Penn Library-African American Studies

African American Studies

I. Afro-American Studies at Penn.	II. Comprehensive Web Sites
III. Selected Topical Web Sites	IV. Resources by Type

I. African American Studies at Penn

African Studies Center

African-American Resource Center

Black Graduate and Professional Student Association

Center for Africana Studies (formerly the Afro-American Studies Program)

Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture

DuBois College House

Afro-American Studies Seminar Room in Van Pelt Library

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song

Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs, 1898-1992

Pioneer African American Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania.

UMOJA: The Black Organizations of The University of Pennsylvania

A Gallery of African American Alumni and Faculty

W.E.B. Du Bois Collective Research Institute

II. Comprehensive Web Sites

African American Culture

African-American Resources

African American Web Connection

Black Quest Power Resource Links

Gateway to African-American History

Historical Text Archive

Index of Resources for African American Historians

Smithsonian: African American History and Culture

Universal Black Pages

Voices of Shuttle

III. Selected Topical Web Sites

African Americans in Military History. A bibliography of materials detailing African Americans' involvement in various areas of the military throughout history. African Americans in the Sciences. African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. African American Theses and Dissertations, 1907-1997 A comprehensive bibliography of all theses written at the University of California, Berkeley on African American themes covering the years from 1907 to 1997. African American Mosaic A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black History and Culture. African American Perspectives: pamplets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 Panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900 from the library of Congress. Authors represented include: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. African American Women Online Archival Collections Provides memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, born in Augusta, Georgia in 1867; letters of Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, house slaves in Abingdon, Virginia; and a letter written by Vilet Lester, a slave in North Carolina.from the Special Collections at Duke University. African American Women Writers A digital collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. American Slave Narratives Selected narratives from the Works Progress Administration's massive interview and transcription project. All are available in print in the 19-volume collection edited by George P. Rawick, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79). Van Pelt Library Afro-American Studies Seminar (non-circ) Call number: E444 .A45 1972. Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture A national museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. Black Population in the United States African American demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Black American Feminism An extensive bibliography of Black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines. The Booker T. Washington Papers Booker T. Washington's papers. Civil Rights Timeline Seattle Times Newspaper. Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System A database of over 230,000 names of the United States Colored Troops developed by the National Park Service. Dred Scott Case Records documenting the Dred Scott case. The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. Freedmen's Bureau Online Freedmen's Bureau documents and records. Images of African Americans from the 19th Century Images of 19th-century African Americans from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia Images of stereotypical and negative African American caricatures. Malcolm X: A Research Site A resource for scholarship in Black Studies and the political development of Malcom X in the Black Liberation Movement. Kwanzaa Information Center A web site devoted to providing information on Kwanzaa. Literature in the United States A timeline that provides a chronology of African-American literature from its inception to the present-day. Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project Sample papers of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Martin Luther King, Jr. Links to the life and scholarship of Martin Luther King. Philadelphia Tribune Philadelphia's "Voice of the African-American Community." Slave Narratives, Abolitionist and other Pamphlets Several links to primary sources. Taking the train to freedom Underground Railroad Project from the National Park Service. Time line of African American History A time line of African American history (1852-1925) from the Library of Congress. United States Colored Troops Institute. "An educational institute to promote and encourage original historical and genealogical research about the 200,000 colored men and their 7,000 white officers who comprised the US Colored Troops during the American Civil War." W.E.B. Du Bois Web sites and some full-text, including The Souls of Black Folks Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America James Allen's collection of over 100 photos and postcards.