A Select Guide to African American Resources on the
Internet
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Index * Subject Areas
See Also: Organizations
College & Universities
- DiversityWeb
- "A Resource Hub for Higher Education"
- Historically Black Colleges & Universities
- The Black Collegian Online
- "Career Site for Students and Professionals of Color"
- HBCU-CENTRAL.COM - The Original Mega-Site for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- "Provides several means of searching for information on Historically Black Colleges and Universities."
Libraries, Museums, Research Centers
- International Black Inventions Museum
- "The International Black Inventions Museum promotes positive images and self-esteem in children and adults and teaches people of all nationalities about the contributions that Africans throughout the world have given to society. It is a mobile museum which travels nationally and internationally to inform in a visual display. The display consists of every day items such as the window cleaner, the egg beater, lawn mower, space shuttle retrieval and more."
- Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet - African-American Libraries, Archives & Museums
- " A list of African American Libraries, albeit with a genealogical slant."
- Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site (National Park Service)
- National Civil Rights Museum
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- The King Center
- "Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the King Center is the living memorial and institutional guardian of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy."
- W.E.B Du Bois Institute
- LAFD - African American Firefighter Museum
- The Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Admissions, Scholarships & Fellowships
- Black Excel
- "Black Excel: The College Help Network helps students and their parents navigate the college admissions process."
- The Spectrum Initiative: Information and Application
- The Ron Brown Scholar Program
- "The Ron Brown Scholar Program honors the memory of the late Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown, who among many accomplishments was a visionary, a unifying force, an inspiring leader and public servant. The Program is specifically focused on young African-Americans of outstanding promise; it seeks to accelerate their progress into the mainstream of leadership positions in business, education, government, and a wide spectrum of professions."
- Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
- "The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) was established in 1987 to carry on Justice Marshall's legacy of equal access to higher education by supporting exceptional merit scholars attending America's Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)."
- Minority Scholar Resources
- "...[L]ist of resources was compiled by APSA (The American Political Science Association) to assist individuals in groups that underrepresented within political science and related disciplines."
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