Subject
Guides:
African-American Studies
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Black Archives is a non-profit organization that serves the community by
offering itself as an educational resource as well as a repository of every
facet in African American culture; music, art , theater, education, the
military, medicine, sports, religion, and community affairs. Site provides a
database of more than 800 online images that chronicle the African American
experience in the Midwest.
Good
annotated subject directory that provides a collection of quality links from the
Suburban Library System. Includes links to resources for women, an
inventor’s database, collections of images, slave narratives and many more
excellent sites.
American
Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
Spronsored by the American Studies program at the
University of Virginia, this site provides access to interviews with former
slaves from 1936-1938 from the American South. The narratives provide first-hand
accounts of experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. This site
sample of these narratives and photographs
taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be
found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).
Schomberg
Center for Research and Black Culture
New
York Public Library’s national research library devoted to collecting,
preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of
peoples of African descent throughout the world. Provides a wide variety of
excellent resources including digital image collection and online exhibits.
Digital
Schomburg: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Digital
Schomburg: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
AFRO-American
Almanac
This Internet Almanac is hosted and maintained by Digital
Development Group, a commercial enterprise.
Includes biographies, full-text books, historical documents, and
information about historic events. While a source list in provided, individual
items are not referenced. Good for general background information.
A
good starting point for exploring black history month and related issues.
Includes links to resources for Slavery
& History including slave narratives, Leaders, Poetry and much more. Site is
sponsored and maintained by Pacific Bell, a commercial enterprise.
The
Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Britannica’s offerings for Black History month provides
articles, illustrations, images timelines, and historical film clips and audio
recordings. Additional source material can be found in the Related Internet
Links and Bibliography sections.
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Encyclopedia
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New
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The
African American Almanac
Farmington
Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2000
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Notable
Black American Men.
Farmington
Hills, MI: Gale Group, 1999
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Notable
Black American Women
(Book I & II)
Detroit,
MI: Gale Research, 1992/1996
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Contemporary
Black Biography (v.1-31)
Detroit,
MI: Gale Group, 1992-2002
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Chronology
of African American history : from 1492 to the present
Hornsby,
Jr., Alton
Detroit,
MI: Gale Research, 1997
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The
New York Public Library African American Desk Reference.
New
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Black
writers : a selection of sketches from contemporary authors.
Detroit,
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African-American
writers : a dictionary
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Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000
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