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Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History
features a timeline, biographies, an image gallery,source documents and more on the subject of African American history.
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Boston African American Project
A database containing more than 500 images and text transcriptions (broadsides, caricatures, illustrations, manuscripts, pamphlets, political cartoons, etc.) relating to African American history from 1770 to 1950.
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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
A digital collection of 8,300 images, more than 60 maps and more than 16,500 pages of text about the history of migration of the African American people in the United States.
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The African Presence in the Americas: 1492-1992
This resource comprises essays and pictures about the 500 year history of African people in the Americas.
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LEST WE FORGET | THE TRIUMPH OVER SLAVERY
Created in 2004 to celebrate the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition, this digital collection explores the transatlantic slave trade.
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Digital Library on American Slavery
Provides data on individual slaves, slaveholders and free people of colour, collected from petitions, southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states.
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The History Place - African-Americans in WW II
A collection of pictures of African American soldiers taken during the Second World War.
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Founding of the Historically Black College and University
A collection of digital images which document the historically black colleges and universities, the institutions which were established before 1964 to develop African American education.
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Civil Rights Digital Library: Documenting America's Struggle for Racial Equality
Features a database containing primary sources from libraries, museums and archives throughout the country relating to the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
A resource devoted to Martin Luther King Jr. and the movement he inspired, this website brings together the King Papers Project, online publication of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., the King online encyclopedia, a digital encyclopedia on the Civil Rights Movement, a photo gallery and many other documents.
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Black Americans in Congress - Home
Features biographical profiles of former and current African Americans members of Congress as well as essays, historical data and images.
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African American and American Politics
A collection from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture about the involvement of African Americans in the politics of the U.S. in the last 200 years, from the impossibility to be part of the political life to the election of an African American president in 2008.
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American Slave Narratives
In the late 1930s, former slaves from the American South were interviewed for the Work Progress Administration about their experience of the slave regime. This website features the transcription of some of these interviews.
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The Antislavery Literature Project - Antislavery Literature Project
Based at the English departments of Arizona and Iowa state Universities, this database brings together slave narratives, lectures, travel accounts, political tracts, prose fiction, poetry, drama, religious and philosophical literature, compendia, journals, manifestoes and children's literature related to antislavery.
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
A selection of some 52 works by African American women writers published before 1920 as well as biographies of these women and critical essays.
