There are many useful links listed below. For your convenience, they are listed in alphabetical order. All links on this list are provided "as is". The Avery Research Center is not responsible for inaccuracies on the sites listed.
Up to date information on the continental Africa
African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide
African Ancestry
Slave owners often changed the names of their captives, and poor record-keeping has prevented ost searchers from tracing their bloodlines to Africa. African Ancestry offers two types of DNA tests and says it can trace at least one family bloodline to specific geographic areas on the African continent.
AfricaNews Online
African news
Africa Policy Information Center
Information on African issues and the U.S. role in Africa
AfriGeneas
AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats.
Amistad Research Center
The Center is a manuscripts library for the study of ethnic history and culture and race relations in the United States.
Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable (AAC) of the Society of American Archivists
The Society is the oldest and largest archival association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 3,400 individual and institutional members. The AAC Roundtable helps to identify concerns and promote the needs of archivists and archives of color.
ASALH Website
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
Association of African American Museums
Avery Class of 1952!
On June 4, 1952, thirty-one members of the graduating class of Avery High School, Charleston, South Carolina, were awarded their diplomas.
Beach Institute/King Tisdell Cottage
Beach Institute and King Tisdell Cottage Foundation - Savannah, Georgia
Caw Caw Interpretive Center
The Center, rich in natural, cultural & historical resources, is comprised of several former rice plantations that operated during the 18th and most of the 19th century. Here & throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry enslaved Africans & African Americans were forced to apply their West & Central African agricultural experience, technology, & skills to rice cultivation.
Center for Black Music Research
Welcome to the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), a research unit of Columbia College Chicago. The CBMR is devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.
Center for Southern African American Music
Charleston Black Heritage
Official Visitors Guide for African American History and Culture
Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau
Charleston, South Carolina
New Site - Charleston Heritage Federation
The Charleston Heritage Federation is comprised of non-governmental 501 © 3 museums and preservation organizations. The member organizations are devoted to the protection, preservation, and professional stewardship of buildings, sites, objects, and natural places/landscapes significant to the heritage and culture of Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. The organization works to enhance communication and cooperation among its members; provide joint marketing opportunities; and to educate the public concerning preservation and interpretation of historic places and museums.
City of Charleston
Through this resource, we strive to provide interesting and helpful information about our local government as well as links to the community in general.
Civil War @ Charleston
African-Americans in the Civil War
College of Charleston
Official web site of the College of Charleston
Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Depictions of Slavery in Confederate and Southern States Currency
Original Acrylic on Canvas Paintings by John W. Jones
Dancing the Art of Jonathan Green
"Off the Wall and Onto the Stage - Dancing the Art of Jonathan Green
Don Mabry's Historical Text Archives
African-American resources page
Family Tyes SC
Providing creative arts, cultural & family programming to holistically
impact the self esteem and self concepts of culturally diverse youth.
Gallery Chuma
43 John Street, Charleston, South Carolina
Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition
Gullah Language and Culture
Gullah.Net
South Carolina ETV's Gullah resources page. Stories, music, audio files, and more.
Gullah Tours
Afro-American Sites and Stories. Hear Charleston folktales told in Gullah.
Humanities Council South Carolina
The Humanities Council SC funds, promotes, counsels and coordinates all manner of thoughtful (and thought-provoking) endeavors ... exhibits, documentaries, discussion forums, research, planning, workshops, dramatizations, lectures ... and on and on ... that pertain to the humanities
Indiana University
Black Film Center Archive
Jonathangreenweek.com
From March 1 to March 8, 2008, the Lowcountry will celebrate "Jonathan Green Week.” Inspired by a magnificent new painting of Green’s entitled “Seeking,” a series of cultural events will celebrate the artist and his many contributions to cultural life in the Lowcountry.
Kamusi Project
The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
Marlene O'Bryant Seabrook
Dr. Marlene O'Bryant Seabrook weaves powerful stories and images into her quilts. A graduate of Avery, she retired in 1987 after a 30-year career in education. She lectures on African-American quilting, conducts workshops, exhibits nationally and is featured in several books on quilting and design.
MOJA Festival
A celebration of African-American and Caribbean Art, Charleston, South Carolina.
Moorland-Spingarn at Howard University
The Moorland-Springarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.
NCBAA
National Council on Black American Affairs
New York Public Library
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
NOW with Bill Moyers - PBS
Web site contains information about Gullah/Geechee culture as assembled by PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers
Pantovic Collection
The Pantovic Collection includes 19th century newspaper articles, bills of sale, shackles, identification tags, photographs, manillas, and other authentic items that tell the true story of American slavery. The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston offers this visual glance at U.S. history using selected artifacts from this one-of-a-kind collection.
Penn Center
St. Helena Island, South Carolina
Penn Center is one of the nation's most historically significant African-American educational and cultural institutions. It was established early in the Civil War, before emancipation. The purpose was to educate the freed slaves on the sea islands around Port Royal Sound that had been occupied by the Union on November 7th, 1861.
Piccolo Spoleto Festival
Piccolo Spoleto, the official outreach program of Spoleto Festival USA, was founded in 1979 and is produced and directed by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs.
Rhett's Charleston
Exploring Charleston - past and present.
Sites and InsightsTours
Tour sites and insights of Charleston's ubiquitous Black history from a Black perspective and see how it made Charleston one of America's richest cities.
SoulOfAmerica.com
Travel company offering travel packages of special interest to African Americans. Excellent information on travel destinations.
South Carolina Archives and History Center
Helpful tips for researchers, a guide to their archival collections, basic history and facts about South Carolina, ways to contact them, and links to other sites with related information.
South Carolina Arts Commission
The South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) was established in 1967, as an agency of state government to develop and implement a comprehensive statewide program to advance the arts in South Carolina, and to assure their excellence.
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is being developed by private citizens, governmental agencies, conservation groups, businesses, and communities to promote economic development in rural areas of South Carolina through heritage tourism.
Spoleto Festival USA
Seventeen days and nights of over 120 performances of opera, dance, music and theater in venues throughout historic Charleston, South Carolina. Spoleto Festival USA…called "one of the best arts festivals in the country, if not the world" by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Teaching American History in South Carolina
A state-wide approach to teaching professional development
Uncle Davey's Civil War Shop
Civil War collectibles
World African Network Online
African/African-American news online |
