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This site was created in honor of the United Nations' designation of 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition. Approximately 10,000 black people came to Nova Scotia between 1749 and 1816. This virtual exhibit celebrates the lives of Barbary (Barbara) Cuffy, Rose Fortune, Lydia Jackson, Richard Preston, Gabriel Hall, and the many other African Nova Scotians who arrived during that time. Sponsored by Nova Scotia Archives and Record Management.

This exhibit includes photographs, an historical timeline, and the personal recollections of some of the major figures behind the Baton Rouge bus boycott. It represents the combined efforts of students at McKinley High School and Louisiana State University graduate students of EDCI 5880, Summer Session 1998

Sponsored by the Duke University Medical Center Library, this site provides historical background about the African American contribution to medical education, hospitals, folk medicine, as well as a chronology of African American achievements in the medical profession.

Photo exhibit with text commemorating the strike. During the strike Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Memphis to support the workers but was tragically assassinated.

The official web site of The King Center located in Atlanta, GA. The mission of this site is to educate the world about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy and methods of realizing the dream. The site was founded by Mrs. Coretta Scott King.

This three-part web exhibit highlights the achievements of Washington, Carver and the Tuskegee Airmen. It features collections at Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site located in Tuskegee, Alabama, and selected items from the Booker T. Washington National Monument in Hardy, Virginia, and George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri. The exhibit also features collections from the Library of Congress, National Digital Library; National Archives and Records Administration; and the Department of Defense.

Portal to resources located in the Library of Congress which focus on Black history. Collection includes links to the Veterans History Project, the Harlem Renaissance, and a site developed for teachers including ready-to-use lesson plans, student activities, collection guides and research aids.

The official government web site to register and promote your Martin Luther Kin: day of Service projects, sign-up and manage volunteers, and report results.

This website presents digital images of 840 visual materials from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society that illustrate the role of Massachusetts in the national debate over slavery. Included are photographs, paintings, sculptures, engravings, artifacts, banners, and broadsides that were central to the debate and the formation of the antislavery movement

Beautiful pictures of the quilts as well as information on the people who created them.