Do You Know This American History?

Black history month is here again, just as the Public Broadcasting System finishes airing a 10-hour documentary film by Ken Burns about Jazz. The program Website offers a Jazz in Time section showing how the music with African roots developed against the backdrop of American history.

Also on PBS this month, "Goin' to Chicago" examines the mass migration of black workers from the rural South to the urban centers of the North and West. This quest for work during the early part of the 20th century is considered "the largest internal migration in United States history."

Get an intimate look at jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong's life and music at Satchmo.net. You can take a virtual tour of Armstrong's former New York residence -- now a museum. Listen to Armstrong hit some impossibly high notes while practicing "Over the Rainbow" in a hotel room tape from the 1950s.

Hear about slavery from those who lived it in the Slave Narratives at Ancestry.com. The database contains interviews collected in the 1930s with more than 3,500 former slaves.

Those interested in studying The African American Journey from slavery to the civil rights era of the 1960s and beyond will find an overview at World Book. Besides chronicling cultural events, this site includes biographies of pivotal civil rights figures, such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has long been a prime catalyst in securing equal rights for all Americans. The NAACP Web site details its history and continuing mission to eliminate racial prejudice.

Now that you've had some time to review Black History online, take The Internet African American History Challenge. There are interactive quizzes at three different levels.

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