African-American History and Studies

Professional Associations

• Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
• National Association for African American Studies
• National Council for Black Studies
• Association of Black Women Historians
• Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation
• Academic Programs in Black Studies
• Graduate Programs [in Black History and Studies] (eBlackStudies.net)
• eBlackStudies: The State of Black Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research
• African American Journalism (Father Ryan High School, Nashville, TN)
• Journals (eBlackStudies.net)
• Black Issues in Higher Education
• Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
• Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies
• The Nation magazine sin ce 1865: History Packs
• Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation (sponsored by H-Net)
• National Association of African American Studies, Inc.
• African American Studies Program (University of Houston)
• H-Afro-Am (H-Net discussion network)
• APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
  (American Political Science Assocation)
• Fisk University Race Relations Institute
• African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.

Archives and Research Centers

• African American Voices (Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History)
• African American Studies Scholarly Resources (Columbia University Libraries)
• African American and African Diaspora Studies program (Indiana University)
• Africana Studies Program (New York University)
• Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
• National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University)
• Black Archives of Mid-America
• Collegium for African American Research in Europe (CAAR)
• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (Harvard University)
• The Legacy of W.E.B. DuBois (Colloquy with David Levering Lewis, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• African-American Studies Resources (Princeton University Library)
• John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation (Duke University)
• Walter B. Hill, " Some Sources for African American Historical Research at the National Archives," AHA Perspectives May 2005
• "Federal Records and African American History," special issue, Prologue 29 (Summer 1997)
• Lisha Penn, "Documenting African Americans in the Records of Military Agencies," Prologue 29 (Summer 1997)
• The Historymakers
• The HOLDINGS Project (R.A. Winbush, Fisk University)
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (re the history of slavery in U.S.)
• Negro Periodicals in the United States (M.R. Sylvester)
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York City)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies (University of Virginia)
• Documenting Our Past: The Tenne Harris Project [photographs of African Americans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1930's to 1960's]
• Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (University of Texas at Austin)
• [Alabama] State Black Archives Research Center and Museum (Alabama A & M University)
• African American Labor History Links (AFSCME)
• Southern Labor Archives (Georgia State University)
• A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
• African American Military History (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
• In Our Country's Service (National Rites of Passage Institute)
• African American Research Library & Cultural Center (Broward County Library, FL)
• Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995)

African American History Sites

• African American History (About/The History Net)
• The African American Journey (PBS)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Black Facts Online (K. Granderson)
• Black History Calendar (TheBlackMarket.com)
• African American Voices (Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History)
• Black History Quest
• Voices from History (The Nation)
• AFRO-American Almanac
• This Week in Black History (MIT)
• Black History Month (Gale Group)
• The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
• DoD Celebrates African American History Month (U.S. Department of Defense)
• Stamp on Black History: Black History Tour
• National Council of Negro Women
• Course Syllabi Resource Bank (Institute on Race and Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee)
• Academic Info African American History Page
• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• African and African American Collections at UC Berkeley
• African and Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University
• Black History Month (D. Hill)
• Black History Month (Biography.com)
• Black History Month (Social Studies School Service)
• Black History Month Resources
• Black History Resources (Tennessee State University)
• Afro-American History
• Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
  (Pacific Bell Knowledge Network)
• Black History Articles (The Black Collegian)
• Afrigeneas (Mississippi State University)
• African American Journey (World Book encyclopedia)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Washington and Du Bois at the Turn of Two Centuries, March 19-21, 1998, Roanoke, VA
• African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress exhibit)
• The Universal Black Pages (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Writing Black (Keele University, United Kingdom)
  (literature and history written by and about African Americans)
• Black Athena Revisited
• African/African-American Resources (Miami University)
• Black Studies sites (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
• African American Historical Documents (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
• African American History (MIT)
• Black Studies (L. Van Taylor, California State University, Chico)
• African American History & More (E. Moritz)
• Composers of African Descent (W.J. Zick)
• Black History & Classical Music: Composxers and Musicians of African Descent (W. Zick)
• Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee
  (B. L. Lovett and L. T. Wynn, Tennessee State University)
• Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)
• Voices from the Days of Slavery (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
• American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
• North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)
• Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920 (University of North Carolina)
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
• Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery, Yale University)
• American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
• Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (American Experience, PBS)
• Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University)
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
  selected from the collections of Brown University
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Gullah Gourmet Online (Gullah language and history)
• Darrell Reeck, "The Spirit of the Amistad in the United Methodist Church,"
  New World Outlook magazine of the United Methodist Church)
• The Amistad Case (teaching materials from the National Archives)
• The Amistad Incident (W.W. Norton)
• La Amistad Links, New World Outlook magazine of the United Methodist Church)
• Review of "Amistad" (film by Stephen Spielberg) by Sally Hadden, Florida State University
• The Amistad Case: 'Outright Plagiarism' or 'Who Owns History?' (Cornell Law School)
• Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
• Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
• American Colonization Society: Records and Photographs of teh American Colonization Society (Library of Congress)
• Influence of Prominent Abolitionists (African-American Mosaic, Library of Congress)
• Taking the Train to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (National Park Service)
• Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Registry Travel Itinerary
• The Underground Railroad (National Geogaphic Online)
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Dred Scott Case (Washington University, St. Louis)
• The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
  (University of Pennsylvania)
• Civil War @Smithsonian: Collecting, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience
  (National Portrait Gallery)
• Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
• The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
• African American Military History (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
• United States Colored Troops in the Civil War (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
• The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
  (National Archives teaching materials)
• History of Black Military Service
  (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
• History of African Americans in the Civil War (Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System, National Park Service)
• Exploring the Life and History of the "Buffalo Soldiers" (W. Hill, National Archives)
• American Civil War Research Database (Historical Data Systems)
• The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
  (International Museum of the Horse)
• Roanoke Freedmen's Colony (P.C. Click)
• Rebels with a Cause (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Buffalo Soldiers & Indian Wars (S.L. Davis)
• Texas Buffalo Soldiers
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (American Experience, PBS)(
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Juneteenth: Freedom Revisited (Smithsonian Institution)
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
  selected from the collections of Brown University
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
• The Nation magazine sin ce 1865: History Packs
• The Fisk Jubilee Singers
• Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site (National Park Service)
• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 (Library of Congress)
• Jackson Davis Collection (University of Virginia Library)
• Jump, Jim Crow or, What Difference Did Emancipation Make? (University of California, Berkeley)
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Ferris State University)
• The History of Jim Crow
• The Legacy of W.E.B. DuBois (Colloquy with David Levering Lewis, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Atlanta 1906: A Race Riot (Public Broadcasting Atlanta)
• Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders in Western New York (Dr. B.A. Seals Nevergold and Dr. P. Brooks-Bertram, University at Buffalo, SUNY)
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (American Experience, PBS)
• Martin Scorsese presents The Blues (PBS, 2003)
• Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project (African Studies Center, UCLA)
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s (Ohio State University)
• Kulturkampfen ("Wars for Civilization") of the 1920s (Assumption College)
• Harlem Renaissance (Father Ryan High School, Nashville, TN)
• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
  [March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem number] (Library of Virginia)
• Harlem: Past and present (Skidmore College)
• Langston Hughes: Artist and Historian (M. Blue)
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• William P. Gottlieb Photographs of the Golden Age of Jazz (Music Division, Library of Congress)
• Jazz and American Culture: An On-Line, Interdisciplinary Journal
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930 (Technoir)
• The History of Jazz (Jazz Central)
• Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure from 1893 to 1934 (S.A. Newman)
• Beale Street (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Club Kaycee:Jazz Sights and Sounds [Kansas City Jazz of the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's] (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
• Swinging Through Time: The Graystone Museum and the Story of Detroit Jazz (Internet Public Library)
• Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
• WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
• American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
• African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps (New Deal Network)
• Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration (Columbia College)
• Marian Anderson: A Life in Song (University of Pennsylvania Library)
• And This Is Maxwell Street
• A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979 (George Meany Memorial Archives)
• African-Americans in Army History (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
• Integration of the Armed Forces, 1945-1960 by Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
• Tuskegee Airmen (Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)
• African-Americans the the U.S. Navy (Navy Historical Center)
• 50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
  (Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II (Library of Congress)
• The Forgotten Leagues: The Official Site of the Forgotten Negro Baseball Leagues
• Negro Leagues Baseball Online Archive
• Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers (1947-1997)
• Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
  (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Ralph Ellison Project (Jerry Jazz Musician)
• A Brief History of Islam in America (E. Siddiqui)
• The State of Public School Integration: Brown v. Board of Education at 50 (Lewis Mumford Center, SUNY, Albany)
• Sixties-L Archives: History of the 1960's (University of Virginia)
• The Sixties Project (University of Virginia)
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Ciivil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 [1987, 2006] (American Experience, PBS)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Man Who Stirred the Nation (Black Voices)
• Martin Luther Kings, Jr. (Seattle Times)
• The King Center (Atlanta, GA)
• Martin Luther King, Jr.Papers Project (Stanford University)
• Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, GA)
• Selma to Montgomery March [March 21-26, 1965]
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Investigation (Sehlby County[,TN] Register of Deeds)
• Voices of the Civil Rights Era
• Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography (University of Southern Mississippi) [includes complete transcripts]
• A Civil Rights Sojourn
• National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)
• NAACP Online (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
• National Urban League
• Olive B. McLin Community History Project (Florida)
• I am a Man: An Exhibit Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
• RFK (American Experience, PBS)

Contemporary Issues

• Africana.com
• The American Muslim
• Roundtable: Race in America (Atlantic Unbound)
• The State of Black America: Annual Report on Socio-economic Conditions in Black America (National Urban League)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (University of Texas at Austin)
• Black Voices
• The Black World Today
• The New Great Migration: Black Americans Return to the South, 1965-2000 by William H. Frey(Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institution)
• African American Resources: Information, Products & Services
  About African American Culture
• BLACK Quest: Power Resource Links
• African Online Shop
• The Black Collegian Online
• The African-American Teachers' Lounge
• Black Film Center/Archive (Indiana University)
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Million Man March information, Washington DC, October 16, 1995
• The Nation of Islam Online
• Sisters of The Million Woman March [Philadelphia, PA, October 25, 1997]
• Isis (art and culture of women of African diaspora)
• Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (University of Minnesota)
• Rebels with a Cause (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Black Church Fires Online Resource Guide (United Methodist Church)
• Inside the Academy (blackandchristian.com)
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• Gallup Opinion Polls on line
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (University of Connecticut)
• Preserve Maxwell Street
• Alexander Barnes Dyrer, "Our Liberian Legacy," The Atlantic, July 33, 2003

Last updated on February 21, 2008

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