A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans
A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans is a a five-part series by Miami Herald which unveils the black experience through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quite but powerful civil and cultural rights movements flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garífuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not [...]
Black Wings: African American Pioneers In Aviation
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Black Wings tells the story of how one group of Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break into aviation. African Americans shared the universal dream of flight. But for almost 50 years after the Wright brothers’ historic flight in 1903, racial discrimination denied black Americans access to this important sphere of technology. This online exhibit is [...]
Separate Cinema Archive
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Beginning with the gift of a single poster in 1972, the Separate Cinema Archive has grown over the course of three decades to become a respected and comprehensive collection of more than 25,000 rare film posters, lobby cards and photographs originating from thirty countries. This astounding legacy, collected and maintained by Archive founder John Kisch, [...]
Underground Railroad
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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
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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 [...]
