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African American Studies

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18th and 19th century American newspapers, periodicals and county histories. Full text searchable database with page images for newspapers.

Digitized periodicals, reports, and annuals documenting history of African American life and religious organizations between 1829 and 1922.

Chronicles the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.

19th century African American newspapers in full-text searchable form with page images.

Complete texts for poetry by African Americans, 1746-1900.
Records of the ACLU on free speech, citizenship, race, discrimination, immigration, labor, radicalism, and related topics. Includes papers of the Southern Regional Office of the ACLU, primarily in the period 1945 to 1990.

Periodicals that chronicle the Civil War from various perspectives. Full text digital images.

Unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. Content includes letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays from libraries and archives in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States.
Federal government records relating to the civil rights movement. Part of the Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle collection, which also includes the NAACP Papers modules.

Digital backfile of Ebony magazine from 1945 to 2014. This popular periodical covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus.

Newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, 1959-1989. Full Text.
Fulltext digital archive of the Chicago Defender newspaper, 1900-1975.
Fulltext digital archive of the New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993.
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Collections of primary sources, including magazines, newspapers, videos, letters, diaries, images, and ephemera.
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.
Online editions of reference sources for the study of U.S. history
105 peer reviewed encyclopedia articles on african history.

This historic collection chronicles the African American experience during the 19th century.

Legal materials on slavery in the U.S. and the English-speaking world.
Primary source documents relating to slavery and social justice.
Database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.

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