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African American Studies

Current Happenings

Kansas State Historical Society, Notable Kansans of African Descent
http://www.kshs.org/people/african_americans.htm

Langston Hughes Festival 2003 KU Gordon Parks Photo display http://www.ur.ku.edu/News/03N/FebNews/Feb21/parks.html

Black History Month page at Gale free resources http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm

Harlem Book Fair 2004 (July)
http://www.qbr.com/hbf2004/hbf04mainpage.htm

Yahooligans -- Kids -- Black History Month http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc3/yahooligans/bhm

Scholars, Writers, "Intellectuals"

African-American Writers (Infoplease)
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmlit1.html

Writing Black (Keele U.)
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html

Langston Hughes

KS Humanities Council  biographical page http://www.ku.edu/kansas/crossingboundaries/page6e1.html

Gordon Parks

Biography from Gale
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_g.htm

Gordon Parks Collection Pittsburg State U. Lib
http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxparks.html

Microsoft Entertainment page, Parks Films
http://entertainment.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=341562

Yahoo African-American Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cultures/American__United_States_/African_American/Literature/

Contemporary Books

Black Writers http://www.mjsg.com/books/aa_authors.htm

Links to Academic Programs

Providence College Page of Links http://www.providence.edu/afro/programs.htm
KU Dept. of African & African-American Studies http://www.ku.edu/~afs/
KSU American Ethnic Studies http://www.ksu.edu/ameth/faculty.htm
WSU Ethnic Studies http://criminaljustice.wichita.edu/ethnicweb/

Info Resources

Encyclopedia Britannica Black History Page
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/

Kansas Humanities Council African American and American Culture
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/crossingboundaries/

African American Culture and History (Smithsonian)
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm

The Schomburg Center
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Resources in Black Studies (U. of California Santa Barbara)
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/black.html

African-American Culture (College and Research Libraries News)
http://www.ala.org/acrl/resjan99.html

The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

African-American History (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/african.html

African-American Perspectives (Library of Congress) 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

African-American Studies Scholarly Resources (Columbia U.)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/afam/resource.html

African-American Studies (UCLA Lib.)
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/africanamer/

African-American Genealogy on the Web
http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/robeson/genealogylinks.html

Center for Black Music Research (Columbia Coll., Chicago)
http://www.cbmr.org/styles/index.htm

Brown vs. Board of Education archive (U. Mich)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/index.html