PBS Africans
in America : Good General Information about the African American Experience
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Slave Narratives : First and Second Person Narratives by and about being a slave
General African American History at About.com
African American Troops in the Civil War here and also Civil War history at Library of Congress
Sharecropping generally and Sharecropping at Wikipedia
Ku Klux Klan at Encarta and at About
Plessy v. Ferguson at a school site and the Supreme Court Ruling
Jim Crow Laws and at PBS
Pictures of the Great Depression at the Library of Congress and at Wikipedia
Short History of the Blues and at All about Jazz
Desegregation at the Library of Congress and at the National Park Service (opens in Adobe Acrobat) and at Rutgers University
Civil Rights Movement at Library of Congress and at the Civil Rights Museum
Text of Brown v. Board of Education and lots of information at the University of Michigan