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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
History - American and British:
Internet Resources for Students of
African-American History and Culture
Reference Sources (documents, bibliographies, etc.)
- - Afro-American Historical Documents
- - from Mississippi State
- - Civil Rights Legislation - Title 42, Chapter 21 of the U.S. Code
- - Executive Order 9981, July 26, 1948, Harry S. Truman "establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the Armed Services" (desegregation of the Army)
- - Slavery Bibliography, Part I
- - Parts I and II are from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The collection is on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.
- - Slavery Bibliography, Part II
- - African American Theses and Dissertations
- - 425 theses and dissertations on African American topics completed at the University of California, Berkeley 1907-1990
Access to Text Collections and other Special Resources
- - Afro American Almanac
- - Documents, Biographies, Multimedia, Folk Tales, Links to other sites etc.
- - The African-American Journey from PBS
- - "African-American arts, culture, current events, and history." A virtual index, with annotations to PBS sites and docuemnts, realted to African-American Culture and History. Also includes many educational aids.
- - African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
- - From the Library of Congress's American Memory project (from slavery thru the 20th century
- - African-American Women
- - The African-American Mosaic
- - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Includes information about colonization of free blacks in Africa, abolitionism, ante-bellum migration patterns, and the WPA.
- - Africans in America--PBS
- - African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- - Amistad Case: Documents and Teaching Activities Available Online from the National Archives
- - Amistad Case from Cornell University
- - Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Slavery in Antebellum Maritime America
- - Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy
- - Dr. Gwendolyn Hall designed and created a database into which she recorded and calculated
information regarding African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family
relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners, and slave testimonials and
emancipations. The user-friendly database is searchable by name, gender, racial designation, and plantation or origin
- - The Black Collegian Online--Black History Articles
- - Black History Project from The Christian Science Monitor.
- - Multi-media material on Afro-American history from the CSM's archives, links on the WEB, and other sources.
- - Black History and Literature
- - Includes works by Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, and Malcom X
- - Black History
- - Includes speeches and documents by Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandella
- - The Two Nations of Black America via PBS
- - The Britannica Guide to Black History
- - Desegregation of the Armed Forces Study Collection--Project Whistlestop
- - Freedmen and Southern Society Project
- - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- - The collection is on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.
- - The Historical Text Archive - Mississippi State Univ.
- - Gateway to a long list of excellent sites dealing with Afro-American Cultureas well as History.
- - Items from Special Collections at the UVa Library
- - Prepared by the Electronic Text Center.
- - Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Dave Pilgrim, Ferris State University)
- - Promotes tolerance by promoting an awareness of the caricature of African-Americans in the past. Links to many stereotypic images in American popular culture.
- - Malcom X Links
- - Martin Luther King Papers Project (Stanford)
- - Negro Baseball League Home Page
- - Records of the 105th U.S. Colored Troops
- - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- - Includes Selected Internet Sources of Information on Africa and the African Diaspora.
- - Slavery and the Courts Collection on American Memory
- - Drawn from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections
Division of the Library of Congress, these materials include an assortment of trials and cases,
reports, arguments, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, and other works of
historical importance concerning slaves in free jurisdictions, fugitive slaves, slave revolts,
the African slave trade, and abolitionists in the North and South.
- - Universal Black History Pages
- - Writing Black
- - Literature and History written by and on African Americans
- - W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
Connections to Archival Sites
- - Afro-American Sources in Virginia
- - Duke University Special Collections (includes "Slave Voices")
Links to Afro-American Periodicals
- - Black Collegian Online
- - The Black World Today
- - Callaloo
- - Journal of African American Arts and Literature,1995+ USE RESTRICTED TO MUSE subscribers.
- - Gravity (formerly known as Meanderings): Journal of Politics, Art and Culture
Individual Electronic Texts
Eighteenth Century (1700's)
- - Excerpts from Slave Narratives
- - Over 40 narratives primarily from slaves dating from 1682 to the end of the 19th Century. Topics cover their capture as slaves, the passage across the Atlantic, conditions of slavery, and Emancipation.
- - George Wallis
- - Recommending the liberation of Negro slaves in America. From the United States chronicle, Thursday, February 19, 1784.
- - A Narrative of...James Albert Ukasaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince
- - (1774)
- - Observations on the Slaves and the Indentured Servants ... Army ... Navy
- - (1777)
- - Peter Bestes et. al.: Letter from several slaves...
- - Boston, April 20, 1773
- - Phillis Wheatley
- - An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of ... the Reverend ... Dr. Samuel Cooper (1784?)
- - Slavery Cases heard in the New Jersey Supreme Court
- - (1790s)
- - The Sorrows of Yamba or the Negro Woman's Lamentation
- - (anon. poem, 1795)
Nineteenth Century (1800's)
- - Booker T. Washington
- - The Case of the Negro (Atlantic Monthly 1899)
- - Booker T. Washington
- - Signs of Progress Among the Negroes
- - Booker T. Washington
- - Tuskegee; A Retrospect and Prospect (North American Review 1906)
- - Booker T. Washington
- - The Religious Life of the Negro (North American Review 1905)
- - J. Taylor Wood
- - The Capture of a Slaver (Atlantic Monthly 1900)
- - Booker T. Washington
- - The Awakening of the Negro (Atlantic Monthly 1896)
- - Booker T. Washington
- - Up From Slavery (1901)
- - Jerome Dowd
- - Paths of Hope for the Negro (Century Magazine 1900)
- - A Master Sold by a Slave
- - (McClure's 1897)
- - Slave Account Entries
- - Watson Family 1858-1860.
- - W.E.B. Du Bois
- - Strivings of the Negro People (Atlantic Monthly 1897)
- - W.E.B. Du Bois
- - A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South (Atlantic Monthly 1899)
- - W.E.B. Du Bois
- - The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
- - W.E.B. Du Bois
- - The Freedmen's Bureau (Atlantic Monthly 1901)
- - W.E.B. Du Bois
- - The Training of Black Men (Atlantic Monthly 1902)
Twentieth Century (1900's)
- - Quincy Ewing
- - The Heart of the Race Problem (Atlantic Monthly, 1909)
- - Robert C. Weaver: The Negro as an American (1963)
- - WPA Federal Writers Folklore Project
- - From the Library of Congress (includes biographical information on thousands of people interviewed during the 1930s)
Associations, Organizations, and Online Discussion Groups (Listservs)
- - Black Caucus of the American Library Association
- - H-Afro-Am
- - African American studies listserv (discussion group), sffliated with H-NET; Includes academic announcements and book reviews, as well as a list of internet links.
- - NAACP
- - Nation of Islam
- - National Urban League
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