African-American History Websites

The following site has been prepared by TC3 librarians for students enrolled in History 225: African-American History:

• African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
  "Showcases the incomparable African-American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings..."
• The Atlantic Slave Trade and. Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record - University of Virginia. You can Explore the Collection
• Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007 - "Biographical profiles of former African-American Members of Congress, links to information about current black Members, essays on institutional and national events that shaped successive generations of African Americans in Congress, and images of each individual Member, supplemented by other historical photos."
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
  Searchable database of digitized library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi from the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
• Electronic Text Center: African-American Texts
  University of Virginia site provides full-texts for many African-American writers.
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
  Center at Yale University offers online documents and bibliographies.
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  "Presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps."
• National African American History
  National Park Service site provides information on African-American historic sites. You can also view objects, photographs and writings of African Americans.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  This research branch of the New York Public Library contains digital collections on African-American Women Writers, photography archives and other online exhibitions and collections.
• SSlaves in the Courts, 1740-1860 - "contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States."

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Last update: Wednesday, October 20, 2010