AFRICAN MISSOURI

This homepage supplies links to information, articles, and narratives about the State's history taken from sources such as the Official Manual of the State of Missouri, Preservation Issues by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, African American Heritage of St. Louis by the St. Louis Public Library, the Black Studies Gopher of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and narratives provided by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection and University Archives (University of Missouri System).

• Official Manual of the State of Missouri from 1973-74 
• Official Manual of the State of Missouri from 2001-02
• Before Dred Scott: Freedom Suits in Antebellum Missouri from the Archives of the Office of the Secretary of State 
• A Timeline of Missouri's African American History from the Archives of the office of the Secretary of State
• Preservation Issues by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Program
• Missouri Slave Data website, created and maintained by Traci L.Wilson-Kleekamp with many excellent links into historical and statistical material.
• African American St. Louis  materials on the Western Historical Manuscript Collection's web page.
• African American Heritage of St. Louis: A Guide by the St. Louis Public Library.
• African American Family History Research by the Missouri State Archives, Missouri State Information Center.
• Slave Narratives: Missouri from the WPA Project and the Rawick Collection (University Archives).
• The Freedmen's Bureau established by the War Department in 1865, supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen.
• Black Archives of Mid-America by the Kansas City Public Library has links to such items as the Annotated Directory of African American History compiled by Mike Madin of Academic Info. 
• Online Missouri History Resources by the State Historical Society of Missouri
• African American Archaeology, History and Cultures from Professor Fennell of the University of Illinois-Urbana

• A Partial List of African Americans Lynched in the United States since 1859 is available from Christine's Genealogy Website [choose Contents, then Lynching and the Klan].
• Without Sanctuary by James Allen and John Littlefield and published by Twin Palms Pub. presents photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America.

Protest documents : These are propaganda materials collected in print in the St. Louis area. The source of the Slave Consultant's Narrative has never been established. The other documents entered here are published and distributed by the All African People's Revolutionary Party.

• The Slave Consultant's Narrative: The life of an Urban Myth?
• We Are African Period!
• The Land Question
• Zionist Logic

• African-American Archaeology: Newsletter of the African-American Archaeology Network
• Excavations at Little Africa - A Missouri Freedmen's Community by Brett Rogers
• The Brown Lodge/Caldwell Pottery Site, Arrow Rock, Missouri by Timothy Baumann
• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, (a part of The American Memory Historical Collections..., Library of Congress)
• Amistad Research Center for African American studies at Tulane University
• The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
• African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
• Cleveland State University has created a page providing information to students looking for a school committed to diversity. (Thanks to John Goldberg for the link.)
• The Underground Railroad site by the National Park Service
• The Black Collegian Online: the Career and Self-Development site for students and professionals
• The Black World Today is a daily chronicle of Black communities and countries.
• Black History Hotlist by Tom March and sponsored by Pacific Bell

• Summary of the "New Comprehensive African American Report" (2/23/95)
• Summary of the " The Black Population in the United States:" March 1996 (Update)
• Facts on the Black/African American Population from the 2000 Census