SIRS Knowledge Source: helpful for articles and access to quality websites.
Student Resource Center Gold: great for biographies and event or era overviews.
ABC-Clio: American Government & American History: Great source for overview, primary sources, and photographs.
History Resource Center: US (Thomson Gale)
NetTrekker - use this service to locate quality rated websites.
ProQuest Platinum & ProQuest Historical - use these to locate magazine and newspaper articles on your topic. The graphic interface may be especially helpful in ProQuest Historical.
SIRS Decades: provides newspaper and magazine coverage in American history. Mostly for 1900 - present.
African American World (PBS): Includes an illustrated timeline.
Citizenship, Due Process and the 14th Amendment.
Columbia University / Institute for Research in African-American Studies: Harlem History: biographical and political sketches as well as photo essays.
Digital History (University of Houston): America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War.
History Now / Race and the Constitution: see "ask the archivist" links to online issues.
The History of Jim Crow: provides background to Reconstruction and the institutionalized impediments to progress. Click here for a link to narratives: stories of people who lived through Jim Crow.
Landmark Supreme Court Cases: see links to cases and concepts in law.
Library of Congress / Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture: African American Mosaic. Includes information on the Great Migration.
National Archives / Archives Library Information Center / Black History: a list of annotated links.
National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tenn.): see the Gallery for biographical sketches and essays that dsicuss some of your research topics.