Resources

Web Sites

Ella Fitzgerald
http://www.americasstory.com/pages/jb_0425_ella_1.html

African American Art:
A Los Angeles Legacy Lesson Plans;
Key artworks; About African American art http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/African/index.html

The ride for liberty
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1555.html

The Underground Railway
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html

American memory: Library of Congress http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb
Excellent biographies, historical content to writers such as Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and others

African American in the Visual Arts: a perspective http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm

African Americans in the 20th Century
- a biographical tour of the World Wide Web
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/htmls/humafro.html

A Blues Aesthetic
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/blues.html

Baby Yar. Yevgeni Yevtushenko
http://www.remember.org/witness/babiyar.html

Cora Unashamed: The Harlem Renaissance
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/
americancollection/cora/harlem_text.html

James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html

Langston Hughes Library of Congress
http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/joplin.htm

Literature and Life: The Givens Collection. PBS
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/litandlife/index.html

Rothko, Mark. Microsoft ® Encarta ® Online encyclopedia 2001.
http://encarta.msn.com
©1997-2000. Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.

http://www.nga.gov/feature/Rothko

Swinging with the Duke. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/ellington/
In Behind the Scenes, writer Gerald Jonas describes Ellington's music and collaborations. In Meet the Artists, read interviews with Wynton Marsalis and jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves. Finally, we take a glance at Ellington's life in A Look at the Work.

Duke Ellington, Library of Congress
http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/ellington

Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Weary Blues
http://www.geocities.com/xxxjorgexxx/a05.html

Works by Langston Hughes
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/
americancollection/cora/works.html

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