ProQuest One Black Studies

ProQuest One: Black Studies brings together primary and secondary sources, leading historical black newspapers, archival documents, government materials, video, writings by major American black intellectuals and leaders, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies. In addition to searching and browsing, it offers the ability to navigate via a timeline of major events and profiles of people and organizations. For each person, organization, and event, it offers a list of relevant primary sources, articles, videos, search terms, and more. The primary focus of the collection is the experience of black people in the United States, but it also includes some materials with a more global focus. Major elements of the collection include:

• NAACP Papers & records of civil rights organizations
• Black Literature Index
• Black Studies Periodicals
• Historical Black Newspapers
• Personal papers of key civil rights figures, including Robert F. Williams, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arthur Mitchell, A. Philip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin.
• U.S. Federal Government Records, including files from the Department of Justice, FBI, and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
• Archival collections dating from the 18th - 19th centuries, including Black Abolitionist Papers, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations, Slave Trade Records, Reconstruction Military
  Government Records, and Freedman’s Savings Bank Records.
• Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience essays

ProQuest One: Black Studies can also be cross-searched as part of ProQuest Digital Collections.