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African American history is broad and deep. While too vast to list all aspects, the links below provide key insight into various highlights. 

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
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P. O. Box 73067
Washington, DC 20056-3067

202.234.5350

info@aahgs.org
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