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CPL Databases:
These resources have an abundance of information for Black History
Month. You must have a Canton Library card to access with our subscription.
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America
the Beautiful - Timelines
of historic events
Biography
Resource Center
- Biographies
of Black Americans
Dictionary
of American History -
Historical topics and events
World
Book Online - Historical topics, events, and people
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African-American
Colonial Life - from Colonial Williamsburg
African-Americans
in WW II - a photo collection from The History Place
African-American
Mosaic: a Library
of Congress resource guide for the study of Black History and Culture
Amistad
The Amistad Revolt was a shipboard uprising that set off an intense legal,
political, and popular debate over the slave trade.
Black
History Month History, timelines, crosswords, quizes, biographies,
and other special features from the Fact Monster site.
Black
History Month from Galeschools.com - Includes biographies,
timeline of events, quiz, activities, and African American literature.
Black History: Past to Present An Interactive
Treasure Hunt relating to Black History and African American Heritage.
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords Information
about African American journalism and journalists from the PBS film.
Celebrate Black History Month Online exhibit
from the History channel.
Civil Rights Quiz If you ace this quiz, try
others at the InfoPlease Black History site like: Arts & Entertainment,
Black Athletes and Thinkers, Educators, and Leaders.
Culture and Change: Black History in America
Information on famous African Americans, online activities and an interactive
timeline from Scholastic.
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Includes a timeline, biographies and audio/visual clips.
Events in African-American History Timeline
of historical events covering from 1600 to the present.
Hall of Black Achievement Gallery Images and
biographies from Bridgewater State College.
History
of Black History From InfoPlease.com
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
From the NY Public Library's Digital Schomburg Collection.
Montgomery
Bus Boycott - the story of behind this important part of civil
rights history, including information about Rosa Park
Profiles
in Black Biographies of people of black heritage from all walks
of life
Timeline
of the Modern Civil Rights Movement From InfoPlease.com
The
Underground Railroad
We Shall
Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement Stories
about important places, and the events that occured there, from the National
Register of Historic Places.
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