African Americans
Background and Context -- HOLLIS Subject Terms -- Periodical Articles -- Document Collections
Oxford African American studies center: the online authority on the African American experience contains reference articles and primary sources, including images and maps. (Harvard login)
African American Almanac: Day-by-day Black History, ed. by Leon T. Ross and Kenneth A. Mimms, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text
Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century, ed. by Paul Finkelman. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. 5 v.
Print -- Online
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century, ed. by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. 2nd ed. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003. 2 v.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text
Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present, ed. by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. New York : Greenwood Press, 1992, 658 p.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text
- African American physicians
- African American women physicians
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- History -- 1964-
- Busing for school integration
- Civil rights movements -- United States
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
- Protest movements -- United States
- United States -- Race relations
For Newspapers, see the Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes
Films
Black Studies in Video documentaries, interviews, and archival footage surveying the black experience.
Umbra Search is a search engine for African American digitized materials in numerous repositories
BlackPast Digital Archives offers a list of online collections for African American History
HistoryMakers is an African American oral video history archive
Black Women's Suffrage Collection (Digital Public Library of America)
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
The African-American Migration Experience covers the full span of American history
Mapping Prejudice: Visualizing the hidden histories of race and privilege in the urban landscape. About
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, New York Public Library- Collects, preserves, and makes available for research purposes rare, unique, and primary materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent throughout the world, with a concentration on the Americas and the Caribbean.
- Digital Collections- browse or search by keyword
- Manuscripts listed by subject to see if available online, search Digital Collections by keyword or click on the name and look under "Digital Assets" in the catalog record (it's in the vertical menu on the left side of the page).
Research Guide for Primary Source Research on Civil Rights lists many digital collections on the Civil Rights era.