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African-American History and Culture

Georgia African American

History and Culture

General Resources

African Americans with Georgia Ties

Though some of the following websites are national in scope, they carry useful information about Georgia African American history and culture.

 
The Civil Rights Digital Library

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
 
African American Perspectives (Pamphlets in the Library of Congress from 1818-1907)

African American Web Connection
 
Africans in America website (PBS)

Black Quest
 
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
 
Christine's Genealogy Website
 
Chronology of the History of Slavery

Freedmen's Bureau Online

History and Geography of the Underground Railroad (NPS)

National Civil Rights Museum

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art 

Southern Christian Leadership Conference
 


Resources on Black Georgians



African-American Historical and Genealogical Resources Available from Georgia's Secretary of State

Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum

Atlanta Black Crackers Baseball Team

Black Colleges and Universities in Georgia

Blacks in Georgia During the Civil War 

Freedmen's Bureau Online: Georgia Records (selected)
 
Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum (Savannah)
 
Elizabeth Johnson Harris Life Story, 1867-1923
 
 
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom [circa 1850]
 
 
Tubman African American Museum (Macon, Ga.)


 

African Americans with Georgia Ties

Hank Aaron

Ralph David Abernathy

Julian Bond

Cornelia Bailey

Sanford Bishop

James Brown

Ernest Butts, Jr.

Tunis Campbell

Ray Charles

Austin Dabney

Thomas A. Dorsey

W.E.B. DuBois

Henry O. Flipper

Josh Gibson

Lee Haney

James Healy

Patrick Healy

Alonzo Herndon

Evander Holyfield

John Hope

Lugenia Burns Hope

James Weldon Johnson

Vernon Jordan

Mammy Kate

Bernice King

Horace King

Coretta Scott King

Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Lewis

Joseph Lowery

Benjamin Mays

Cynthia McKinney

Ralph Metcalfe

Pink Morton

Edwin Moses

Elijah Muhammad

Jessye Norman

Ma Rainey

Otis Redding

Jackie Robinson

Georgia Sea Island Singers

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Clarence Thomas

Henry McNeal Turner

Wyomia Tyus

Alice Walker

Herschel Walker

Walter White

Hale Woodruff

Frank Yerby

Andrew Young

 

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