THIST 441 Black Freedom Movement in Perspective: Starting Points
Sources for background information
- Black Past
BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. These materials include an online encyclopedia of over 4,000 entries, the complete transcript of more than 300 speeches by African Americans, other people of African ancestry, and those concerned about race, given between 1789 and 2016, over 140 full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and six gateway pages with links to digital archive collections, African and African American museums and research centers, genealogical research websites, and more than 200 other website resources on African American and global African history.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the present
Available online in Oxford African American Studies Center .
Tacoma Reference Stacks
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The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 20,000 articles by top scholars in the field
Over 2,500 images, more than 700 primary sources with specially written commentaries, and nearly 200 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content
African American History
- Black Women in AmericaAvailable online and in print
UW Tacoma Library Reference
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Coverage of the achievements and contributions of African American women. - Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights : from Emancipation to the Twenty-first CenturyUW Tacoma Library Reference
E185.61 .E54 2003 v. 1-2 - Jim Crow EncyclopediaAvailable online and in print
UW Tacoma Library Reference
E185.61 .J53 2008 v. 1-2
Covers the complex system of legal segregation that existed from the 1880s to the 1960s. - Oxford African American Studies CenterMajor encyclopedic collection of African American history resources including African American National Biography & Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 - present.