Diversity Resources: Diversity Web Resources

This exhibit showcases the African American collections in the Library of Congress including rare books, government documents, maps, films, and recordings.

From the Library of Congress, African-American Perspectives includes a timeline of African-American History, and the full-text of 351 titles including sermons, college catalogs, biographies, legal documents, and poetry.

This award winning site sponsored by the Afro-American Newspaper Company of Baltimore has links to culture, history, news, etc.

Maintained by State of Florida's Task Force on African American History, this site provides an overview of the history, experience, and contributions of African Americans.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit Michigan, the world's largest Black historical and cultural museum, is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of African and African American history and culture.

The Schomburg Center is a national research library which collects, preserves, and provides access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. The Schomburg web site offers information about the Center, as well as on-line exhibits and links to select Internet resources.

A World Wide Web project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America.

Extensive links to resources on Native Americans with emphasis upon Native American art.

An exhibition from the Library of Congress for Native American Heritage Month.

A national representation of American Indian organizations.

The University of Maryland women's studies database, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.

From the Library of Congress, this site currently offers on-line versions of studies of 71 countries. Studies are prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Are Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army.

This searchable web site from the U.S. Department of Justice contains a myriad of information regarding the ADA including status reports, settlement information, and technical assistance materials.

The ADA site.

A major collection of disability links from the New York Institute for Special Education.

From the University of California, San Fransisco, the DSC web site contains statistical information on disability and the status of people with disabilities.

The National Federation of the Blind is the largest organization of the blind in America. Interested sighted persons also join. Founded in 1940, the Federation has grown to include more than ten percent of the nation's blind (over 50,000 members).

Special Olympics is a nonprofit program of sports training and competition for individuals with mental retardation. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Special Olympics provides year-round training and athletic competition for more than one million athletes in nearly 150 countries and all 50 states in the United States.

toward self-awareness and development; and to provide forums for educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education.

The goal of this site is to serve the worldwide bisexual community by providing a free Internet presence for bisexual individuals, groups and non-profit organizations. The site also contains a large set of pages detailing resources including groups, organizations, magazines, and Internet newsgroups.

This web page links to Internet resources, grants, newsgroups and mailing lists, books, biographies, chat rooms, conferences and other information.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

A selective list of lesbian web sites related to politics and activism, arts and culture, and other issues.