SPECIAL PROJECTS

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which were overcome while trying to succeed."
       -- Booker T. Washington

Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, the week in February celebrating the births of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, in the 1920s. Some 80 years later, the IP celebrates Black History Month by gathering a handful of educational and informative resources.

BlackVoices.com celebrates Black History Month 2001 with a look at historically black colleges and universities, past, present and future.

http://blackvoices.com/feature/bhm_01/

The Black Media Foundation's history page hotlinks to Black History Month and a great Black History Quiz. The site honors inspirational people, whose biographies are found under Archives.

http://www.bmf.net/history/history.html

Charles Isbell has created an ambitious Web site called A Deeper Shade of History. His searchable Black History database contains a plethora of interesting information about Black History.

http://www.ai.mit.edu/~isbell/HFh/black/bhist.html

As noted above in PEOPLE, Distinguished Women of the Past and Present celebrates Black History Month with hotlinks to biographies of black women and their achievements.

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/bh1.html

Part of the American Memory collection at The Library of Congress (LOC) includes the African American Odyssey. The LOC launched a five-year effort to add rare and unique items from the Library's vast African American collections to the National Digital Library, which can be seen here.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html

Netnoir.com's features the U.S. Postal Service Black Heritage collection. This tribute to Black Americans' role in U.S. history is not to be missed. Be patient if you have a slow modem. The feature itself is a beautiful work of digital art.

http://www.netnoir.com/postal/layout1.html

Tour the Afro-American Newspapers' Black History Museum.

http://www.afroam.org/history/history.html

After visiting the museum, go to the Kids Zone and try your hand at the Black History Quiz.

http://www.afroam.org/children/brain/historyquiz/q1.html

Top off your celebration at Jet Magazine's This Week in Black History, an added value throughout the year.

http://www.jetmag.com/jhist.html

Pamela J. Smith