| African American Digital Experience in Illinois | ||||||
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Explore the Illinois Black experience in cyberspace: history, organizational and social activities, media, and data. This February 2011 edition invites you to add everything we have missed. We will include your additions via a monthly update. All of us are important, all the ancestors and all aspects of everyday life must live again in digital form. | |||||
OUR TOP WEBSITE PICKS |
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| African American Coal Miner Information Center (multiple counties): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blackcoalminers/ |
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| Coalition of Black Trade Unionists | ||||||
| Illinois Legislative Black Caucus |  |
http://themixonline.net -This is a for-profit eBlack Bloomington-Normal site that includes a Cyber-Church and Cyber-Business directories; they also generate online content for people in the area. |
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| Genealogy | ||||||
| NAACP | ||||||
| National Society of Black Engineers |  |
Latting Rodeo Productions (Pembroke Township, Kankakee) http://www.lattingrodeoproductions.com/ -This is the family business responsible for the Pembroke Black Rodeo -see interview with Michael Latting at http://avbarn.museum.state.il.us/BioID/76 |
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| Urban League | ||||||
| eBlack Studies |  |
Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club (St. Clair) http://bsmcswil.com/ -This is a site by Black motorcyclists and veterans around East St.Louis and Brooklyn; they update it regularly and are a service-oriented org. The song you may hear play on the first page is not giving a shout out to Brooklyn, IL as we were hoping, but rather NY. |
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| Harold Washington | ||||||
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African American Leadership Roundtable (Aurora) http://www.aalroundtable.org/home.vpd -Bonding social capital working for their local historical community |
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| Sisters and Friends
(Bloomington-Normal) http://www.sistersandfriendsartshow.com/index.html -Women, plus a best case example of utilizing the latest content-management-system (CMS) software |
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| Free Frank: New Philadelphia, IL
(Pike) http://www.anthro.illinois.edu/faculty/cfennell/NP/newphilgeog.html |
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| Black Community Oral History
Project (Springfield) http://www.uis.edu/archives/projects.htm#BLACK -24 transcripts of oral histories from the Springfield Black community. |
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| Working in the Seams - An Initial
Photographic View into the African-American Coal Culture of Southern Illinois (multiple southern counties) http://www.prairie.org/workingintheseams |
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| Mounds African American Museum
(Alexander) http://thesouthern.com/news/article_37177a28-d2e0-5f50-8ad9-95292cbdab7d.html -unfortunately this newspaper article is the most informing link on this mom-and-pop museum dedicated to local and national Black history |
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