Archive for November, 2009
Afri-Quest, The People’s Archive
I have not seen this site before, but it claims to be a collaborative free genealogical information site. From the website:
Welcome to Afriquest, the free online database for records of African American genealogy and history. Afriquest is a place to share and preserve documents, images and family oral history. Every document, image or story you [...]
African American Genealogy Links Page
I found what appears to be a very comprehensive page of links on African American Genealogy:
http://www.africanaheritage.com/Eleanors_Links.asp
Check it out and let me know what you think.
Digital Library of Georgia Puts Three Historic Newpapers Online Free
From the AfriGeneas site:
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the free online availability of three historic Georgia newspapers: the Macon Telegraph Archive, http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/telegraph, the Columbus Enquirer Archive,http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/enquirer, and the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive, http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/milledgeville. Additional newspaper digitization projects are currently underway and will be announced as they become available online. For more information, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )UNC Chapel Hill Presents African Americans in the South Exhibit
From October 8, 2009 – February 5, 2010, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present an exhibit detailing life and culture of African Americans in the South. The exhibit is entitled We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present.
The exhibit features newly aquired items and [...]
Black Abolitionist Papers Now Online
According to the American Library Association’s African American Studies Librarians Section: Covering the time period between 1830 and 1865, this collection of primary source records “…is the first to comprehensively detail the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War.”
The record set, put online by ProQuest, [...]
