African American Studies Librarians Interest Group(AASLIG): African American Studies Databases

A guide to all aspects of ProQuest's African American Biographical Database including content, searching, and viewing results.

The African American Home Movie Archive is the only archive solely devoted to the collection, documentation, and study of African American home movies. AAHMA was established in the Spring of 2015 as a home movie registry for African American home movies in various museums, libraries, archives, and private collections throughout the United States.

According to Choice magazine, this Library of Congress virtual exhibition was designed to "give a comprehensive, rich picture of more than 200 years of African American struggle and achievement."

Instructions from the Library of Congress on how to begin Afro-American genealogical research.

An exhibit of photographs taken by John White of Chicago during the 1970s. The site consists of an introduction and three parts.

An online African American digital art library, documenting the visual experience of art and literature through the eyes of various artists and institutions in the United States and abroad.

Reconstruction-era federal records document the black family's struggle for freedom and equality and provide insight into the federal government's policy toward the nearly 4 million African Americans freed at the close of the American Civil War.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

From the success of The Crisis’s annual children’s number emerged The Brownies’ Book, a monthly magazine specifically written for African American children. It was the first sustained effort to create a body of writing that exclusively addressed the needs of African American children. The magazine ran from January 1920 to December 1921 under the editorship of W. E. B. Du Bois, Augustus Granville Dill (who served as business manager) and Jessie Fauset (as literary editor in 1920 and managing editor in 1921).

Information contained on this site is broad and in depth, including topics in African American Religion and Politics , Education and History, Music and Musicians, Literature and Arts, Books N Review, Black Labor; and the following special topics: "The African World" and "Inside the Caribbean".

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about African American newspapers published between 1690-present (2,553 newspapers are available for viewing on this site.).

From 1830 until the 1890s, already free and once captive Black people came together in state and national political meetings called "Colored Conventions."

Words Walking Without Masters American literature is unique in the number of voices and cultures it conveys, giving it the power to transform opinions and challenge stereotypes in both obvious and subtle ways. Christa Smith Anderson explains that in the first half of the 20th century, Zora Neale Hurston’s use of black dialect and folk speech drew both praise and criticism. By the end of the century Toni Morrison and Alice Walker had won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes respectively, for their “voice” driven prose.

The American Mosaic: African American Experience gives voice to the African American experience from its African origins to the present day.

In celebration of Black History Month and African American History as a whole, explore our resources on African American history and culture including famous African Americans From Philadelphia, Poets and Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Nonfiction, Books for Early Readers, The Harlem Renaissance, Tuskegee Airmen, Scientists and Inventors, Politics, Black Colleges and Universities, and Black History Month events throughout Philadelphia area.

Search for thousands of archived African American Newspapers

The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers, commonly referred to simply as the Green Book.

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of cultural revival for African Americans that lasted from the 1920s to the 1940s. Note on Selections: Focus on the societal unit, and moreover, its diversity and mutability.

A hip-hop walking tour: 'Rap Quotes' street art marks specific city locales mentioned on rap tracks

The Hip Hop LibGuide is a scholarly comprehensive online resource about Hip Hop Information Literacy and Resources for Students, Faculty, and Lifelong Learners.

Download free African American literature e-books from the past and present.

Register for a free a account to read and check out 3 articles to house in your online bookcase. Access hundreds of peer-reviewed articles about African American history.

Kalamu ya Salaam s the moderator of neo•griot, an information blog for black writers and supporters of our literature worldwide

A brief comprehensive listing of African American Writers.

This issue focuses on the use of federal records in African American historical research. Sixteen articles by NARA staff and other historians explore the depth and breadth of material in the National Archives relative to African Americans. This issue examines the Civil War and Reconstruction, labor issues, civil rights, pictorial records, and research aids.

The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records

Amazing reads by a great essayist/novelist, all free to read online.

Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool, umbrasearch.org; digitization of African American materials across University of Minnesota collections; and support of students, educators, artists, and the public through residencies, workshops, and events locally and around the country.

A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. The collection includes 124 document projects or archives and 5,100 documents and 180,000 pages of additional full-text sources, written by more than 2,800 primary authors.