Live Oak Public Libraries
Serving Chatham, Effingham and Liberty Counties

Africana Heritage Project Sponsored by the University of South Florida, the Africana Heritage Project provides African- American genealogy and history resources and databases....
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database "has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to...
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Black History Profiles Sponsored by WSAV-TV, this site includes historical black history videos, interviews, news reports and photographs....
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African Heritage in the Low Country "...is entirely dedicated to records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida, home to the rich Gullah/Geechee...
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In Those Days : African-American Life Near the Savannah A website with oral histories from elderly African-Americans in Elbert County, Georgia, and Abbeville County., South Carolina. Sponsored by the National Parks Services....
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Tubmann African-American Museum Visit this museum in Macon, Georgia with exhibits dedicated in honor of Harriet Tubman....
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Africans In the Low Country Details on the history of African-Americans and their arrival and history in the Low Country along the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Presented by the National Parks Service...
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Ayoluwa African Dance Theatre "is a non-profit community based outreach educational cultural group who engages in performing, teaching and practicing authentic traditional Guinea West African folklore."...
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The Acacia Collection "The Acacia Collection in Savannah, Georgia is unlike any museum experience anywhere in the world, because each artifact was made and used by African-Americans...and so there is an important craft, lesson and artisan story behind every piece...
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A Work In Progress From the Savannah Morning News website, a chronological history of African- American politicians in Chatham and surrounding counties. Published 2/17/2007....
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Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum Georgia's best new history museum chronicles the civil rights struggle of Georgia's oldest African-American community from slavery to the present....
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W.W. Law Foundation exists for the sole purpose of supporting the continuation of the work of Savannah civil rights activist, W.W. Law. The Foundation supports the operation of the W.W. Law Research and Preservation Center....
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King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation Researchs, collects, interprets and presents African-American history and culture through exhibits, art, films, lectures, oral history, tours and publication....
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AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general....
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