Education – African American 

African Centered Education  

http://www.melanet.com/watoto/afrocentric.html  

Evaluation guide for teachers of African American preschoolers, colleges offering major and minor degrees in African or in African American Studies, and more.

Association of African Women Scholars  

http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws

From Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the Association of African Women Scholars promotes excellence in scholarship, networking and activism.

Black Excel: The College Help Network 

http://www.blackexcel.org

To help students to navigate the college admissions process are data, essays, college profiles, scholarship guidance, and a multitude of links.

Gateway to Historically Black Colleges and Universities  

http://www.edonline.com/cq/hbcu/c_state.htm

Use the drop-down menu to link to the homepages of historically Black institutions of higher learning.

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

http://www.jbhe.com

News, views, features, book reviews, statistics and more make this journal a must-see for anyone involved in education.

Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary  

http://www.centralhigh57.org

A chronicle of the dramatic integration of this high school in 1957.  Each of the nine African American teenagers who graduated from the previously all-white school has achieved significant personal and professional success.

Racial Desgregation in Public Education in the U.S.  

http://www.nps.gov/chsc/racialdesegregationreport.pdf

You can read the 136-page text of this history of separate and unequal schooling.

United Negro College Fund  

http://www.uncf.org/forstudents/index.asp

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste," and "UNCF is proud to make a difference in the lives of thousands of students each year, so that they may in turn make a difference in the lives of millions of others for a lifetime." This is the pre-eminent African American scholarship program. 

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