Research Guides: HIS 325/525: Black America Since 1945: Primary Sources

Michael Schwartz Library

African American History

African American Migration Experience
Images, texts, and maps about African American migrations.
The African American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
American Memory: African American History
Library of Congress digital collections
Digital Public Library of America: African Americans
Brings together the collections of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Umbra First African American History
More than 500,000 digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.
African Americans in Ohio
A listing of collections based on the subject of African Americans in Ohio.
Civil Rights Digital Library
Digital Library of Georgia

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice This link opens in a new window
A collection of primary source documents centered on the study of slavery, the African American experience and world history spanning from 1490 to 2007. The collection includes original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and images.

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
University of Mississippi. Includes a selection of digitized photographs, letters, diaries, and other documents. Oral history transcripts are also available, as well as finding aids for manuscript collections.
Freedom Summer Project
Includes key documents and teacher resources.
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
University of Maryland, Thurgood Marshall Law Library
Integrating Ole Miss: A Civil Rights Milestone
Letters, recorded telephone conversations, and images documenting racial violence in 1960s Mississippi.
The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists
Compilation of documents, sound recordings, and visual images.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute
Includes MLK Jr. papers and other primary sources.
Rosa Parks Papers
Library of Congress Collection
Who Speaks for the Negro? An Archival Collection
A digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965. Includes interview Warren made on reel-to-reel tape.
Civil Rights Digital Library
A collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives as well as teacher resources and primary sources.

Black Panther Party
Sound files such as oral histories, interviews, and songs documenting the development of the Black Panther party.
Who Speaks for the Negro? An Archival Collection
A digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965. Includes interview Warren made on reel-to-reel tape.
A.P. Marshall African American Oral History Archive
Chronicles the lives and struggles of Black Ypsilantians in their own words.

Hiphop Archive
Facilitating and encouraging the pursuit of knowledge, art, culture and responsible leadership through hiphop.
Images of African Americans in the 19th Century
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Center for Black Music Research
An independent research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to documentation, research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of digital images and associated information, with new image collections added several times a year.