Loc: African American Mosaic: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists

Although some African American abolitionists—such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass—are well known, others, like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, remain in the shadows of history. Harper was a poet and activist who played an...

Students describe issues or problems facing African Americans following Reconstruction. They explain possible solutions to these problems suggested in the sources you find, and cite arguments for and against these solutions.

American Memory, online exhibits and other areas of the Library's Web site provide a broad range of digitized materials pertaining to the African American experience.

Library of Congress presents a collection of primary source material on the beginnings of the American Colonization Society and efforts of free blacks to return to Liberia during the Nineteenth Century.

Contains text and photos on the African-American exodus to the West. Includes primary source documents and maps from the era.

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

A site that chronicles through documents the accomplishments of African-Americans, both slave and free, from colonial times through the Civil War.

Online version of a Library of Congress exhibit, covering information about black history, including colonization, abolition, migrations, and the WPA. It is multimedia and contains hundreds of primary source documents.

Timeline of African American History which links to other timelines and a larger Library of Congress site on African American perspectives.

A short description with primary source examples of the aid African American artists received from the WPA.