Duke Ellington’s Washington

The companion website of the one-hour PBS documentary, Duke Ellington’s Washington, about the African-American community in Washington D.C. during the early 20th century which nurtured the emergence of a surprising array of talented African-American lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and cultural figures, epitomized by Duke Ellington. The program is a dynamic blend of the music and pictures [...]

Underground Railroad

You are a slave in Maryland in the 1800s. Can you escape? Learn what challenges slaves faced in National Geographic’s Underground Railroad Adventure, an interactive website that allows users to trace and relive the experience of a runaway slave. Although primarily geared towards towards grade school students, the site gives all visitors of any age [...]

The History of Jim Crow

The History of Jim Crow is a wonderful Web site that provides a wealth of historical and reference materials on the segregation and the disfranchisement of African Americans from Reconstruction through the modern civil rights movement. The site was produced in conjunction with the PBS documentary The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. For more [...]

Africans in America

The Africans in America web site is a companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. The Web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States — from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865 — [...]

Celebrate Black History

 
An interactive, multi-media website from the same people that brought you cable television’s Biography Channel. The sites features profiles of prominent African-American personalities, ranging from Civil Rights Activist Malcolm X to Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, as well as quizes, games, videos and more about black history. Must See: Black History Timeline. For more information, visit Celebrate [...]

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