Poynter Online's Links to the News column compiles Web resources on current and previous news topics. This page links to resources about Black History Month. Subject headings include: Carter G. Woodson, Teaching Resources, Centers and Institutes, Civil Rights Movement, History of the Black Press and more.
Poynter Online Disentangling Desegregation Discourse (Keith Woods, February 2004) http://poynteronline.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=60326Unconventional Wisdom About Martin Luther King, Jr. (Mary Sanchez, January 2004) http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=59153Covering King (Keith Woods, September 2003) http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=46697More Than a Dream (Peter A. McKay, 2002) http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=4163&sid=5Just Head Down to Martin Luther King (Victor Merina, 2002) http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=14549 MLK on What Great Leaders Do (Lillian Dunlap, 2002) http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=2555Journalism: A Sense of History (Victor Merina, 2000) http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=14348 On The Road to Civil Rights (Keith Woods, 1997) http://www.poynterextra.org/extra/king/begin.htmLinks to the News: Remembering Coretta and Martin Luther King, Jr.http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=96077Poynter Online Diversity Resources http://poynteronline.org/subject.asp?id=5
Carter G. Woodson Biography http://toptags.com/aama/bio/men/cwoodson.htm The Carter G. Woodson Institute http://www.virginia.edu/~woodson/
Education First: Black History Activities http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html Education World http://db.education-world.com/perl/browse?cat_id=2743Social Studies School Service http://catalog.socialstudies.com/ Eyes on the Prize Curriculum Guide http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/1/92.01.03.x.htmlU.S. Civil Rights in the 1960's Lesson Planhttp://ted.coe.wayne.edu/sse/units/civil.htmEduscapes.comhttp://eduscapes.com/42explore/civilrights.htmStudent Perspectives of Black History Month (CNNfyi, 2001)http://www.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/specials/bhm/story/student.stories.html
Louisiana State University (Selected Reference Resources)http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/Princeton University (African-American Studies Resources)http://www.princeton.edu/~aasres/ Cornell University (John Henrik Clarke Africana Library)http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/ Black Collegian Magazine (Great African Americans)http://www.black-collegian.com/african/index-history.shtml New York University (Afro-American Newspapers and Journals)http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/soc/afr-amer/a-ajrnls.htmUniversity of Delaware (African American Biography)http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/blks/resguide/afambio.htmIndiana University (Archives of African American Music and Culture)http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/University of California, Santa Barbara (Resources in Black Studies)http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.htmlAfrican American History Timeline(University of Washington)http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/aa_history_public/aatimeline_index.htmDuke University (John Hope Franklin Collection)http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/franklin/
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarnSchomburg Centerhttp://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html John Hope Franklin Research Center http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/franklin/ W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/ UGA Institute for African American Studies http://www.uga.edu/~iaas/home.htmlCharles H. Wright Museum of African American History http://www.maah-detroit.org/ National Underground Railroad Freedom Center http://www.undergroundrailroad.org/
Library of Congress Web Projects
African-American Odyssey http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html African-American Mosaic Resource Guide http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html The Free African-American Press http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2b.html#02f African-American Pamphlets http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.htmlThe Civil Rights Era http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
Media Sites: Black History and The Civil Rights MovementBiography.comhttp://www.biography.com/blackhistory/Montgomery Advertiser (December 1, 2005)(The story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement)http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/frontpage.htm PBS http://www.pbs.org/aajourney/ CNN (2002)http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/index.htmlThe Indianapolis Star (2002)http://www.starnews.com/library/factfiles/history/black_history/Portraits in Black History and The DeucesSt. Petersburg Times (2002)http://stpetetimes.com/2002/webspecials02/portraits/Christian Science Monitor (2001)http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/bhmonth/p-bhindex.htmlNational Geographichttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/ Savannah Morning News (2001) http://www.savannahnow.com/features/voices/Spokesman-Review (2001) http://www.spokesmanreview.com/library/civilrights/cover.aspCivil Rights Movement (Time Magazine) http://www.time.com/time/newsfiles/civilrights/Greensboro Sit-Ins (News & Record)http://www.sitins.com/Central High: 40 Years Later http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/Battle for Civil Rights Remembered(Dan Rather, CBS News, 2005)http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/01/eveningnews/main677444.shtmlNPR Fresh Air Interview about the Freedom Riders(Terry Gross interviews Raymond Arsenault, January 12, 2006)http://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5149667
Various Web Sites:The Civil Rights Movement On The Road to Civil Rights (By Keith Woods, Poynter, 1997) http://www.poynterextra.org/extra/king/begi.htmReporting Civil Rights (Library of America)http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/National Civil Rights Museum http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/Birmingham Civil Rights Institutehttp://bcri.bham.al.us/ The Civil Rights Era (Library of Congress)http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html Civil Rights Movement Veteranshttp://www.crmvet.org/Online Photo Exhibit by Charles Moorehttp://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml Sojourn To The Past Civil Rights Tourhttp://www.sojournproject.org/Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversaryhttp://www.centralhigh57.org/ Civil Rights Movement (About.com) http://racerelations.about.com/msubcivilrights.htm Oral History Documentation Project (University of Southern Mississippi) http://www.usm.edu/crdp/Civil Rights in Mississippi (University of Southern Mississippi) http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.htmlCivil Rights Act of 1964 (CongressLink / Web Archive) http://www.congresslink.org/civil/essay.htmlDigital Classroom: Civil Rights Act of 1964 (National Archives) http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/civil_rights_act/civil_rights_act.html Civil Rights Act (1964) (Ourdocuments.gov)http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97 Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commissionhttp://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/brownvboard50th/index.htmlLooking Back: 'Brown v. Board of Education' (NPR)http://www.npr.org/news/specials/brown50/Celebrating 50 Years of Brown v. Board of Education(National Education Association)http://www.nea.org/brownvboard/ Brown v. Board of Education: A 50th Anniversary Exhibit(Seattle University)http://lawweb.seattleu.edu/information/brown/home.aspBrown v. Board of Education (FindLaw)http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=347&invol=483Brown v. Board of Education (Legal Information Institute)http://www.law.cornell.edu/
History of the Black PressThe Black Journalists History Project (Maynard Institute) http://www.maynardije.org/programs/history/"Soldiers Without Swords" (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/To Plead Our Own Cause (Newseum)http://www.newseum.org/History of African-American Newspapers http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~aas405a/newspaper.htmlAbout The Crisishttp://www.thecrisismagazine.com/about.htm BlackPressUSA.com http://www.blackpressusa.com/National Association of Black Journalistshttp://nabj.org/National Newspaper Publishers Associationhttp://www.nnpa.org/African-American Newspapers and Periodicals (Wisconsin Historical Society)http://wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/ Freedom's Journal (Wisconsin Historical Society)http://wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/
History of the Black Press: Biographies
"Ida B. Wells, A Passion for Justice" http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wells.html Ida Bell Wells-Barnett House (National Park Service)http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/il2.htm Frederick Douglass National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/frdo/freddoug.html "The Caldwell Journals" (Maynard Institute)http://www.localcommunities.org/lc/maynard"Fighting to be Heard" (Chuck Stone / CNNfyi)http://www.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/specials/bhm/story/chuck.stone.htmlEthel Payne Oral History Interview (Washington Press Club Foundation)http://npc.press.org/wpforal/payn.htmMarvel Cooke Oral History Interview(Washington Press Club Foundation) http://npc.press.org/wpforal/cook.htmCharleyne Hunter-Gault Oral History Interview(Washington Press Club Foundation) http://npc.press.org/wpforal/hunt.htm
Additional Resources A Roadmap to African-American Resources (Sherry Sherrod DuPree)http://cisit.sfcc.edu/~sdupree/RESORLIK.HTMSmithsonian Institution (African American Resources)http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm Afro-American Almanac http://toptags.com/aama/BET.com http://www.bet.com/NAACP Historyhttp://www.naacp.org/about/about_history.htmlHistory of the National Urban Leaguehttp://www.nul.org/history.htmlAfrican American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Schomburg Center)http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/ The History Makershttp://www.thehistorymakers.com/
