Africana Studies: Web Sites

An introduction to African American research, includes essays and primary source material related to the African American experience at the National Archives

351 rare pamphlets offering insight into attitudes and ideas of African Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War.

A searchable database of events in African-American history. You can search by date or by keyword.

Statistical data from 1790-1960

A collection of primary source documents

Includes a number of digitization projects related to civil rights, slavery, and African American history

A multi-media presentation highlighting the life of Walter White, NAACP member from 1918 to 1955 and its leader for the last 17 years of his life. Created by Randy Stakeman, Bowdoin Associate professor of Africana Studies emeritus and Director of Africana Studies emeritus, and his son Jackson Stakeman.

Full text of 52 books and pamphlets from NYPL's Schomburg Collection.

Covers current African-American fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. Also includes list of classics.

Literary links from Alan Liu, an English professor at UCSB.

"1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."

AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views.

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