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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)

 
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

Springfield: Augusta African-American Community

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

Robert Sengstacke Abbott

Ralph Abernathy

William G. Anderson

Benny Andrews

Raymond Andrews

Clarence A. Bacote

Cornelia Bailey

Robert Benham

Harrison Berry

Sanford Bishop

John Blassingame

Mel Blount

Julian Bond

William Holmes Borders

Thomas Brewer

James Brown

Jim Brown

John Brown

Andrew Bryan

Eugene Bullard

Ernest Butts, Jr.

Tunis Campbell

Ray Charles

William Craft

Austin Dabney (Dabney's Grave)

Daddy Jack

Ossie Davis

John Wesley Dobbs

Thomas A. Dorsey

Charles Dryden

W.E.B. DuBois

Henry O. Flipper

Tiger Flowers

Walt Frazier

Josh Gibson

Anthony Grooms

Lee Haney

Isaac Hayes

Roland Hayes

James Healy

Patrick Healy

Fletcher Henderson

Alonzo Herndon

Jesse Hill

Donald Hollowell

Larry Holmes

Hamilton Holmes

Evander Holyfield

John Hope

Lugenia Burns Hope

Maynard Jackson

Leroy Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

Vernon Jordan

John Oliver Killens

Bernice King

Coretta Scott King

C.B. King

Horace King

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Preston King

Primus E. King

Slater King

W.W. Law

John Lewis

Jefferson Franklin Long

E.K. Love

Joseph Lowery

Ludacris

Mammy Kate (Video)

Curtis Mayfield

Benjamin Mays

Cynthia McKinney

Ralph Metcalfe

Pink Morton

Edwin Moses

Elijah Muhammad

Jessye Norman

Ma Rainey

Usher Raymond

Otis Redding

Jackie Robinson

David Satcher

Georgia Sea Island Singers

Louis Sullivan

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Clarence Thomas

Henry McNeal Turner

Wyomia Tyus

Alice Walker

Herschel Walker

Sidney "Beau Jack" Walker

Horace T. Ward

Walter White

Dominique Wilkins

Hosea Williams

Hale Woodruff

Frank Yerby

Andrew Young


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