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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY - REFERENCE BOOKS
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY - DIGITAL ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
AFRICAN AMERICAN MOSAIC
Includes letters, newspaper accounts, documents, photographs, and slave narratives. (Library of Congress)
AFRICANS IN AMERICA
America's journey through slavery, spanning from 1450 through 1865. Includes narrative, images, primary documents, biographies, and commentary. In 4 parts, with teacher's guides.(PBS)
DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used.
FREEDOM ON THE MOVE
Facsimiles and transcriptions of "Runaway ads" placed by slavers searching for fugitives and jailers describing the people they had apprehended.
IN MOTION: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MIGRATION EXPERIENCE
400 years of history. Search or browse by migration, geography or timeline. Rich with source materials including images, texts, and maps. Includes links to web resources and lesson plans for middle and high school in 12 subject areas, such as geography, history, language arts, math and performing arts. (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Gateway to digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PAPERS PROJECT
Information about MLK, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated, including text of major speeches and sermons, biographical information, chronology, and articles.(Stanford University)
MIT BLACK HISTORY
The MIT Black History Project has archived over 3,000 pieces of history related to the black experience at the Institute dating back to the 1870s. Images on this website are subject to copyright laws and may not be duplicated without permission.
REMEMBERING JIM CROW
Read and listen to personal histories of segregation -- black and white Americans remembering life in Jim Crow times. (American RadioWorks)
