Education

Resources in this category:

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

This comprehensive directory of African resources covers many topics including: Current Events/News (including African newspapers), Art, Culture, Education, History, Maps, Music, Politics, Religion, Travel, and more. Country information is also included, as is regional information for Central, East, Southern and West Africa, as well as the Indian Ocean Islands and the Horn of Africa. The site also includes a search function.

Black Education: From Charleston to Harlem
http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/1998/edu/home/home.htm

Hosted by "North by South," the final product of a year long seminar researching the migration of African Americans from south to north. Black Education explores the educational philosophies of Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois. Review illustrated text essays and bibliographies and link to and explore other topics such as music, art, health, and death in African American culture at locations both North and South.

Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research
http://brownvboard.org/index.htm

The site of the Brown Foundation presents information related to the "Brown v. Board of Education" case. The website contains an online photo and text exhibit, an online tour of Brown family historic sites, timelines, legal case descriptions, research resources, and a bibliography list for further learning.

Freedmen's Bureau
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/HIUS403/freedmen/bureau.html

The site contains historical informaiton about the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. "The Freedmen Bureau, as it was commonly called, was to address all matters concerning refugees and freedmen within the states that were under reconstruction." Site offers images, primary sources, and links to other resources.

Negro Periodicals in the United States
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/historic.htm

"The Negro Periodicals In the United States" was published in 1970. It deals with "early serialized publications on the African American as a subject." While it does not contain the contents of these publications, this web resource provides an annotated bibliography of each journal and facilitates locating historical information and primary sources.