African American History

Colonial Period

African Americans in St. Augustine, FL  1565-1821
https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/african-americans-in-st-augustine-1565-1821.htm

PBS - Why Slaves escaped to Florida for asylum
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/secrets-spanish-florida-slaves-escaped-florida-asylum/3647/

History of Fort Mose (Florida)
https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/history-fort-mose

Project 1619
https://www.project1619.org/

The 1619 Project - New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/
magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

National Geographic -New England Colonies' Use of Slavery
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/new-england-colonies-use-slaves/

Slaves in New Amsterdam
https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nys09.soc.k-6.statloc.slaves/slaves-in-new-amsterdam/
 

19th Century

National Park Service - National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1205/index.htm

Library of Congress - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 1936 to 1938
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about

National Park Service - Black Homesteaders 
https://www.nps.gov/home/black-homesteading-in-america.htm

National Park Service - Reconstruction Era
https://www.nps.gov/reer/learn/historyculture/historyculture.htm

Equal Justice Initiative - Reconstruction in America-Racial Violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876
https://eji.org/report/reconstruction-in-america/

20th Century

National Archives - The Great Migration
https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/migrations/great-migration

Red Summer - The Race Riots of 1919
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/red-summer

NMAAHC - A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance