Authored by: Stan Nash;
Maintained by:
Tom Glynn
British and American History Selector
glynn@rci.rutgers.edu
with assistance from Lawren Wilkins
October 25, 2005
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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
History- North America:
Internet Resources for Students of African-American History
Reference Sources (documents, bibliographies, etc.)
African American World
Black History (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Civil Rights Legislation - Title 42, Chapter 21 of the U.S. Code
Executive Order 9981
Truman's executive order desegregating the armed forces- chronology, documents, etc.) also move to Individual electronic texts …Twentieth century.
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln
Text, images, maps, chronologies, etc.
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
African American History (American Memory Project)
African Americans in Motion (Schomberg Center, New York Public Library)
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
American Literature: Writing Black
Amistad Trials of 1839-1840
The Church in the Southern Black Community (Documenting the American South)
Digital Schomberg
Electronic Texts Center: African American (University of Virginia)
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
Black Collegian Online: Know your History
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
Includes speeches and documents by Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandella
Desegregation of the Armed Forces Study Collection--Project Whistlestop
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
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.
Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
Negro Baseball League Home Page
North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)
Records of the 105th U.S. Colored Troops
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Making of America)
- 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.
Teaching with Documents: The Amistad Case
The Two Nations of Black America via PBS
W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Afro-American Sources in Virginia
Duke University Special Collections (includes "Slave Voices")
National Civil Rights Museum
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Includes Selected Internet Sources of Information on Africa and the African Diaspora.
Individual Electronic Texts
Eighteenth Century (1700's)
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), affliated with H-NET; Includes academic announcements and book reviews, as well as a list of internet links.
H-Slavery (H-Net)
H-South
NAACP
Nation of Islam
National Urban League
