Bibliographies
An African American Bibliography: Education
Selected Sources from the Collections of the New York State Library
An African American Bibliography: History
Selected Sources from the Collections of the New York State Library
An African American Bibliography: Science, Medicine and Allied Fields
Selected Sources from the Collections of the New York State Library
An African American Bibliography: The Arts
Selected Sources from the Collections of the New York State Library
African-American Women. A Selected Bibliography of Lousiana State University Resources
African Americans and the Internet. A Bibliography.
(Amistad Research Center, Tulane University)
African Americans in U.S. Military History -- A Bibliography
Compiled by K.G. Wilkins (Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.)
African Missouri
Some excellent documentary and photographic resources.
Bibliographies of Microforms Relating to African Americans
(Look for it in newstuff/diversity)
A Bibliography of the Amistad Case and The American Missionary Association
(Amistad Research Center, Tulane University)
Black Cowboy Bibliography
(Amistad Research Center, Tulane University)
Martin Luther King Bibliography
(Account? type Socrates; type select MLK; to return to this page type logoff)
Reference Books in the Field of African American Studies held by Columbia University Libraries
Selected Bibliography of African American History, 1820-1920.
Library of Congress.
Selections from the "African-American Mosaic"
A Library of Congress Guide to the Study of Black History and Culture
Slavery and Antislavery, a Bibliography of Recent Works in English (Part I)
Compiled by Steven Mintz
Slavery and Antislavery, a Bibliography of Recent Works in English (Part II)
Compiled by Steven Mintz
African American Women, a Biographical Dictionary
by Dorthy C. Salem. New York, NY: Graland Pub., 1996, c1993.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
Black History: Interesting dates arranged by month
Britannica Guide to Black History
Martin Luther King Chronology
Timelines of African American History, 1852-1880
Library of Congress
Timelines of African American History, 1881-1900
Library of Congress
Timelines of African American History, 1901-1925
Library of CongressCivil Rights Code of the U.S.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Sept. 22, 1862.
Fugitive Slave Act
1850
"The Negro National Anthem"
1900.African American Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1820-1920
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.
"Ain't I a Woman?"
Speech delivered by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851
The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs.
Copyright 1972.
Book Reviews
from the Quarterly Black Review of Books.
A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul Jennings.
1865.
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
1682-1937.
Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA 1936-1940.
Search for the word: African or Negro or Colored or Black to retrieve African American related material.
Martin Luther King Chronology.
Includes links to the following texts:
Brown vs. Board of Education, May 17 1954.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16 1963.
"I have a Dream" Speech, August 28 1963.
"I've been to the Mountain Top" Speech, April 28 1968.
Million Man March -- Louis Farrakhan's speech
October 16, 1995.
Million Man March -- Poem written and delivered by Maya Angelou and Pledge recited by participants.
October 16, 1995.
My Escape from Slavery by Frederick Douglass
1881. Also included "Reconstruction" by Frederick Douglass 1866.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written by Himself
1845.
"On the Pulse of Morning" by Maya Angelou
Spoken at the Presidential Inauguration, Jan. 20, 1993.
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson
1859
A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau
1853.
"Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom:" The William and Ellen Craft Narrative
1860
Sketches of Southern Life by Frances E.W. Harper
1891
Slavery in Massachusetts by Henry David Thoreau
1854.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
1903.
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Copyright 1900.
The Black Population in the US, March 1995
(from the March 1995 supplement to the Current Population Survey)
New Census Data Reports.
Summary of Findings 1995
Carl Von Vechten Photographs, 1932-1964.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Includes portraits of figures from the Harlem Renaissance.
Daguerreotype Photographs from the National Digital Library, 1842-1862,
Library of Congress. Includes photographs from the American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964. The Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia. Search for the term AFRO-AMERICANS.
African American Resources
from AfroAmerican Web Ring
The Afrocentric Debate Resource Homepage
Amistad Research Center
An Independent Archives, Library and Museum dedicated to Preserving African American and Minority History and Culture (Tulane University)
Archives of African American Music and Culture
(Indiana University)
Black Film Center/Archive
(Indiana University)
Black Studies at the University of Missouri
(St Louis)
Black Quest: Power Resource Links
Clarke Africana Library
(Cornell University)
Ethnic Studies at the University of Southern California
Exploring Amistad: Race & the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America
a website about the Amistad Revolt of 1839-42, provided by the Mystic Seaport Museum of American and the Sea.
Hill's African-American Site List
(compiled by Scott C. Hill, and Employee of Howard University)
The Historical Text Archive: African American History
(Mississippi State University)
Howard University
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
(Stanford University)
The Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic
Negro Leagues Baseball Online Archives
New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Post-World War II Civil Rights Struggles: An Introduction to Web Resources
Speeches and writings, photo tours and a host of other resources - from Columbia's Institute for Learning Technologies
Paul Robeson Centennial
care of Columbia College, Chicago.
The Seneca Village Website
cooperative project of the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the Office of Young Adult Services and Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies - a wonderful collection of materials on the history of Central Park and the African American community that pre-dated the park
W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research
(Harvard University)
The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
