African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
This online exhibit from the Library of Congress showcases the Library's African American collections, including a wide array of rare books, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films and recordings.
The site tell the story of the African American experience through nine chronological periods: Slavery - The Peculiar Institution, Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period, Abolition, The Civil War, Reconstruction, the Booker T. Washington Era, World War I and the Postwar Society, the Depression, New Deal and World War II, and Civil Rights.
-- Mary Ellen Spencer, Head, Research and Reference.