Indexes more than 8000 scholarly journals. Most are peer reviewed; many are full text.
Academic Search Ultimate is an excellent source of scholarly journals in all academic disciplines. More than 13,600 journals are indexed and full text is provided for more than 9,000. Searchable cited references are provided for selected titles
Searchable texts of non-fiction work by prominent African Americans, 1700 to present.
Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.
1960-1989
An interdisciplinary, comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. Publications offer both national and regional coverage.
Rare collection of over 30 full-text titles, focusing on African American, Hispanic American, and Native American presses from 1959-1989. Unique perspectives are presented on the most important issues concerning ethnicities and minorities in the U.S. and Canada during the pivotal years of the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's.
1700s-early 20th century Includes digital images of U.S. federal census records, U.S. Serial Set, Freedman's Bank records, genealogy sources, local history collections, and other primary sources.
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Colonial period to current Nonfiction published works of leading African Americans, including books, essays, articles, speeches, interviews, letters and other fugitive materials.
Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.
1490-2007
Includes documents and collections chronicling the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
More than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and science.
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Contains over 4,000 essays covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
• Full text from major reference works
• Biographies and personal narratives from oral histories
• Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources
cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and
blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression
1746 - 1900
Poems written by African Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Includes full-text of the poems and biographical information on poets.
Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a comprehensive survey of the early history of African American poetry, from the earliest published African American poems to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to achieve national success and recognition.
Complete texts of a broadly representative collection of approximately 9000 poems by 20th century African American poets. A biography is provided for each author.
Digitized documents from the NAACP's major campaigns and important local NAACP branches, 1909-1972. Full-text and searchable. Part of the Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle collection, which also includes Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century modules.
Digital copies of nearly two million pages of NAACP internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. Click on a module below for a content description.
