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Digital Historical Documents
- The African-American
Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History
and Culture.
- African-American
Perspectives
Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, Library
of Congress.
- African
American Texts from the Electronic Text Center (Univ. of
Virginia)
Includes Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk.
- Africana
Poster Collection
Posters published in Africa and elsewhere. Includes images of 77 posters,
selected as a representative sampling of the collection.
- American Civil
War: Letters and Diaries
- American
Memory Online Collections
Includes African-American Pamphlet Collection, African-American Sheet
Music, Frederick Douglass Papers, Slave Narratives from the Federal
Writers' Project, Southern Black Churches texts, First-Person
Narratives of the American South, and so on.
- American
Slave Narratives: an Online Anthology
- The Atlantic
Slave Trade and Life in the Americas: a Visual Record
A
project of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and The Digital
Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library.
- The Avalon
Project (Yale Law)
Documents in law, history, and diplomacy. Includes Fugitive Slave Act
of 1850, Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery, etc.
- Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975
Non-fiction published works of leading
African Americans: monographs, essays, speeches, interviews, journal articles, letters, biographical essays by leading scholars and an
extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
- Brown vs. the Board of Education Digital Archive
Documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.
Archive is divided into four main areas of interest: Supreme Court cases; busing and school integration efforts in northern
urban areas; school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District; and recent resegregation trends in American schools.
- The Digital Schomburg
Digital collections and exhibits include African American Women Writers
of the 19th Century, Images of African Americans from the 19th Century,
and Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.
- Documenting the American
South
First-person narratives of the American South, North
American slave narratives, church in the Southern black community, etc.
- Douglass: Archives of
American Public Address (Northwestern Univ.)
Archive of American oratory and related documents. Includes speeches
by Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Clarence
Thomas, Booker T. Washington, and so on.
- The Dred Scott
Case
Digital images and transcriptions of 85 original documents from the
Dred and Harriet Scott cases tried in St. Louis courts between 1846
and 1852.
- Historical
Text Archive: African American
- Internet
African History Sourcebook
- Making of America
(Cornell) and Making
of America (Univ. of Michigan)
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction.
- Martin Luther King
Jr. Papers Project
- Primary
Documents from the Affirmative Action and Diversity Project (USCB)
- Race and Ethnicity (English
Server)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: a Multimedia Archive (UVA)
- Valley of the
Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Hypermedia resource from the University of Virginia.
- Voices of Civil
Rights
Personal accounts of the civil rights struggle.