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Civil Rights Websites

Civil Rights Movement and PBS
from PBS

We Shall Over Come: Historic Places in the Civil Rights Movement
from the National Parks Service

Voices of Civil Rights Movement
from AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress

“With An Even Hand”:Brown Vs. Board at Fifty
from Library of Congress

Civil Rights Multimedia

Journey to Little Rock: the untold story of Minnijean Brown Trickey
Hodges Media Center / DVD: E185.6 .J687 2005

Brother outsider [videorecording] : the life of Bayard Rustin
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.97 .R93 B76 2002

Standing on my sisters’ shoulders
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.86 .S6977 2002

African-Americans [videorecording] : marching to freedom
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.61 .A37 1995

Our friend, Martin
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: PN1997 .O83 1998

4 little girls
Hodges Media Center / DVD: F334.B69 A24 1998

In search of freedom / Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968.
Hodges Media Center / Compact disc: E185.615 .K496 1995

W.E.B. DuBois of Great Barrington
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.97.D73 W2 1992

Saviors
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185 .S2 1991

Stirrings
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185 .S7 1991

The Road to Brown
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: KF373.H644 R63

The Second American revolution
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.615 .S375 1984

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.97.K5 M39

The rise and fall of Jim Crow
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.61 .R58 2002


History Month Resource Guides

African American History
UT Libraries

African and African American Studies Subject Guide
UT Libraries

Martin Luther King, Jr. Resource Guide
UT Libraries

African American History Month
US Dept of Education

Guide to Black History
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Black History Month Resources
Thomson-Gale Co.

Black History Month Resources
Infoplease

Black History Month Resources
Tennessee Tech University History Dept.

 


African American Online Exhibits

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
from University of California, Irvine Library

The Black Press: Soliders without Swords
from PBS

The African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992
from University of Michigan

Legends of Tuskegee
from National Park Service

African American Odyssey
from Library of Congress

Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of the Civil Rights Movement
from NewsRecord.com

Powerful Days in Black and White (Photos by Charles Moore)
from Kodak

 

Selected Reference Materials at Hodges Library

 

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Supplement
Hodges Reference E185 .E54 1996 Suppl.

Encyclopedia of African American business history
Hodges Reference HD2344.5.U6 E53 1999

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
Hodges Reference E185 .E54 1996

The encyclopedia of African American military history
Hodges Reference UB418.A47 W45 2004

The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to
the twenty-first century
Hodges Reference E185.61 .E54 2003

 

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Afro-American slavery
Hodges Reference E441 .D53 1997

 

Almanacs

Almanac of African American heritage : a book of lists featuring people, places, times, and events that shaped Black culture
Hodges Reference E185 .A448 2001

The African-American almanac.
Hodges Reference E185 .P55

 

Atlases

The African-American atlas : Black history and culture--an illustrated reference
Hodges Reference E185 .A79 1998
Map Library Atlases E185 .A79 1998

The Routledge atlas of African American history / Jonathan Earle.
Hodges Reference E185 .E125 2000

The atlas of African-American history and politics : from the slave trade to modern times
Hodges Reference E185 .S574 1998

 

Miscellaneous

Historical statistics of Black America
Hodges Reference E185 .H543 1995

Two hundred years of Black culture in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1791 to 1991
Hodges Reference F444.K7 B66 1993

Black history : a guide to civilian records in the National Archives
Hodges Reference E185 .N49 1984

The Harvard guide to African-American history
Hodges Reference E185 .H326 2001

The New York public library African American desk reference
Hodges Reference E185 .N496 1999

 

Historic Landmarks

Historic landmarks of Black America
Hodges Reference E185.53.A1 C36 1991

Hippocrene U.S.A. guide to Black America : a directory of historic and cultural sites relating to Black America
Hodges Reference E159 .T45 1991

African American historic places
Hodges Reference E185 .A2534 1994

 

Chronologies

The timetables of African-American history : a chronology of the most important
people and events in African-American history
Hodges Reference E185 .H295 1995

Timelines of African-American history : 500 years of Black achievement
Hodges Reference E185 .C86 1994

Chronology of African-American history : significant events and people from 1619 to the present
Hodges Reference E185 .H64 1991

Black firsts : 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events
Hodges Reference E185 .B574 2003

Timelines of African-American history : 500 years of Black achievement
Hodges Reference E185 .C86 1994

The African American years
Hodges Reference E185 .S797 2003

 

Biographies

Who's who in African-American history
Hodges Reference E185.96 .W46 1994

African American women : a biographical dictionary
Hodges Reference E185.96 .A45 1993

African American women in Congress : forming and transforming history
Hodges Reference E840.6 .G55 1997

The Black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and present
Hodges Reference E185.96 .S225 1992

 

Press & Indices

Black book publishers in the United States : a historical dictionary of the presses,
1817-1990
Hodges Reference Z471 .J68 1991

African American history in the press, 1851-1899 : from the coming of the Civil War
to the rise of Jim Crow as reported and illustrated in selected newspapers of the
time
Hodges Reference E185.2 .A25 1996

C.R.I.S. : the combined retrospective index set to journals in history, 1838-1974
Hodges Reference D1 .C75 1977

Index to periodical articles by and about Negroes.
Hodges Reference E185.5 .I53

 

Culture

Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940
Hodges Reference PS221.D49 v.51

Afro-American writers before the Harlem renaissance
Hodges Reference PS221.D49 v.50

The Afro-American short story : a comprehensive, annotated index with selected commentaries
Hodges Reference PS153.N5 Y3 1986

Afro-American poets since 1955
Hodges Reference PS221.D49 v.41

Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers
Hodges Reference PS221.D49 v.38

Afro-American fiction writers after 1955
Hodges Reference PS221.D49 v.33

Afro-American writers, 1940-1955
Hodges Reference PS221.D49 v.76

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Hodges Reference NX512.3 .A35 E53 2004

Black literature criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years
Hodges Reference PS153.N5 B556 1992

American musical traditions
Hodges Reference ML3551 .A53 2002

Black popular music in America : from the spirituals, minstrels, and ragtime to
soul, disco, and hip-hop
Music Library Stacks ML3556 .S5 1986

 



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Diversity Committee

 

Events in African American History



About Black History Month

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a native Virginian and Harvard historian, founded the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History in 1915. The mission of this association was to train black historians and to collect, maintain, and publish documents in African-American history. Dr. Woodson also founded The Journal of Negro History (1916) and the Negro History Bulletin (1937).

Eleven years later, in 1926, he established "Negro History Week" to promote racial understanding and to coordinate the study of the African experience in American and world history. The name changed to "Afro-American (Black) History Week" in 1972. At that time, a convention of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. changed their association name to the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. Black Americans wanted to focus on their African background and to recognize their specific contributions as American citizens.

The month of February was chosen for this celebration because it contained the birthdays of both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. During America's Bicentennial celebration of 1976, the Association shared prominently in the promotion of American history. The week-long celebration became Black History Month to allow more time for programs and study.


"There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace."
-W.E.B Dubois

 

 

 

"The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans."
-Malcolm X

 

 

 

"You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him."
-Booker T. Washington

 

 

 

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
-Frederick Douglass

 

 

 

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-Malcolm X

 

 

 

I want American History taught. Unless I'm in the book, you're not in it either. History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
-James Baldwin

 

 

 

History, as taught in our schools, has been a celebration of the white, male, Protestant found fathers rather than the great mix of people in the American drama.
-Mary Frances Berry

 

 

 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Martin Luther King, Jr
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