*Africana Studies: Open Web Resources

The inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American History and Culture was compiled of images selected from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The theme: African American resistance across 150 years of American history.

A searchable digital collection of historical images hosted by the New York Public Library.

Miami University of Ohio's historical project consisting of documents, speeches, videos, newsletters, and photographs.

Completed in 2005, the Dirksen Congressional Center's project aims to provide a mapped out timeline of the Civil Rights Movement as it lead to the 1964 approval of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The intentions of this guide, maintained at Cornell University, are to provide the researcher with helpful tips, and suggested print and electronic resources about women involved in the Civil Rights movement in the United States.

This website is created by Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement (1951-1968). It is where the veterans tell it as it was, the way they lived it, saw it, and still see it.

Miami University of Ohio's historical project consisting of documents, speeches, videos, newsletters, and photographs.

"This is a comprehensive website on the life and legacy of Malcolm X."

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project has made the writings and spoken words of one of the twentieth century's most influential figures widely available through the publication of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., a projected fourteen-volume edition of King's most historicaly significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. The site contains a selection of featured and searchable documents for viewing by researchers.

"The exhibition Voices of Civil Rights documents events during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This exhibition draws from the thousands of personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the "Voices of Civil Rights" project, a collaborative effort of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress, and marks the arrival of these materials in the Library's collection."

Voices of Freedom was produced to record oral histories of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia.

This web site is designed to provide convenient access to online presentations and resources concerning the subjects of African-American archaeology, history and cultures, and broader subjects of African diaspora archaeology and heritage.

Online Archival Collections Special Collections Library, Duke University.

An examination of thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Every racial or ethnic group has specific health concerns. Differences in the health of groups can result from genetics, environmental factors, access to care, and cultural factors. On this page, you'll find links to health issues that affect African Americans.

The Women of Color Health Information Collection presents data on race/ethnicity and disease. Through data, clues about how culture, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and geographic location contribute to the health status of women of color can be identified. In order to explore sex differences, scientists need data about the similarities and differences between women and men in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other conditions.

Information for African Americans who are at risk or suffering from diabetes.

The new survey, along with a series of focus groups, highlight the multifaceted views Black Americans hold when it comes to trust in medical research scientists. The findings speak to how contemporary experiences with the health care system, as well as past injustices, inform the range of attitudes Black adults express. In this and other topics addressed in the survey, there are important differences in how Black Americans see these issues depending on their education, age, gender and other characteristics.

Links to projects on the history of African Americans in Maryland. Also provides information on doing research in the subject area.

“On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” is a award-winning, weekly hour, produced and hosted by Esther Iverem. It focuses on social justice activism about local, national and international issues, with a special emphasis on militarization and war, the police state, the corporate state, environmental justice and the left edge of culture and media.

This Library of Congress site offers a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: The African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date range of 1822 through 1909.

This New York Public Library research guide includes a digital collection of books and pamphlets published by 19th-century black women writers, together with author biographies, citations, and more.

More than 100 works tracing how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The online collection, containing approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images), spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865. Many of Douglass’s earlier writings were destroyed when his house in Rochester, New York, burned in 1872.
NOTE that many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders. Additional information and potential access to archived federal data can be found in this guide.

Twentieth century titles also have many photographs of African-American musical performers, often in costume. Searchable. Excellent site.

"The Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago was founded in 1983 and is the only organization of its kind. The CBMR documents and preserves information and materials related to the black music experience throughout the world."

America's journey through slavery is presented by PBS with supporting resources such as images, documents, stories, biographies, commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the site and its correlating television series in US history courses.

"Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves."

This digital library put together by the University of North Carolina Greensboro allows users to dive into the documents, photos, and stories of the American slavery experience.Entries come from petitions, wills, and other official documents.

Provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture.

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The online collection, containing approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images), spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865. Many of Douglass’s earlier writings were destroyed when his house in Rochester, New York, burned in 1872.
NOTE that many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders. Additional information and potential access to archived federal data can be found in this guide.

"The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom."

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Census data related to African Americans.

This report provides a portrait of the Black population in the United States and discusses its distribution at the national level and at lower levels of geography. It is part of a series that analyzes population and housing data collected from the 2010 Census.

The Resource Center for Minority Data provides educators, researchers, and students with data resources so that they can produce analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.

An excellent source for United States population and economic data.

NOTE that many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders. Additional information and potential access to archived federal data can be found in this guide.