African & African American Studies

The records displayed in this exhibit document the Scotts' early struggle to gain their freedom through litigation and are the only extant records of this significant case as it was heard in the St. Louis Circuit Court.

From the SNCC Digital Gateway.

Selected writings and correspondence documents from The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

From the National Park Service.

From PBS's American Experience, a timeline of Malcolm X's life, with links to other PBS resources.

Contains primary documents written during Dr. King's life, as well as secondary documents written about him.

Site also includes a timeline and photo gallery. From the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute.

From the International Museum of the Horse, a history of the African American role in the U.S. Calvary.

"includes all of the African American soldier and sailor records."

Drawing upon the rich resources of the National Archives of the United States, this project explains how black people traversed from slavery to freedom, between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction in 1867.

Subtitled An African American Community, this exhibition presents "the lives of great African American writers, artists and musicians as seen through the lens of a camera."

A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. The African American Mosaic is an introductory guide covering colonization, abolition, migration after the Civil War, and sources from the WPA.

From Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.Compiled from court records (most created in the historic Old Courthouse) over the last 20 years by various researchers.

Legal and personal documents related to the institution of slavery in the United States from 1757-1860s. From the Duke University Libraries Repository.

a digital collection of 800-plus speeches and writings, including some 1,000 editorials, by African American abolitionists from the pre-Civil War period.

"contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black and white photographs of former slaves."

This brief chronology "lists important events in the history of emancipation during the Civil War."

"offers the opportunity to honour and remember those who suffered and died at the hands of the brutal slavery system. The International Day also aims to raise awareness about the dangers of racism and prejudice today."

This site provides access to information on slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin.

National Geographic Online presents an interactive journey through the Underground Railroad.

This is a digital database of runaway and captured slave advertisements in 18th century Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. University of Virginia.

The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

Democracy Now's coverage of the Black Panthers. Stories from 1996-present.

A digital collection on the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi from the University of Southern Mississippi Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.

Includes video interviews of civil rights activists as well as articles and essays around the civil rights movement.

From The History Channel, a topic page about the Sit-Ins that started the Sit-In movement.

From the National Museum of African American History and Culture, about the 1957 enrollment of nine African American students in the all white Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.

An historical essay accompanied by a large image gallery. "A project of the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute."

"SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country’s entrenched political, economic and social structures."

Includes articles and brief biography of Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Papers Project, Stanford University.

"Your resource and guide to the films, stories and voices across public television centered around Black history and culture."

Contains valuable primary source materials. Focus on important materials relevant to the American civil rights and Black Power movements.

"Relying on the expertise of distinguished curators and scholars, Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora."

The Institute is dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans. This site serves as a resource for information on research projects, fellowships for scholars, publications, conferences, and working groups.