rights struggle."
Museum of Afro-American History--Boston
"The Museum of Afro American History (MAAH) is a no t-for-profit history institution dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New England."
Stamp on Black History Home Page
This website, created by students, features black American's who have been honored by a postage stamp. Biographies of each person accompany a photo of the stamp.
The Black Archives of Mid-America
"The Black Archives is a non-profit organization that serves the community by offering itself as an educational resource as well as a repository of every facet in African American culture; music, art , theater, education, the military, medicine, sports, religion, and community affairs." Great picture gallery online.
Farmingdale State's Mart in Luther King Jr.Research Guide
Find links to websites describing the life and impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.