News & Newspapers
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 (1827-1998)Provides online access to hundreds of historical U.S. newspapers chronicling the African American experience. Included in America's Historical Newspapers. Included in America's Historical Newspapers. Dates of Coverage: 1827-1998
- African American Newspapers, Series 2, (1835-1956)Provides online access to hundreds of historical U.S. newspapers chronicling the African American experience. Included in America's Historical Newspapers. Dates of Coverage: 1835-1956.
- African American Periodicals (1825-1995) This link opens in a new windowMore than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans, published in 26 states. Includes academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, bulletins, annual reports and more.
- America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1876) This link opens in a new windowCover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as full text searchable scanned page images. Includes the African American Newspapers and Caribbean Newspapers databases.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America. Dates of Coverage: 1959 to date
Websites
- Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow SouthA selection of 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.
- Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
- Digital Schomburg
Identifies trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience. Users can find citations to exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links on the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.
- Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database This link opens in a new windowTrack the journeys of over 67,000 Africans forced into slavery with this searchable database of passenger records from 35,000 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages.
- Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary SourcesProvides a rich array of primary source material on African American efforts to secure civil and human rights – from slavery and abolition to the contemporary era.