Common Read: Black History

American History TV visited the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond’s exhibit on 400 years of African American history. Curator Karen Sherry focused on the period between 1619 and the Civil War, sharing stories about individuals who led slave revolts, educated fellow freed people, and participated in abolitionist John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. This was the first of a two-part tour.

American History TV visited the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond to look at their exhibit on 400 years of African American history. Curator Karen Sherry focused on the period between Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, sharing stories about individuals who were elected to Congress, served as Tuskegee Airmen and fought for desegregation.

n this 1979 speech, James Baldwin talked about being a black writer, about the civil rights movement, and other topics.

‘We want our freedom and we want it now.’ — Watch the historic words of 23-year-old John Lewis at the March on Washington. (NowThis News)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech at the National Conference on New Politics in Chicago. Here, he speaks about what he calls the Triple Evils: War, Racism and Poverty. (The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change)

The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.

BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. These materials include an online encyclopedia of over 4,000 entries, the complete transcript of more than 300 speeches by African Americans, other people of African ancestry, and those concerned about race, given between 1789 and 2016, over 140 full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and six gateway pages with links to digital archive collections, African and African American museums and research centers, genealogical research websites, and more than 200 other website resources on African American and global African history. Additionally, 100 major African American museums and research centers and over 400 other website resources on black history are also linked to the website, as are nine bibliographies listing more than 5,000 major books categorized by author, title, subject, and date of publication.

American History TV visited the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond’s exhibit on 400 years of African American history.

Duke University interviewed a number of African Americans in 1993-1995 to preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s

From the Minnesota Historical Society, Black History, Black Voices is a rich resource that contributes to the understanding of Black History and the contributions Black Americans have made to their state.

Black History in Two Minutes (or so) is the new way to immerse yourself in Black History. Presented by Be Woke.Vote, the digital video series features dozens of short, engaging and factually accurate videos about important historical events or people who have shaped American history. Like never before, people of all ages, backgrounds and educational levels can learn more about the African American experience.

While this site cannot attempt to serve as a comprehensive history of the Black experience in Cleveland, Ohio, we are happy to offer a sampling of materials that collectively tell a broader story about African American life in Cleveland, Ohio. We invite you to explore.(Cleveland Memory)

The project highlights women who had made significant contributions to American society in the first half of the twentieth century. The interviews discuss family background, childhood, education, significant influences affecting their choice of primary career or activity, professional and voluntary accomplishments, the ways in which being black and a woman had affected their options and the choices made

Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. Developed by Case Western Reserve University.

Ohio History Central is maintained and was developed by the Ohio History Connection as a reference source for and about the people of Ohio.

"What happened here changed the world."