African American Studies Research Guide

From the Library of Congress American Memory site; primary documents in African American history and culture. Includes pamphlets from authors such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells.

From the Library of Congress American Memory site; collection of rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, photos, films, and recordings documenting the African American experience.

Sections include: digital publications, historic African Americans, Martin Luther King, Jr., Slavery, Civil War, civil rights movement, jazz, museums, and teaching resources.

5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers; stories of individual African Americans along with those of African American organizations, events, movements and periods of time that are significant to the African American community.

Digital archives containing text, images, and audio of a wide range of topics and from a wide range of sources; developed by Howard University.

Part of the Yale Law School's Avalon Project; provides access to key documents by Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, WEB Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington, along with the Narrative of Sojourner Truth .

Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.

This University of Virginia site provides access to oral histories provided by over 2300 former slaves to interviewers from the Works Progress Administration between 1936 and 1938.

Of interest to anyone studying the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

Covers fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. Materials range from ancient times to the present, and from international issues to key events in the United States. In addition to documents arranged by time period, Avalon also offers many document collections, including African Americans: Biography, Autobiography, and History; the Cold War; Slavery Statutes and Treaties; Native Americans: Treaties with the United States; the American Constitution: A Documentary Record; and much more.

Click the Scholars tab for links to the Document Library, which contains over 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles, and to an annotated list of online resource. Part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University

Includes numerous primary sources, plus reviewed and
annotated links to more than 1000 sites pertaining to US history.

This site presents 100 milestone documents in US history from 1776-1965, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Primary source media resources related to social activism and activist movements in California in the 1960s and 1970s. The site also provides a chronology of the Black Panther Party; developed by the University of California-Berkely Library in partnership with the Pacifica Foundation and other sources.

New York Public Library. Check out "Source Materials."

Smithsonian Institution

Click the Scholars tab for links to the Document Library, which contains over 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles, and to an annotated list of online resource. Part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University