Walker Library: HIST 2020: Survey of US History, 1877-Present: African Americans

Digital Collections

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
This collection includes 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.
The Church in the Southern Black Community
Civil Rights Digital Library
This excellent site serves as a gateway to online primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters across the United States.

NAACP Papers This link opens in a new window
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.
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.

Modules:
Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files
Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department Files
Special Files
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Legal Department Files
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses

Say It Plain, Say It Loud
An impressive selection of speeches by Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dorothy I. Height, Barbara Jordan, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others.
HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection

Notable African Americans

Historical Newspapers

Chronicling America (Library of Congress) View content from historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers - searches the several African American newspapers (Chicago Defender, New Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide), as well as the Atlanta Constitution, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Users can limit a search to a specific date or date range under "Search Options."

Indianapolis Recorder (1899-2005)