Primary Sources for the Study of African American History

Gateways and Collections

Gateway to African American History http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/

Eserver Race and Ethnicity http://eserver.org/race

Keele University’s Writing Black http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html

African American Writers: Online E-Texts http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm

Africans in America (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/

Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html

Quaker Accounts of the Underground Railroad in the Region of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/URR_page.htm

Don Mabry’s Historical Text Archive http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=8

About.com’s African American History: Primary Text Index http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blprimary_text.htm

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

African American Mosaic http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: Freedom's Journal http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/library/aanp/freedom/

Black Renaissance in Washington, DC http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

American Slave Narratives (UVA) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives: Beginnings to 1920s (UNC) http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html

National Gallery of Art Selected African American Artists http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-main1.html

B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library http://www.brooklyn.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm

Art of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.iniva.org/harlem/index2.html

Look Back, Ponder, and Move On: Glimpses of the African-American Experience in Savannah, 1750-1900 http://www.kingtisdell.org/exhibit.htm

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/085_disc.html

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 To The Present http://www.si.edu/anacostia/reflections_in_black2.htm

Roadmap to African-American Resources http://cisit.santafe.cc.fl.us/~sdupree/RESORLIK.HTM

Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vvhtml/vvhome.html

Baseball: The Color Line and Jackie Robinson http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrabout.html

Frederick Douglas Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

African American Quotations (Fact Monster) http://kids.infoplease.lycos.com/spot/bhmquotes1.html

Black Film Center/Archive http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/

Salute to Pioneering Cartoonists of Color http://www.clstoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm

Roadmap to African-American Resources http://cisit.santafe.cc.fl.us/~sdupree/RESORLIK.HTM

Still Cookin' By the Fireside: African Americans in Food Service - http://www.si.edu/anacostia/food/

Soul Food Cookbook http://www.soulfoodcookbook.com/

Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/posters/

Facts on the Black/African American Population (Statistics) http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/afamhot1.html

Curriculum

African-American Poetry Unit http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama/aapoets.htm

Getty’s ArtsEdNet site http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/jacoblawrence/index.htm

Kennedy Center’s ArtsEdge African Art and Culture http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teaching_materials/curricula/curriculum_units.cfm?curriculum_unit_id=14

Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories (Whitney Museum) http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/

Amistad Case http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/amistad/home.html

Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/usct/home.html

Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/robinson/robmain.html

American Memory Learning Page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/index.html

(Visit From Jim Crow to Linda Brown, Jackie Steals Home, and To Kill a Mockingbird)

Journey Through Art with William H. Johnson http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/johnson/intro3.html

Many Faces of Paul Robeson http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/paul.html

Web of Life: Art of John Biggers http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Biggers/index.html

The Blues: A Uniquely American Form of Music http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=2829

Inspired Voice of Spirituals: Marion Anderson http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teaching_materials/curricula/curric/mariananderson/midmusic.html

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