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African American Studies
CONTENTS
I. African American Studies at Penn
II. Comprehensive Web
Sites
III.
Selected Topical Web Sites
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- African
Americans in Military History.
A bibliography of materials
detailing African Americans' involvement in various areas of the military
throughout history.
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African Americans in the Sciences.
African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.
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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.
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African American
Mosaic
A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black
History and Culture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Booker T. Washington Papers
Booker T. Washington's papers.
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Civil
Rights Timeline
Seattle Times Newspaper.
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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.
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The Faces
of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.
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Freedmen's Bureau Online
Freedmen's Bureau documents and records.
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Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Images of 19th-century African Americans from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Images of stereotypical and negative African American caricatures.
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Malcolm X: A Research Site
A resource for scholarship in Black Studies and the political development of Malcom X in the Black Liberation Movement.
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Kwanzaa Information Center
A web site devoted to providing information on Kwanzaa.
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Literature in the United States
A timeline that provides a chronology of African-American literature from its inception to the present-day.
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Marcus Garvey and Universal
Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
Sample papers of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Links to the life and scholarship of Martin Luther King.
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Philadelphia Tribune
Philadelphia's "Voice of the African-American Community."
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Slave Narratives, Abolitionist and other Pamphlets
Several links to primary sources.
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Taking the train
to freedom
Underground Railroad Project from the National Park Service.
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Time line of African American History
A time line of African American history (1852-1925) from the Library of Congress.
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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."
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Web sites and some full-text, including The Souls of Black Folks
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Without Sanctuary:
Lynching Photography in America
James Allen's collection of over
100 photos and postcards.
IV.
Resources by Type
African American Studies Programs and Research
Centers
Archives & Special Libraries - African American
Studies
Databases-African American Studies
Electronic
Journals - African American Studies
Organizations - African American Studies
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