Pictured above: Sandra Kaddy, president of the Seacoast African American Cultural Center; Dzifa Patterson; Prof. Marta Werner of Loyola University Chicago; and UNH Prof. Casey Golomski at the Seacoast African American Cultural Center in nearby Portsmouth, NH, to which UNH students take field trips.
Learn about the relationships among communities of Africa and its Diasporas, including the United States, and the diverse meanings and power of Blackness globally.
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UNH Resources
- Center for the Humanities
- American Studies
- Race and Ethnic Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Queer Studies
Resources Beyond UNH
A search on “civil rights movement” provides links to more than 80 relevant websites and documents covering a wide range of civil rights topics and themes. Those sites, in turn, offer links to additional resources.
From the Association of College and Research Libraries (a division of the American Library Association), this is another excellent, vetted list of fantastic and wide-ranging online resources.
Introduction and capsule summaries of Library of Congress materials used and cataloged for the African American Odyssey exhibit. Searching the American Memory site uncovers many primary sources, some of which are available online.
Teacher-oriented webisodes 14 and 15 focus on the Civil Rights Movement.
This very interesting site contains much valuable first-person commentary and reflection, as well as links to images, documents, and a cool annotated timeline that emphasizes the contributions of ordinary citizens.
Southern Civil Rights movement timeline.
Additional African American Related Links
- Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire
- Black Voices
- Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
- Mosaicbooks.com
- Museum of African American History, Boston
- NAACP Home Page
- Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Seacoast African American Cultural Center
