• Biography.com celebrates Black History Month
• The History of Black History
• Black History Month from Infoplease.com
• Black History Month from CNN
• Civil Rights Timeline
• Patchwork Of African-American Life
• African-American Women:  Online Archival Collection
This contains records on three African-American women. The first is the  life story of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1923) taken from 85 handwritten pages. The second is The Vilet Lester letter, written in 1857 while she was a slave. The third is slave letters of Hanna Valentine and Lethe Jackson, written in 1837-38.
• Africans in America
• Race & Place: African American Community Histories
This site is at the Virginia Center for Digital History, and contains primary documents such as: letters, newspaper articles, government documents, slaveowners' wills, documents on blacks in the military, reconstruction and the Freedmen's Bureau  from Augusta County Virginia and Franklin County Pennsylvania.
• Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African Americans

• The Arrival of Europeans in Africa
• The First Slave Auction in New Amsterdam in 1655
• Interior of a Slave Ship
• Africans in America: Part 1: The Terrible Transformation: 1450-1750
• Africans in America: Part 2: The Revolutionary Era: 1750-1805
• Africans in America: Crispus Attucks
• Confessions of Nat Turner
• Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Slavery in America
• Slavery in America
• Chronology of the History of Slavery in America 1619-1789
• African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine

• Africans in America: The Civil War
• Blacks in Georgia During the Civil War

The Ku Klux Klan
• Papers Relating to Crimes Committed By The Ku Klux Klan
"Statements, depositions, and other records submitted by Gov. William W. Holden relating to crimes of the Ku Klux Klan against citizens of North Carolina, 1869 - 1871"
• Discredited Histories of the Ku Klux Klan
• Handbook of Texas Online:Ku Klux Klan
• Ku Klux Klan
• Alabama Moments in American History: The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction
This site is maintained by the Alabama Department of Archives and History, and written by Dr. Glenn Fieldman of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and it discusses the KKK in Alabama in four ways: by a quick summary of events, a detailed discussion, by reprinting some primary documents, and by a bibliography of materials on the KKK in Alabama.
Freedmen's Bureau

• The Freedmen's Bureau


This is an article by W.E.B. Du Bois that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1901
• The Freedmen's Bureau Online
This site has information on black marriages registered with the Freedmen's Bureau from 1865-1867 in Ft. Smith Arkansas, other marriage records in other states, and article on the Freedmen's Bureau by W.E.B. Du Bois, records relating to freedmen's labor, and more.
• An Act to Establish the Freedmen's Bureau

Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
• What Is a Scalawag?
This site is maintained by the Alabama Department of Archives and History and is authored by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. It contains information on Scalawags in four areas: a brief summary, a detailed description, some primary documents, and a bibliography of other resources.
The Black Codes
• Handbook of Texas Online: Black Codes
• The Black Codes in the Former Confederate States
• South Carolina: Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws

Black Migration

• The Exodusters
This is a page part of the PBS series Perspectives on the West
• Afrohoma: Perspectives on a Black State of Oklahoma

Blacks in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877-1900

• Alabama's Black Leaders During Reconstruction
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• The History of Jim Crow
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

• Jack Johnson: A Listing of All His Fights
• Famous Texans: Jack Johnson
• Jack Johnson boxed, lived on his own terms
• Heavyweight History: Johnson-Jefferies Fight, Reno Nevada, 1910
• Langston Hughes
• Ernest Everett Just: 1883-1941
• George Washington Carver
• The Official Jesse Owens Web Site
• A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. DuBois
• The G.I. Bill, World War II, and the Education of Black Americans
• Harlem History

• National Baseball Hall of Fame: Jackie Robinson
• Brown v The Board of Education
• Rosa Parks: A Woman Who Changed A Nation
• Rosa Parks Portal
• School Integration in Little Rock: Arkansas: Introduction
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott
• I have a Dream Speech
• Sit-ins
• Freedom Rides
• Mississippi and Freedom Summer
• The Martin Luther King Center--Atlanta
• The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
• Voting Rights in Selma, Alabama
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement: Selma to Montgomery March
• The Black Panther Party