From the Encyclopedia of American Social History. Read about the black migration to the West, primarily Kansas and Oklahoma after the end of Reconstruction and the institution of black codes in the South.

A detailed presentation illustrating the history of Africans migrating to the Americas from as early as 1500 through the late 1860's. Review the distribution of Africans in North and South America, the initial settlements, escaped and...

A comprehensive resource that deals with the characteristics, life cycle, ecology, and conservation of the Oriole. In addition, there are lessons and activities that can be used in the classroom. The migration and annual cycle are also...

By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing...

Discusses the housing arrangements of African Americans and those with incomes in the Chicago area. Includes several pictures and links to further related information.

This resource is a companion site to a documentary about a major flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927, where in Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic...

This site from the National Park Service provides the history of Nidodemus, Kansas, first western town planned by and for African-Americans. Settled by exodusters, the town served as a symbol as a land of opportunity for blacks escaping...

Plants have migrated around the world just like people. This site explains how several African plants and food crops made their way into American life.

The homepage of the National Urban League, whose mission "is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power and civil rights."

Known as the American Black Bear or commonly the Black Bear, information is detailed on its appearance, weight, migration patterns, food sources, major predators and breeding. This is an excellent resource for the student researcher.

This entire website is entirely dedicated to hummingbirds. This is a great place to learn more about different hummingbird species, attracting and feeding them, migration patterns, and more.

The Library of Congress's African-American Mosaic ethnography series focuses on the migration of African Americans from the South to the Chicago.

This website is quite unique, in that it compiles historical data in a segmented form of the birth and evolution of Black Christianity in America. Carter G. Woodson, one of the most respected names relative to the anthology of the Negro,...

A look at Jacob Lawrence and his art, and instructions on how to make your own tempera paints and "paint your own story," using Lawrence's work as inspiration.

This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....

Photo of exodusters waiting for a steamboat to take them to the west in late 1870s.

Dive into the world of the Southern Right Whale. Visit this webpage to learn more about this Australian whale.