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AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE
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SELECTED
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BLACK AMERICANS |
Booker T. Washington Papers
http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/
"The Booker T. Washington Papers Online is a
completely free and searchable web site designed to provide researchers
worldwide with full access to the thousands of pages comprising this 14-volume
printed work, originally published by the
University of Illinois
Press.”
DuBois Central
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/collections/dubois/
An online exhibit of materials on W.E.B. DuBois, housed at the
Special Collections and Archives Division, W.E.B. DuBois Library, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.
The Frederick Douglass Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/
“The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of
the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery
and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer,
writer, and publisher. The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the
Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items
(16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist,
editor, orator, and public servant.”
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BOOKS
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The electronic books
listed below are available through the
CCM Library Catalog
Temples for
Tomorrow
: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press,
2001.
eBook PS153.N5 T45 2001eb |
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CIVIL RIGHTS |
Historic Places of
the Civil Rights Movement : We Shall Overcome, A National Register of Historic Places Travel
Itinerary
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
This site, sponsored by the National Park Service, has photographs of 49 sites
important to the Civil Rights movement.
Lest We Forget: Images of the Black
Civil Rights Movement
http://www.templeton-interactive.com/lest1a.htm
Portraits and annotated images of prominent leaders in the
Civil Rights Movement.
The Malcolm X Project at Columbia
University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/
Includes a multimedia version of The Autobiography
of Malcolm X as well as biographical materials.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/mlkpapers/
MLK Papers Project contains the text and audio recordings of King’s most popular
sermons and speeches. “The King Papers Project's principal mission is to publish
a definitive
fourteen-volume edition
of King's most significant correspondence,
sermons,
speeches,
published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.” The site is also organizing
the Liberation Curriculum, a collection of high school lesson plans that address
human rights issues.
Powerful Days in Black and White
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml
The civil rights photographs of journalist Charles Moore.
Voices of Civil
Rights
http://www.voiceofcivilrights.org/
"AARP, the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress have teamed up to
collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the
promise of equality for all."
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DATABASES |
JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection
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DIGITAL COLLECTIONS |
African-American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Showcases the incomparable African American collections of
the Library of Congress, displaying more than 240 items, including books,
government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and
recordings.
Avoice: African American Voices in
Congress
http://www.avoiceonline.org/
Historic footage, radio interviews, and exhibits.
African-American Women On-line Archival
Collections
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
The Special Collections Library at Duke University has created a digital exhibit
for the Elizabeth Johnson Harris Life Story Collection and the Hannah Valentine
and Lethe Jackson letter archive.
Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This website is the companion to the six hour public television documentary
series, “America's Journey through Slavery", and is presented in four parts. For each
era, you'll find a historical narrative, a resource bank of images, documents,
stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a teacher's guide for using the
content of the web site and television series in U.S. history courses.”
American Memory : African American
History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20History
A “gateway to rich primary source materials
relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more
than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.”
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life
in the Americas: A Visual Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php
This online collection is presented by
The Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities and
The Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library. “The hundreds of
images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most
of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a
tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the
general public -- in brief, anyone interested in 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.”
Breaking Racial Barriers: African
Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon
The website displays forty-one of the original 50 portraits commissioned by
Harmon, which are now housed in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian
Institute. “In 1944 the Harmon Foundation, then under the direction of Mary
Beattie Brady, organized an exhibition "Portraits of Outstanding Americans of
Negro Origin," with the express goal of reversing racial intolerance, ignorance
and bigotry by illustrating the accomplishments of contemporary African
Americans. Including twenty-three portraits created by both a black and a white
artist--Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) and Betsy Graves Reyneau
(1888-1964)--the exhibition premiered at the Smithsonian Institution on May 2
and then travelled around the United States for the next ten years. Other
portraits were added to the tour during that time.”
Jackson Davis Collection of African American
Educational Photographs
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/jdavis/
“Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took nearly
6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout
the Southeastern United States. His photographs -- most intended to demonstrate
the wretched conditions of African American schools in the south and to show how
they could be improved -- provide a unique view of southern education during the
first half of the twentieth century.” The website contains a searchable
database of digitized photographs.
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GENERAL SOURCES |
Association of the Study of
African American Life and History
http://www.asalh.org/index.html
The association, which was
founded by Carter G. Woodson, sets the annual theme for
Black History Month. In 2008, the theme will be “Carter G. Woodson and the
Origins of Multiculturalism”.
Black History Month Resources
http://www.tntech.edu/history/bhmonth.html
A collection of both new and classic web links from the Librarians' Internet
Index.
The Black Past
http://blackpast.org/
"This site is dedicated to providing reference materials to
the general public on six centuries of African American history. It includes an
online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African
America, full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and
leaders from the 18th Century to the present. There are also links to hundreds
of websites that address the history of African Americans including major black
museums and archival research centers in the United States and Canada."
Black Studies
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Informative site that covers a variety of topics and web
resources, such as Amistad, Black Panthers, Civil Rights, Slave Narratives,
Tuskegee Airmen, Underground Railroad, and many others. Sponsored by the
City College of New York.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition
http://www.yale.edu/glc/info/links.html
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies provides
links to online resources covering all aspects of slavery.
Guide to African American Documentary
Resources on the WWW
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/elw25/aa_digital_archiveshome.htm
“This website reviews several existing websites and digitization projects. The
scope and content of these websites greatly varies. Most are produced by
academic institutions, but there a many created by governmental institutions,
historical societies, and commercial agencies. A few are exclusively devoted to
African American related collections; a greater number focus on selected
documents. Descriptions of websites are organized alphabetically by the title of
the information institution or by the name of the collection.”
A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html
The Library of Congress provides resources on
African-American music, writing, and art.
Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
This site from the New York Public Library features special
collections, archives and manuscripts, digital resources, and online
exhibitions.
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JOURNALS |
History & Archaeology
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SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES
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AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS |
America Beyond
the Color Line. [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2003].
Video E185.625 .A443 2003
Freedom's Song : 100
Years of African-American Struggle and
Triumph.
[Los Angeles, Calif.] :
Farmer's Insurance Group, 2006.
DVD E185 .F74
2006
The Quiltmakers
of Gee's Bend. Birmingham, AL : Alabama Public Television, 2004.
DVD NK9112 .Q526 2004
Unforgivable
Blackness : the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Hollywood, Calif.
: Paramount : PBS Home Video, 2005.
DVD GV1132.J6 U54 2005
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BOOKS |
Aberjhani.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. New
York : Facts On File, Inc., 2003.
Reference PS153.N5 A24 2003
The
African-American Almanac. (9th ed.)
Detroit : Gale Group, 2003.
Reference E185 .A35 2003
Black Women in
America (2nd ed.) New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Reference E185.86 .B542 2005
Dawkins, Wayne.
Rugged Waters : Black Journalists Swim the Mainstream. Newport
News, Va. : August Press, 2003.
PN4882.5 .D38 2003
Dyson, Michael
Eric. Why I Love Black Women. New York : Basic Civitas Books,
2003.
E185.86 .D97 2003
The Harlem
Renaissance. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
Reserve PS153.N5 H225 2004
Humez, Jean
McMahon. Harriet Tubman : the Life and the Life Stories.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
E444.T82 H86 2003
Miles, Diana.
Women, Violence & Testimony in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston. New
York : P. Lang, 2003.
PS3515.U789
Z7855 2003
Slave Records
of Morris County, New Jersey : 1756-1841. (2nd ed., rev. and expanded)
Morristown, N.J. : Morris County Heritage Commission, 2002.
Reference E442 S64 2002
Talty, Stephan.
Mulatto America : at the Crossroads of Black and White Culture : a Social
History. New York : HarperCollins, 2003.
E184.A1 T35 2003
Tatum, Beverly
Daniel. "Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" :
and Other Conversations about Race. New York : Basic Books, [2003].
E185.625 .T38 2003
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JOURNALS |
Africa Today
(1985-1992)
The Black Collegian (1988-1995)
Black Enterprise (1976-1995)
Negro American Literature Forum (1967-1988)
Studies in Black Literature (1970-1977) |
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