Women

Resources in this category:

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

This comprehensive directory of African resources covers many topics including: Current Events/News (including African newspapers), Art, Culture, Education, History, Maps, Music, Politics, Religion, Travel, and more. Country information is also included, as is regional information for Central, East, Southern and West Africa, as well as the Indian Ocean Islands and the Horn of Africa. The site also includes a search function.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader.

Index of African-American Women Scientists
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/women.html

The Index of African American Scientists is a sub-collection of "The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences," resource. The index is broken down into the different science research areas. Typically, each profile includes a photo, bibliographic information, and links to other web sources.