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United States History: African American History
All Centuries
- African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920Sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets that highlight this time period for African Americans in Ohio.
- African American Newspapers of the 19th century This link opens in a new window
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Select 19th century African American newspapers.
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907Eclectic review of African-American history and culture with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
- American Black JournalThis site includes episodes of the original programming (first title Colored People's Time) on Detroit Public Television in 1968.
- Black Archives of Mid-AmericaDocuments the social, economic, political and cultural histories of persons of African American descent in the central United States, particularly the Kansas City, Missouri region.
- Black Panther Party Sound Recording ProjectPrimary source recordings of speeches and events of the Black Panther Party in California in the 1960's and 1970's.
- Blues, Black Vaudeville and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930sPrimary sources from the Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia.
- Chicago DefenderAfrican American Newspaper (also includes Daily Defender).
- Crisis1910-2009 of this newsletter/magazine of the NAACP.
- Digital HarlemLegal records, newspapers, and other archival sources that document everyday life in Harlem 1915-1930.
- Digital SchomburgDigital resources from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center covering the history and culture of African peoples in the diaspora.
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive ProjectPhotograph's by Pittsburgh Courier photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris documenting everyday life for African Americans from the 1930s to the 1970s.
- FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading RoomFull-text documents from the FBI files on people like Thurgood Marshall, Medger Evers, Martin Luther King, and more.
- Frederick Douglass PapersContains approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images) relating to Douglass' life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant.
- Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight papersCorrespondence, writings, clippings, etc. of the two artists from the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
- Malcolm X ProjectProject of Columbia University documenting the life and contributions of Malcolm X.
- Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1895-1992Microfilm collection (A9702) held in Suzzallo Library
- Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992Microfilm collection (A9701) held in Suzzallo Library.
Finding guide available at UW Tacoma Library Reference
E185.86 .B64 1994 - Ten O'Clock NewsWGBH video clips from 1974 to 1991 focusing on news stories relating to Boston's African American community.
- The Church in the Southern Black CommunityBiographies, church documents, sermons, encyclopedias and more from the digital project Documenting the American South.
Civil Rights
- Behind the VeilOral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the south.
- Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century This link opens in a new window
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Collections related to the civil rights movement including records of federal agencies, organizations, and individuals. (ProQuest History Vault)