Links to History Sites relating to African American History

Black History Sites

Black History Timeline -- 1517 to present from eb.com (Encyclopedia Britannica)

An essay from this Website's contents page. The website is an online version of a 1925 book, Survey Graphic - Haarlem: Mecca of the New Negro. This site also has scanned images of the original book cover. It contains many essays on Black History, plus a great section about Black Matter and Classifieds.

Granville Sharpe history tidbit on this webpage is followed by a modern organization still trying to spread Christianity and fair trade to Sierra Leone, as Granville Sharpe was focused on. Here's a more standard bio of Sharpe with a good bibliography.

Richard Allen -- Black separatism under the Anglican church. A good article with specific religious history of Quakers, Methodists, and the Anglican church in Philadelphia.

Andrew Bryan is featured in this bio page from pbs.org. He is also featured on this page from oldestblackchurch.org, the website for The First African Baptist Church, which Bryan founded.

The Mulatto People website revives the term mulatto and discussed the issues facing mixed-race people. The site has a section on Celebrities and Achievers.

Moors in modern day Africa -- Mauritania is mentioned in the CIA World Factbook page for Mauritania. The factbooks says this nation is 100% Muslim and make no mention of minority religions. This is what is meant today by "Islamic State."

Quotes and Notes - Famous Black Historical Characters

Pedro Nino - also called The Negro, fellow voyager and discoverer with Christopher Columbus. Here's crew info for Columbus' ships

Booker T. Washington - Topicsites.com

Olaudeah Equiano aka Gustavas Vassa - a timeline of his life. Also spelled Gustavus Vassa, here's an excerpt from the autobiography he wrote.