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19th Century Documents Project
"When completed this collection will include accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity."
- Furman University

African-American Archaeology Newsletter

Classic African American Literature
A collection of writings

The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
"This digital collection illuminates specific moments in the history of Ohio's African-Americans and provides an overview of their experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them...These sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets."
- Ohio Historical Society / American Memory, Library of Congress

African American Odyssey
"...showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. The preview is not only a highlight of what is on view in this major black history exhibition, but also a glimpse into the Library's vast African American collectionBoth include a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

African American Perspectives
Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
"The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

"African Americans and the Age of Information"
"The above essay is a chapter in his book Western Technology and the African American Predicament (forthcoming)."
By Bruce Cosby, Ph.D., Social Science Dept., Erie Community College

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
A Selection of Published Works
"...a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920."
New York Public Library Digital Library Collections

African Americans and National Identities in Central America (English and Spanish)
NEH Collaborative Research- "A Color for the Cosmic Race"
"An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually, the history of people of African descent in Central America."
By Rina C·ceres, Mauricio MelÈndez, and Lowell Gudmundson supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Program, Mount Holyoke College, and the Center for Central American Historical Research at the Universidad de Costa Rica.

The Afro American Newspaper
Online version of the weekly newspaper from Baltimore.

  • History
    Sections include: Black Resistance...Slavery in the U.S. ; The Tuskegee Airmen ; Jackie Robinson ; The Black Panther Party ; Black or White ; The Million Man March ; The Scottsboro Boys ; This is Our War.
    • This Is Our War
      "A compilation of articles written by AFRO correspondents while following Black American troops during World War II. Includes a short history about each of the correspondents with pictures and cartoons."

Afro-American Sources in Virginia
A Guide to Manuscripts
An electronic edition of the impressive print version
"This guide is a joint collaboration between Michael Plunkett, The University Press of Virginia, and the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
Edited by Michael Plunkett

[AIDS]Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of HIV/AIDS -- 33 States, 2001-2005
"During 2001--2004, blacks* accounted for 51% of newly diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) infections in the United States."
CDC - MMWR Weekly Report, March 9, 2007

Ann Arbor: A Women's Town, 1900-1975
"The city of Ann Arbor has a very colorful history, and some of the best storytellers in Ann Arbor are the African American women interviewed by Lola Jones and her daughter Carole Gibson. Their organization, called Another Ann Arbor, Inc., produced two documentary films from the interviews. 'Ann Arbor: A Woman's Town' covers the first half of the twentieth century. The second film, 'A Change Was in the Air' chronicles the tumultuous Civil Rights Era in Ann Arbor, from the 1950s-1975...This web site is a collection of clips from the two documentaries. In these clips, you'll meet several women who not only tell the story of Ann Arbor, but were actually part of the history."
- CHICO, University of Michigan School of Information

Authors on the Web - African-American Author Roundtable
"African-American writing is more than a genre for these twenty-two writers and illustrators...Here they speak out on their experiences as published authors, share advice with aspiring writers, and relate how being African-American impacts their work."

The Avalon Project : African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History
Includes texts from Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.
- The Lilliam Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School

Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
"This electronic exhibit focuses on the depictions of slaves in Confederate currency. It is important to remember that these images were created by those who institutionalized and worked to preserve slavery, and they do not necessarily portray the slaves as they viewed themselves and their condition...Images of slavery, however, were not the only illustrations on such documents: Vignettes featuring modes of transportation, mythical characters, historical figures of the American Revolution, and romantic portrayals of white women and children also decorated paper money issued in the Confederacy. These scenes offer a new perspective on the Civil War era South."
A Project of the United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University

The Birmingham News - Special Report

  • Unseen. Unforgotten.
    "These Birmingham News photographs of the civil rights movement have not been seen by the public. Until now."

Booker T. Washington Papers Online
"...is a completely free and searchable web site designed to provide researchers worldwide with full access to the thousands of pages comprising this 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press.
 The History Cooperative

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
"...contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Brown University Library Digital Collections

  • African American Sheet Music 1820-1920
    "This collection consists of over 1400 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1820 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."

Brown v. Board of Education - See our separate Brown v. Board of Education page.

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
"...is a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society providing cancer care professionals with up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention."

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

  • Documenting History: Teenie Harris Archive
    "Numbering upwards of 80,000 images, this archive represents the largest single collection of photographic images of any Black community in the United States-or the world for that matter."

Center for Demographics and Ecology
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
"The 'Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive' project will result in the creation of an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi...For the first phase of the project, USM Libraries is cooperating with the USM Center for Oral History to offer 125 oral history transcripts on the civil rights movement, such as those by civil rights leaders Charles Cobb, Charles Evers, Aaron Henry, and Hollis Watkins. This collection also includes oral histories of race-baiting governor Ross Barnett, national White Citizens Council leader William J. Simmons, and State Sovereignty head Erle Johnston."
McCain Library & Archives, University of Southern Mississippi

The Church in the Southern Black Community - (dead link)
"This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contradictions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival."
American Memory, Library of Congress / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dance in America: Free to Dance
"Explore the "Free To Dance" Web companion, which offers information about the series, a dance timeline, essays on dance history and the African-American contribution to modern dance, biographies of notable dance personalities, links to relevant dance resources online, and more."
- PBS Online - Great Performances (June 2000)

Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET) - Digital Projects
"The DALNET libraries serve many different user groups. Their collections include instructional materials, rich cultural heritage resources and collections of unique one-of-a-kind objects. Each member library plans the production, processing and presentation of digital contents from several perspectives."

  • University of Detroit Mercy - Black Abolitionist Archive
    "The Black Abolitionist Archive is a collection of documents created by antebellum blacks. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, these important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement."

Detroit News - The 1943 Detroit Race Riots
"The 36 hours of rioting claimed 34 lives, 25 of them black. More than 1,800 were arrested for looting and other incidents, the vast majority black."

The Dred Scott Case
"Arguments about slavery in the print and in public debate had a direct impact on the Scotts and the people who surrounded them. The records contained in this exhibit document the Scotts' early struggle to gain their freedom through litigation and are the only extant record of this significant case as it was heard in the St. Louis Circuit Court ... The 85 documents in the Dred Scott collection are presented here as arranged by the Missouri State Archives..."
Washington University Libraries, St. Louis

Documenting the American South
A Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920.
"...an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research...Currently, DAS includes five digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, and materials related to the church in the black community."

The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
"...examines five centuries of black heritage through five distinct time periods, from the slave revolts of early America through the successes of the Civil Rights Movement...features 600 informative articles and is beautifully illustrated with historical film clips and audio recordings, as well as hundreds of photographs and other images. The Related Internet Links and Bibliography sections provide excellent source material and areas for further study, as does the Study Guide for Students, which is organized around six classroom activities, each with their own teacher recommendations, technical tips, and scholastic bibliographies."

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1740-1920
 "This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. An award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the digitization of 101 titles published during and after the Civil War. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supplemented these titles with another forty first-person narratives, many published before 1740."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Flashback: Black History Month
Includes articles by Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Ralph McGill
Atlantic Monthly collection of past articles. Subscription required.

The Fredrick Douglas Papers at the Library of Congress
"...presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Freedom's Journal
The first African-American  owned and operated newspaper in the U.S., published 1827-1829 from New York City.
"...provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices. The Journal also published biographies of prominent African-Americans and listings of births, deaths, and marriages in the African-American New York community. Freedom's Journal circulated in 11 states, the District of Columbia, Haiti, Europe, and Canada...All 103 issues of the Freedom's Journal have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format"
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin

The FRONTal View
An Electronic Journal of African Centered Thought

Gang Research.Net
"...is a website dedicated to providing quality research on gangs to students, academics, public officials, the media, and the general public. While most 'gang' websites either present the views of law enforcement or give unverified or questionable information, Gang research.net seeks to dispel stereotypes and present research, original documents, and helpful links."
By John Hagedorn, Dept. of Criminal Justice, University of Illinois-Chicago

  • The Negro in Chicago
    A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot
    By The Chicago Commission on Race Relations, 1919

Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina
"This guide contains entries of varying length and detail contributed by North Carolina repositories with original research materials documenting African Americans. Entries are arranged geographically by city and repository. Each entry gives the repository's address, telephone number (and fax, if available), hours of operation, and services offered. In several cases, INTERNET addresses are provided as well."
Edited by Timothy D. Pyatt, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Historical Text Archive - African American

HUArchivesNet (ejournal)
"...creates new ways to access one of the finest repositories of African and African American resources..."
Published quarterly by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.

[Katrina] The Chronicle of Higher Education

King Report
United States Department of Justice Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Released June 9, 2000

The Last Wave from Port Chicago
"The result of a 20 year investigation into the July 17, 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine. This web-based book chronicles the total history of the explosion and connections with Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project."
By Peter Vogel
[The explosion accounted for 15% of all African-American causalities in World War II.]

Library of Congress - American Memory

Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
"...provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves."

The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
"...present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997."

Los Angeles--A City in Stress - (dead link)
"Growing out of Los Angeles--A City in Stress, this project involves bringing up on the Web a series of full text documents dealing with the manifold problems of Los Angeles in the 1990's with emphasis on the civil disturbances of April and May 1992."
- University of Southern California Libraries

  • Violence in the City: An End or a Beginning? - (dead link)
    A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, December 2, 1965
    (The McCone Report)
    "The digitization of this document is being undertaken as part of an on-going project to digitize many documents dealing with Los Angeles in the 1990's."

Malcolm X Conference
"Audio proceedings of the conference Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and Legacy of Struggle May 1990, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City."

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
"This site contains secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life."

National Academy Press (free online versions)


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National Archives and Records Administration

National Geographic Online

  • African-American Cowboy Photo Gallery
    "Many people are unaware about how black cowboys were highly instrumental in settling the West. Get roped in at..."
  • Blues Highway Photo Gallery
    "Travel the Blues 'Highway' that millions of blacks traversed as they migrated from the South to Chicago through the images of photographer William Albert Allard. See the places and people that keep the blues alive..."
  • Touchstone: A Visit to the Civil Rights Memorial
    "Take five minutes to travel with Peggy Steele Clay to the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Watch the memories unfold..."
  • The Underground Railroad
    "Retrace the perilous route taken by slaves and learn about the abolitionists, both white and black, that risked their safety in order to help liberate fleeing slaves."

National Science Federation

New Jersey State Library - CyberDesk

The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History
"...published exclusively on the world wide web with two primary goals. † First, in association with the Afro-American Religious History group of the American Academy of Religion, it will provide information on events, new publications, research collections, and other resources in the field of African-American religious history.†† Second,† we will present peer-reviewed articles based on historical research that explore the religious cultures of people of African descent in the United States. While our interest is primarily in North America, we will on occasion publish work from other disciplines and/or that deals in a comparative way with other areas of the African diaspora, as well as with regions in Africa.† "

"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (1938-1943)
"consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work between September 1938 and 1941. These recording projects were supported by the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center). Song lists made by the collectors, correspondence with the Archive about the trips, and a special issue of the Fort Valley State College student newsletter, The Peachite: Festival Number, are also included. One interesting feature of this collection is the topical rewording of several standard gospel songs to address the wartime concerns of the performers."
- American Memory Project, Library of Congress

[O.J. Verdict] PBS - Frontline - The O.J. Verdict
Web companion to the October 2005 TV broadcast. Watch entire program online.
Sections include: Introduction ; Interviews ; Observations & Analysis ; "Whites and Blacks Live in Two Different Worlds..." ; Readings & Links ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS - American Experience - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Website companion to the TV broadcast.
"...offers insights into topics in American history including the Civil War, slavery, abolition, race relations, definitions of freedom and citizenship, civil rights, black suffrage and election to political office, impeachment, regional political differences, nationbuilding after war, the cotton economy, sharecropping, federal government intervention in the states, and more."
Sections include: Watch the Program ; 40 Acres and a Mule ; Plantations in Ruins ; Black Legislators ; Northerners in the South ; Slave to Sharecropper ; In God We Trust ; White Men Unite ; State by State ; Teacher's Guide ; 1870 Map ; Black Citizens.

PBS NOVA - Forgotten Genius
Companion website to the February 2007 TV broadcast. Watch episode online. Includes Teacher's Guide and Library Resource Kit.
"Against all odds, African-American chemist Percy Julian became one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century...is a fascinating and largely unknown story of scientific triumph and racial inequality. It covers the extraordinary life journey of Percy Julian, one of the great chemists of the 20th century."

PBS - Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
An online companion to the weekly television news program.

  • African-American Jews
    Watch or read the transcript of the January 26, 2007 episode. Includes related reading and links.

PBS - The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
"A landmark four-part series , THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement."
Episodes: Promises Betrayed (1745-1896) ; Fighting Back (1896-1917) ; Don't Shout Too Soon (1918-1940) ; Terror and Triumph (1940-1954).Sections include: A Century of Segregation ; Jim Crow Stories ; A National Struggle ; Interactive Maps ; Tools & Activities ; For Teachers ; Resources.

Pew Internet & American Life Project
"The Project creates original research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, the work place, and civic/political life. The Pew Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internetís growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial."

Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans During World War 1
"The photographs included in this project are from Record Group 165, Records of the War Department.

Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
"Shocking photos brought the civil-rights struggle to all America."

The Rap Dictionary
By Patrick Atoon

Remembering Jim Crow
By Stephen Smith, Kate Ellis, and Sasha Asianian
"For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as American citizens. Until well into the 1960s, segregation was legal. The system was called Jim Crow. In this documentary, Americansóblack and whiteóremember life in the Jim Crow times."
Presented by American RadioWorks, November 2001.

The Shifting Pattern of Black Migration From and Into the Nonmetropolitan South, 1965-95 (December 2001)
By Glenn Fuguitt, John Fulton, and Calvin Beale
- USDA report.

The Skanner
An on-line African American Newspaper published in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA.

Slavery Era Insurance Registry
"[I]nsurance policies from the slavery era have been discovered in the archives of several insurance companies, documenting insurance coverage for slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves, issued by a predecessor insurance firm. These documents provide the first evidence of ill-gotten profits from slavery, which profits in part capitalized insurers whose successors remain in existence today." SB2199 Sec. 1(a).
Gov. Davis signed the bill into law in September 2000.
"...links to the Departmentís report to the California Legislature describing the information received from insurers in response to this statute, including the database of slave and slaveholder names and identifying information."
- California Dept. of Insurance

Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
"This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica."
- Data and Program Library Service (DPLS), University of Wisconsin

Social Activism Sound Recording Project - The Black Panther Party
Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley - Media Resource Center
A Black Panther chronology with bibliography and selected links to online resources.

Teaching the Journal of American History (JAH)

Timelines - Toward Racial Equality
 From Black History at Harpweek.com

  • Slavery Timeline
    "An annotated list of the major events concerning the enslavement of black Africans in British America and the United States. The period spans from the arrival of the first Africans in 1619 to the failed raid on Harperís Ferry in 1859."
  • Civil War Timeline
    "An annotated list of the major events affecting the lives of black Americans, especially their emancipation and military service. The era begins with the presidential election of 1740 and extends to the adoption of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in December 1745."
  • Reconstruction Timeline
    "An annotated list of the major events related to the Reconstruction of the Union, focusing on the struggle for racial equality. It begins with the announcement of President Lincolnís plan for reconstruction in December 1743 and finishes with the formal end of Reconstruction in 1877."

Tulsa Race Riot - 1921
 The Nation

  • Tulsa's Shame (March 18, 2002)
    By Adrian Brune
  • Tulsa, 1921
    Feature article from the June 15, 1921 issue regarding the Tulsa race riot of 1921 with recent introduction.

Oklahoma State Historical Society

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Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
A Multi-Media Archive
Use this site in three different "modes" :
Browse Mode "provides access to all the primary material in the archive -- texts, images, songs, 3-D objects, film clips, &c. -- one at a time."
Search Mode "allows you to search all the primary material at once. You can either use or cut across the site's organizational categories."
Interpret Mode "includes an interactive timeline, virtual exhibits designed to suggest ways of exploring and understanding the primary material, as well as lesson plans for teachers and student projects."
Directed by Stephen Railton, Dept. of English, University of Virginia

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

  • Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election (June 8, 2001)
    "Despite the closeness of the election, it was widespread voter disenfranchisement, not the dead-heat contest, that was the extraordinary feature in the Florida election. The disenfranchisement was not isolated or episodic ... State officials failed to fulfill their duties in a manner that would prevent this disenfranchisement."

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Government Information: Affirmative Action and Civil Rights - (dead link)
University Libraries Government Publications, University of Colorado, Boulder
Maintained by Margaret M. Jobe

University of Maryland - Thurgood Marshall Law Library

University of Virginia Library - Special Collections

Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington, 1901.
Online version by Bartleby.com

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers - (dead link)
Includes: Biographical Essay ; Chronology ; Naming of the Library ; Guide to the Papers.
Special Collections and Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Womanist Theory and Research On-Line
"...a biannual, peer-edited, interdisciplinary, intercultural, international journal on women of color." 

Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
"...presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994. Paterson is considered to be the cradle of the Industrial Revolution in America...The online presentation also includes interpretive essays exploring such topics as work in the African-American community, a distinctive food tradition (the Hot Texas Wiener), the ethnography of a single work place (Watson Machine International), business life along a single street in Paterson (21st Avenue), and narratives told by retired workers."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries - Online Exhibits

Virginia Runaways Project
"The Virginia Runaways Project is a digital database of runaway and captured slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. When a slave ran away, slave owners often placed remarkably detailed advertisements for their return. Sheriffs and other county officials also often advertised the capture of runaways or suspected runaways. This project offers full transcripts and images of all runaway and captured ads placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790."
By Thomas Costa, History Department, University of Virginia's College at Wise

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
These photos were recently published in a book accompanied by a number of essays and then placed on display at the New York Historical Society.

Academic Discussion Lists
African-American History Forum

H-Afro-Am Discussion Network
"...The main mission of H-Afro-Am is to provide an exchange of information for professionals, faculty and advanced students, in the field of African American Studies (also called Afrocentricity, Africology, Africana Studies, Afro-American Studies, Black Studies, and Pan-African Studies)."







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