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Diversity Biographies

Explore links found in your print resources.
Go to Databases+ first for EBSCO, Gale, & World Book
Biography.com Bios Search
Encyclopedia of World Biographies/Notable Biographies

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Thomson Gale Black History Free Biographies (May overlap with Gale in Databases+)
Biography.com's 200 Black History Notables
Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History: Biographies
The King Encyclopedia
African American Registry
Africans in America: People & Events (includes Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Dred Scott)
Thomson Gale Hispanic Heritage Biographies (May overlap with Gale in Databases+)
American Indian Biographies A to Z
Academy of Achievement (includes Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Elie Wiesel)
Americans Who Tell The Truth (Companion Website to the Book)
America's Story: Meet Amazing Americans (includes Benjamin Banneker, Leonard Bernstein, George Washington Carver, Cesar Chavez, Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall)
Top North American Athletes of the 20th Century (ESPN)
PBS Jazz Biographies (includes Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington)
PBS Kids' Jazz Greats (includes Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington)
Inventors Hall of Fame (includes George Washington Carver & Percy Julian)
Poets.org (includes Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley)

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott: PBS The Chicago Defender
Robert Sengstacke Abbott: PBS Biography

Muhammad Ali: Offical Website
Isabel Allende: Official Website

Julia Alvarez: Offical Website
Luis Alvarez: NobelPrize.org
Marian Anderson Historical Society

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
Marian Anderson: Afrocentric Voices in "Classical" Music
Maya Angelou: Official Website

Louis Armstrong House

Ella Baker Center
Josephine Baker: Official Website

Benjamin Banneker: LOC
Daisy Bates: Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture

Leonard Bernstein
Mary McLeod Bethune: Bethune-Cookman University

Mary McLeod Bethune: NCNW

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry Foundation

George Washington Carver: Tuskegee Institute

Cesar Chavez: UFW
Sandra Cisneros: Official Website
Roberto Clemente: PBS

Charles Drew: American Red Cross

W. E. B. DuBois: The Man
Duke Ellington: Official Site
Ella Fitzgerald: Official Site

Henry B. Gonzalez: LOC

Matt Henson
Dolores Huerta Foundation

Zora Neale Hurston: Official Site

Quincy Jones: Official Site

Scott Joplin
Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius (PBS Nova)
Thurgood Marshall: America.gov (PDF)

Adriana Ocampo: I Was Wondering
Ellen Ochoa: NASA Bio
Jesse Owens: Official Website
Asa Philip Randolph: APRI
Asa Philip Randolph: AFL-CIO
Jackie Robinson: Official Website
Wilma Rudolph: Olympic.org

Sacagawea: PBS Lewis & Clark
Sequoyah Museum
Sitting Bull: PBS The West
Squanto: Harcourt School Biographies
Tecumseh: Ohio Judicial Center Bio
Jim Thorpe: Official Website
Jim Thorpe Association Bio
Marta Tienda: I Was Wondering
Sojourner Truth Institute: History
Madam C. J. Walker: Official Website
Booker T.  Washington: National Monument Bio
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Official Website (Click About Ida to get Timeline)
Elie Wiesel: Foundation Bio

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Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia, ID Cards, Personal Histories, Mapping the Holocaust, Search at top right for photographs and more
Anne Frank Center
The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students (USHMM)
BBC History World Wars
British Library: Voices of the Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust
History Place
Holocaust Chronicle
Holocaust Cybrary
Holocaust Survivors: Photo Gallery
Jewish Celebrities
Pictures of the Holocaust (About.com)
Simon Wiesenthal Multimedia Learning Center
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Witness to the Holocaust
Voices of the Holocaust Gateway
Go to Databases+ for EBSCO, Gale, & World Book