Black Thought and Culture

Black Thought and Culture offers the full text of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writing by leading figures in African American life and culture, including Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson and hundreds of others. Types of material include articles and essays, monographs, speeches, interviews, pamphlets and correspondence. Approximately twenty percent is previously unpublished, including transcripts from the Columbia University Oral History Project. Also available online for the first time is the complete run of the Black Panther newspaper, 1966 through 1980.

Certain documents go as far back as the early eighteenth century, but most are from the twentieth century. There is a wide selection of abolitionists' writings from the nineteenth century.

Books (including speeches, correspondence, etc.), journals and magazines, newspapers, oral history transcripts, archival material.

Full text.

Approximately eighty percent of the material was previously published in books or periodicals.

Cinema, Film and Television; General Arts and Humanities; History: North America; Music; Theater and Dance; Women's and Gender Studies; Sociology; Urban Studies