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Contents: 1. Websites 2. Primary Sources 3. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 4. Recommended Books

Websites:

Information, primary sources, photographs and more on African American history and culture -- www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/

Historical resource on integration of the armed forces and African American participation in World Wars I and II. --- www.army.mil/cmh-pg/topics/afam/afam-USA.htm

Detailed, well-documented chronology on the history of slavery and racism, primarily in the United States. --- innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

Timeline, articles, biographies, images and audio clips covering 2000 years of black history. --- search.eb.com/blackhistory

Information on the history of African American civil rights including an "online archive of selected stories submitted by people," essays, interviews, special reports and lists of resources. --- www.voicesofcivilrights.org

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Primary Sources:

African American history, perspectives, experiences, sheet music, baseball, maps, slave narratives, Frederick Douglass papers, churches and much more. --- memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/

Complete text of I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr (August 28, 1963), My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855), The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903) and Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington. --- www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/african_americans.htm

Primary sources documenting the cultural history of the American South. --- docsouth.unc.edu

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Transcript of the "I Have a Dream" Address delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC, on August 23, 1963. --- www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/

Brief biography of Reverend King from the Columbia Encyclopedia (2004). --- www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/

"Stories, videos, photo galleries and timeline chronicling the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr." --- www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/martin-luther-king-index.html

Find articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. in over 50,000 historical newspaper pages retrieved as pdfs. --- www.martinlutherkingjrarchive.com

The texts of some of his papers, speeches and sermons; a biography; excerpt from his autobiography; a chronology and more. --- www.stanford.edu/group/King/mlkpapers/

Information about Dr. King including his legacy, chronology, biography, King Papers Project and more. --- www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/

Information about the special collection of materials on Dr. King and the Civil Rights movement, featuring books, videos and audio recordings, all of which can be borrowed by SJLibrary Card holders. --- www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/king/

Encyclopedia on Africa and the African Diaspora with a focus on political, social and cultural history. African American history and culture in the present-day U.S. receive the strongest emphasis. Includes over 1,000 images (maps, tables, charts, photographs), hundreds in color.

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