AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY RESOURCES

• Africana.com
  
  
• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts (an electronic book)
  
  
• Afro-American Studies on the Web
  
  
• American Slave Narratives (Univ. of Virginia)
  
  
• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide
  
  
• African American Odyssey (Library of Congress - American Memory)
  
  
• African American Web Connection (William R. Jones)
  
  
• African American Women: On-line Archival Collections (Duke Univ.)
  
  
• Africans in America (PBS)
  
  
• Black Quest Power Resource Links (Arthur Blair)
  
  
• Booker T. Washington Papers (Univ. of Illinois)
  
  
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (American Memory - Library of Congress)
  
  
• Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
  
  
• Digital Librarian: African-Americans (many good links)
  
  
• Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives (UNC - Chapel Hill)
  
  
• Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory - Library of Congress)
  
  
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 (Library of Congress)
  
  
• Gateway to African-American History
  
  
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition (Yale Univ.)
  
  
• The History of Jim Crow
  
  
• The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs (Univ. of Virginia)
  
  
• Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
  
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (Stanford Univ.)
  
  
• Negro Leagues Baseball Online Archives
  
  
• Race and Place: African American Community Histories (Univ. of Virginia)
  
  
• Resources on Slavery
  
  
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  
  
• Selected African American Studies Web Resources (Univ. Press of Va.)
  
  
• The Universal Black Pages: History (many links)
  
  
• Virginia Black History Archives (VCU)
  
  
• 18th and 19th Century Slave Trade Data (Univ. of Wisconsin)
• Web Sites for Slave Movement in the 18th/19th Centuries (Philip Curtin - Univ. of Wisc.)
  
  
• Facts.com (Facts on File News Services)
  
  
  
  
• African American Review (multi-disciplinary) (full text coverage via J-STOR)
• Journal of Black Studies (multi-disciplinary) (full text coverage via J-STOR)
• Journal of Negro History (1916-1997) (full text coverage via J-STOR)
  
  
  
  An excellent print resource is THE HARVARD GUIDE TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY (REF E 185 H 326 2001).
  
  
  
  

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