The Underground Railroad site from National Geographic takes students on a harrowing virtual trip to freedom. Exploring Amistad describes the 1839-1842 Amistad Revolt, a shipboard uprising off the Cuban coast. This multimedia site also explores the revolt's effect on debates over the slave trade, slavery, and race in Africa and America. The African American Mosaic presents textual material, photographs, maps and documents from the from the Library of Congress collection. Texas Buffalo Soldiers tells the story of the African-American troops who were involved in the westward expansion of the U.S. Boston African American National Historic Site includes an interactive tour of the Black Heritage Trail and information on important events in Black History.
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Exploring African American Issues on the Web offers Web-based activities for students. Black Facts Online allows students to search a database by date, subject, or key word to learn about African-American history. The African American History Historical Text Archive provides links to many other black history sites on the Internet. The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University includes a large number of primary and secondary source documents on King. Brown v. the Board of Education gives a brief history of this seminal Supreme Court case.