Africana Studies: Websites and Organizations

Good overview on the African American experience drawing on the collections of the Library of Congress. Also includes web site links for Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, slave narratives, and the courts.

This digital archive of the magazine Atlantic gives unprecedented access to the ideas and stories that shaped American history—from 1857 to today.

Video oral histories and transcripts; includes national survey of other collections.

Find information on the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the third oldest and one of the "Big Four" civil rights groups in the United States.

books, newspapers & periodicals, journals, images, maps, tools, 17th - 21st century sources

FBI record on the Black Panthers

The story of black and white Americans who rode buses and trains in the Deep South in 1961, testing the Supreme Court mandated desegregation of interstate travel facilities.

Media projects related to the Harlem area.

Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers
other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

Covers thirteen migrations of African-Americans including: the transatlantic and domestic slave trade; western and northern migration; the great migrations of the 20th century; reverse migrations to the south.

The only museum to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery; and is an international hub for resources on human rights issues.

Opened Dec. 9, 2017 the museum "promotes a greater understanding of the Mississippi Civil Rights movement and its impact."

Travel Guides to encourage safe navigation for African Americans during a difficult period of segregation and Jim Crow. Lists hotels, restaurants, gas stations, etc. where they would be welcome.

Obituaries for remarkable black men and women who never got NYT obituaries...till now.

teaching resources, online exhibits, voting rights, Civil Rights era, racial discrimination, images, activists

Includes recollections of Montgomery bus boycott; correspondence with Martin Luther King, Jr., etc.

Includes ads, maps and links about enslaved African descended peoples for Haiti, Britain, Canada and 6 states: NC, VA, TX, MS, CT, MD.

Seneca Village (1825-1857) was "Manhattan's first significant community of African American property owners." The village was razed with the construction of Central Park. This project details archeological and historical research findings about the village.

U.C. Berkeley's project including: video, interviews, chronology, and "Black Panther" newspaper collection 1960-2002.

Digital sources from libraries, museums, and archives including: photos, manuscripts, documents, books, sound and video.