Reference Information

National Sites:

Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society

Altria African American Directory

Black Career Women (Black Women Career Issues)

Blacks in Government (Advocacy professional development)

Black Leadership Forum, Inc.
(Non-partisan confederate of national civil rights and service organizations)

Children's Defense Fund

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
(Economic Dev. Education, Job training)

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
(Explore & formulate solutions on domestic and foreign policies)

Consortium for Graduate Study in Managementnull (Graduate fellowship program)

Health Care: Office of Minority Health

International Association of Black Professional firefighters

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Public Policy)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc.

NAACP (Civil Rights, Education)

National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc. (black social work issues)

National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women's Club, Inc. (Community based social service organization)

National Baptist Convention (7.5 million memberships w/ 30,000 churches)

National Black Caucus of State Legislators (Black State Legislators)

National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (Black businesses)

National Black Child Development Institute

National Black Police Association (Black Police Org.)

National Caucus and Center of Black Aged. Inc. (Black Aging)

National Coalition of 100 Black Women (Black Women Advocates)

National Congress of Black Women
(Empowerment of African-Americans in the political process)

National Directory of African-American Organizations

National Forum for Black Public Administrators (Advancement of Black Public Administrators)

National Urban League


Other Sites

http://www.blackenterprise.com/ (Business news, Investing, Careers)

http://www.bet.com/ (Black Entertainment)

http://miradormagazine.com/ (Elder content with web links)

http://thegrio.com/ (on-line Black News)

http://www.blackiowa.org (African American Museum of Iowa)

http://www.fortdesmoines.org (Fort Des Moines Museum and Education Center