This essay by John Rickford, linguistic professor at Stanford, provides a thumbnail overview of the history and grammar of

Stanford Professor, John Rickford, has posted a site on Ebonics. This page includes a number of letters and articles he's writte

Michael Eric Dyson and Bill Bosby discuss Ebonics

The Center for Applied Linguistics site has a number of articles on Ebonics. Full of great resources by linguists, people who st

This website links the reader to court cases, resolutions, articles about AAVE

This article discusses the use of language in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Good overview of Clark’s work

Robinson was one of the teachers in the Citizenship Schools. Nice bio

Great stories in this interview

Brief article on the role of Highlander Center

Good site for archives: Letters, photos, movies,

ood site for archives: Letters, photos, movies,

Great overview site. All of the curriculum guides, photographs, archives

Good historical background about how the Freedom Schools started

Great photographs and personal stories

NPR Audio Debate on reparations

Primary Source Document

Good overview background information on the origin of the phrase, the distribution of land to freed blacks, and then the redistr

Overview of the Amistad rebellion

Denmark Vesey was a self-educated black who planned the most extensive slave revolt in U.S. history

Gabriel Prosser planned the first major slave rebellion in U.S. history

This site has good, short articles on slave resistance, the abolition movement, the daily life of a slave, etc.

This text includes the photograph of a whipped slave as well as testimony and news articles. Good background information on the

PThe passageway of a slave fort was often the point of no return for captured Africans. Ottobah Cugoano wrote in 1787, "I was so

Good overview article that airs two points of view about the use of the "n" word by leading Black academicians

Several rappers have chosen to delete cursing and the "N" word in their music.

Dyson discusses the use of the "N" word on Democracy Now

Youtube discussion between Roland Martin and Michael Eric Dyson on CNN

Background information on Hurston

Background information on Hurston

Discussion of Hurston's language and her influence on Alice Walker and Toni Morrison

This article is both a review and a biography of Beaty