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About the African American History Project

Introduction

This assignment asks students to choose an African-American figure whose invention / discovery / creation indelibly marked our world. This guide provides a starting point for research, including useful databases, books, and journal articles.

Resource requirements:

For historical information (i.e. biographical works, historical context for the subject's achievements, etc.) materials from any time period is acceptable.

For contemporary information (i.e. discussion of the subject's impact on our current circumstances) materials must have been published within the last 10 years.

Detailed Assignment Instructions:

Please click on the document below.

African American Research Project Criteria

Useful Databases

African American History This link opens in a new window
(Infobase Publishing) - Exploring more than 500 years of the African-American experience, history, and culture.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
African American Experience This link opens in a new window
(Bloomsbury) - The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
Black Studies This link opens in a new window
(Proquest) - Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars, and librarians, ProQuest Black Studies brings together ProQuest's award-winning Black Studies content into one destination for research, teaching, and learning purposes. This database combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies. Alongside the outstanding content in the database, ProQuest Black Studies includes easy to use functionality such as timelines, topic pages, and collection pages that allow students and researchers at all levels to easily navigate the database to find the sources they need.
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Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
(Gale) - Contains contextual information on the world's most influential people. This database merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)

Ebook and Article Sources by Topic

Marie Van Britain Brown
Video from Films on Demand database.

Adventures in Heat and Cold by Bernard Nagengast; Randy Schrecengost
ISBN: 1947192426
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Includes a chapter on Frederick McKinley Jones
Great Lives from History by Alvin K. Benson
ISBN: 1587655233
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
Includes entries on Louis Latimer, Granville T. Woods, Madam C.J. Walker, Garrett Morgan

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Brian C. Odom (Editor); Stephen P. Waring
ISBN: 9780813057323
Publication Date: 2019-10-16
American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. It provides new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad.Essays explore how thousands of jobs created during the space race offered new opportunities for minorities in places like Huntsville, Alabama, while at the same time segregation at NASA's satellite tracking station in South Africa led to that facility's closure. Other topics include black skepticism toward NASA's framing of space exploration as "for the benefit of all mankind," NASA's track record in hiring women and minorities, and the efforts of black activists to increase minority access to education that would lead to greater participation in the space program. The volume also addresses how to best find and preserve archival evidence of African American contributions that are missing from narratives of space exploration.NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement offers important lessons from history as today's activists grapple with the distance between social movements like Black Lives Matter and scientific ambitions such as NASA's mission to Mars.
Changing the Equation by Tonya Bolden
ISBN: 9781419707346
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Changing the Equation is a celebratory and inspiring look at some of the most important Black women in STEM. Coretta Scott King Honor author Tonya Bolden explores Black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America. Including groundbreaking computer scientists, doctors, inventors, physicists, pharmacists, mathematicians, aviators, and many more, this book celebrates more than 50 women who have shattered the glass ceiling, defied racial discrimination, and pioneered in their fields. In these profiles, young readers will find role models, inspirations, and maybe even reasons to be the STEM leaders of tomorrow. These stories help young readers to dream big and stay curious. The book includes full-color and archival images, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index. "Bolden, a master of the collective biography, presents an impeccably-researched call to action, imploring black girls to fight the racial and gender imbalance that plagues the STEM field." --School Library Journal (Starred Review) "Young people are sure to find intriguing role models among the many STEM all-stars in this comprehensive look at the achievements of gifted Black scientists and doctors." --Booklist

Article about Emmett Chappelle

The New CEOs by Richard L. Zweigenhaft; G. William Domhoff
ISBN: 9781442207677
Publication Date: 2011-05-01
The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, and Asian-American CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff look at these "new CEOs" closely. Weaving compelling interview excerpts with new research, the book traces how these new CEOs came to power, questions whether they differ from white male Fortune 500 CEOs in meaningful ways, asks whether the companies that hired them differ from other companies, and discusses what we can learn about power in America from the emergence of these new CEOs. As Americans continue to debate corporate compensation, glass ceilings, and colorblind relationships, The New CEOs shares information critical to understanding our current situation and looks toward the future in our increasingly globalized world. The paperback edition of The New CEOs features a new Introduction and an updated comprehensive list of new CEOs to date.
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women by Susannah Walker
ISBN: 9786613233097
Market Women by Cheryl A. Smith
ISBN: 9780313361838
Publication Date: 2005-06-30
In stark contrast to popular belief, women of the African Diaspora have engaged in economic and leadership activities throughout the course of history. Black women around the world draw from a tradition of thousands of years of strategies that have enabled them to face and conquer the challenges of life as women of color. And yet today, black women are marginalized by an economic and financial community still dominated by white men. In Market Women, educator, activist, and entrepreneur Cheryl Smith sets the record straight, applying insights from a variety of fields to trace the roots of black women's entrepreneurship, as it is currently practiced in the United States. Featuring in-depth interviews with 19 present-day entrepreneurs (in ventures as diverse as catering, bookselling, millinery, and construction), Smith reveals an approach to business that is based on personal relationships, pooling of resources, a sense of humor, apprenticeship and mentoring, and strong mother-daughter bonds that defy traditional definitions of business success, wealth creation, and power. In the process she gives voice to a long-disenfranchised group whose struggles and triumphs in business illuminate universal themes that transcend race and gender. The result is a rich and unique study of business from a fresh and eye-opening perspective and an inspiring account of achieving success against tremendous odds.
Double V by Lawrence P. Scott; William M. Womack
ISBN: 0585278008
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Another jewel in the growing literature about African-American contributions to aviation has arrived with the release of Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen. Thoroughly researched and punctuated with absorbing personal vignettes, the book is far more than a rehash of the struggles and triumphs of the famed black pilots and crewmen who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II....

Emmett Till by Devery S. Anderson; Julian Bond (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781496802859
Publication Date: 2015-08-18
Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision.
Shirley Chisholm : Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
ISBN: 9781469671192
Publication Date: 2023
Death or Liberty by Douglas R. Egerton
ISBN: 9780195306699
Publication Date: 2009-01-13
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. Includes a section on Elizabeth Freeman.
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
ISBN: 9781416590316
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.

One Blood by Spencie Love
ISBN: 0807863068
Publication Date: 2000-11-09
One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death.
Twice As Hard by Jasmine Brown
ISBN: 9780807025086
Publication Date: 2023-01-24
In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical school.
Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South, 1880-1960 by Thomas J. Ward Jr.
ISBN: 9781557287564
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
In this comprehensive account, Thomas J. Ward examines the development of the African American medical profession in the South. Under segregation, the white medical profession provided inadequate service at best to African American patients. Paradoxically, African Americans could gain financial success and upward mobility by becoming doctors themselves. Ward tracks the rise of African American medical schools, professional organizations, and hospitals.
Arkansas Women by Cherisse Jones-Branch (Editor); Rachel Reynolds Luster (Contribution by); Loretta McGregor (Contribution by); Michael Pierce (Contribution by); Debra Reid (Contribution by); Yulonda Eadie Sano (Contribution by); Sonia Toudji (Contribution by); Gary T. Edwards (Editor, Contribution by); Michael B. Dougan (Contribution by); Sarah Wilkerson Freeman (Contribution by); Dianna Fraley (Contribution by); Rebecca Howard (Contribution by); Elizabeth Jacoway (Contribution by); Kelly Houston Jones (Contribution by); John Kirk (Contribution by); Marianne Leung (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780820353326
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Includes a section on Mamie Phipps Clark
Free All Along by Stephen Drury Smith (Editor); Catherine Ellis (Editor)
ISBN: 9781595588180
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
In the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize - winning author and poet Robert Penn Warren interviewed key leaders of the civil rights movement including Kenneth B. Clark

Vaporizing Cataracts
Article about Dr. Patricia Bath's invention.

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