Below is a compilation of various resources and biographies for several black history related people and events.

American War for Independence Soldiers

James Armistead
Biographical Resources:
WallBuilders
Biography
Black Past
US Army
The Black Phalanx; A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-’65 , pp. 50-51.

The Battle of Bunker Hill
Peter Salem Resources:
PBS
Black Past
National Museum of African American History & Culture
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, pp. 20-21.

Salem Poor Resources:
Black Past
AAREG

Washington Crossing the Delaware
Prince Whipple Resources:
Whipple Website
Black Past
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, pp. 198-199.

Oliver Cromwell Resources:
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, pp. 160-162.

The Battle of Lexington
Prince Estabrook Resources:
WallBuilders
PBS
Historical Marker Database
The Essex Gazette (April 25, 1775), where he’s listed among the wounded.

“Prince” Sisson
Biographical Resources:
WallBuilders
Camp Fire of the Afro-American; or the Colored Man as a Patriot, p. 141.
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, p. 127.

17th & 18th Century People

Crispus Attucks
Biographical Resources:
PBS
Dictionary of American Biography

Wentworth Cheswill
Biographical Resources:
PBS
WallBuilders

Documents:
WallBuilders’ Collection

Anthony Johnson
Biographical Resources:
PBS
Black Past
Encyclopedia Virginia
Journal of Negro History, pp. 233-237

Phillis Wheatley
Biographical Resources:
PBS
Biography
Poetry Foundation
National Women’s History Museum

Poetry:
Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1887 edition)

19th Century People & Events

William Nell
Biographical Resources:
Black Past
African American Registry

His Works:
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812

Robert Smalls
Biographical Resources:
WallBuilders
National Park Service
Biographical Directory of the US Congress
US House of Representatives

Carter Woodson
Biographical Resources:
National Park Service
Biography

His Works:
A Century of Negro Migration
The History of the Negro Church
The Negro in Our History
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830
The Negro Wage Owner
African Heroes and Heroines
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
Negro Makers of History
The Rural Negro

20th Century Events & People

Lynching in America
Excerpt from WallBuilders’ 2003 Black History Issue Newsletter:

Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective. Between 1882 and 1964, 4,743 persons were lynched — 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites.

1964 Civil Rights Bill Resources
National Park Service
National Archives

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Biographical Resources:
Nobel Prize
Louisiana State University

On the Declaration of Independence:

If our nation had done nothing more in its whole history than to create just two documents, its contribution to civilization would be imperishable. The first of these documents is the Declaration of Independence and the other is that which we are here to honor tonight, the Emancipation Proclamation. All tyrants, past, present and future, are powerless to bury the truths in these declarations, no matter how extensive their legions, how vast their power and how malignant their evil. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed to a world, organized politically and spiritually around the concept of the inequality of man, that the dignity of human personality was inherent in man as a living being. The Emancipation Proclamation was the offspring of the Declaration of Independence. It was a constructive use of the force of law to uproot a social order which sought to separate liberty from a segment of humanity.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Pastors

Rev. Richard Allen
Biographical Resources:
PBS
Black Past
Biography
The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen…Written by Himself and Published by His Request (Philadelphia: 1880)

Rev. Frederick Douglass
Biographical Resources:
White House Historical Association
National Park Service
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself (Boston: 1847)

Rev. Henry Highland Garnet
Biographical Resources:
Black Past
PBS

Sermon at the Capitol:
Available in its entirety on Google Books.

Rev. Lemuel Haynes
Biographical Resources:
Black Past
PBS
Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes (New York: 1837)
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, pp. 123-124.

Rev. Harry Hoosier
Biographical Resources:
WallBuilders
Indiana Public Radio

Rev. Absalom Jones
Biographical Resources:
Black Past
PBS

Books & Other Resources

African American Perspectives
Freedmen’s Bureau Online
Harper’s Weekly
Neglected Voices
Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812
The Black Phalanx; A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-’65
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

WallBuilders Black History Products

First Black Legislators Print
Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White
Other Products