Websites for African American History
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African American Digital Collections - Library of Congress Includes historical documents, narratives, photographs, music such as 1939 Lomax field recordings, African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920, and more.
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Civil Rights Digital Library Digital Library of Georgia
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Documenting the American South Collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
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Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro NYPL Digital Collection
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Making of America Digital library of primary resources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction including sociology as well as education, psychology, American history, religion, science and technology. Try using the advanced search with colored or negro as search terms. Note: These are primary source materials so the search terms reflect the language used in the time period. You can also add a geographic community name ex. Chicago as a search term and set dates
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March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project Primary source digital collection from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society - 1960s civil rights history
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Race & Place: An African American Community Archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century from the University of Virginia.
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SNCC Digital Gateway documents the history and legacy of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. information and primary sources Duke University.
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Umbra Search African American History University of Minnesota, in collaboration with Saint Paul's Penumbra Theatre Company. Search tool for over 500,000 digitized items.
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Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement American Archive -educational and noncommercial radio programs from the 1950s and 1960s that offer historic testimonies
Black History Month
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Unpublished Black HistoryBlack History Month Images from the New York Times
