African-American Digitized Primary Source Material
The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
Called "Diverse and complex." Manuscripts, Newspaper articles, Serials, Photographs, and Pamphlets on Black life in Ohio.
Afro-American Almanac
"Your Internet Resource for African-American History"
Click on "Historical Documents" for full text of mostly early legal documents such as "Black Laws of Ohio (1804)"
American Memory (Library of Congress)
High quality resources from the Library of Congress.
Choose from 16 collections such as:
Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt
Interesting local documents from pre and post civil war era. Includes mortgages, deeds, wills, plantation records, etc.
City College Libraries Black Studies
This is a large compilation of texts and images from the City College of New York.
Check out: Tuskegee Airmen, Black Panthers, Affirmative Action and 48 other topics.
Civil Rights Documentation Project
Transcribed interviews with civil rights activists from the State of Mississippi
Documenting the American South
From the University of North Carolina. Comprised of seven collections of primary sources: Personal narratives, Southern Literature, Slave Narratives, Civil War, Black Churches, North Carolina Experience, and North Carolina and WWI.
Duke University Libraries John Hope Franklin Collection
Four digitized collections: African-American Women, Slave Narratives, William Grant Still, Jim Crow South. Includes audio clips and images.
Freemens Bureau Online
Documents from the immediate post-civil war period concerning the welfare of freed slaves. From an agency established by the U.S. War Dept in 1865. Information on marriages, murders, labor contracts, and other local documents.
Freedom's Journal
All 103 issues (March 1827-March 1829) of the first black-owned newspaper in the United States.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Assortment of documents, contemporary periodical articles, and newspaper articles.
Historical Text Archive
Many links to a wide assortment of materials.
Malcolm X Words Written and Spoken
Texts and recording of speeches, letters, etc of Malcolm X
New Deal Network Document Library
United States documents from 1930’s. Click on: African Americans, American Slave Narratives, National Urban League, Scottsboro Boys, and others.
Remembering Jim Crow
Audio memoirs from the days of legal discrimination in the United States.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A enormous and well known collection of archival material on African-Americans, most of which is not digitized. However, the image collection is.
Virginia Black History Archives
Interviews and photographs mainly from the Civil-Rights Era. Includes a few digitized archives.
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