African American Poetry
Poetry and literary criticism.
Chadwyck-Healey Literature Online
Includes African-American poetry, drama and prose.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America
International Index to Black Periodicals
Current content from international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies and contains full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
JSTOR
Full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals, including African and African American studies.
Oxford African American Studies Center
A comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
A full-text database spanning academic disciplines with coverage of popular press and scholarly publications, including peer-reviewed journals.
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
Full text coverage of general news, business, legal, government and other topics.
A guide to primary source materials on microform at JD Williams Library related to African Americans, Mississippi, and Southern History.
African American culture: Some sites you should bookmark
A list of websites from C&RL News divided into five sections: Getting started, Educational sites/research centers, Organizations/Associations, Afrocen-tric sites, and E-journals/news services.
African American Odyssey
The papers of Frederick Douglass, slave narrative, Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860, Jackie Robinson and more; from the Library of Congress
African American Perspectives.
African American Studies: Documenting the African American Experience at the University of Mississippi
The African-American Studies program grew out of demonstrations of over 80 African American students at the University of Mississippi in 1970 resulting in the hiring of Ms. Jeanette Jennings, the first black faculty member and courses in the Black Studies Program.
Brown v. Board of Education
Full text of court decisions related to the Brown case from the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and citations to related state court cases. Also included are oral histories and a bibliography of books related to Oliver L. Brown.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
The University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture promotes scholarship on every aspect of Southern culture, through publications, media productions, lectures, performances, and exhibitions.
Civil Rights Digital Library
Promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.
Civil Rights Documentation Project
Includes the Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography; Civil Rights History Transcripts; Civil Rights Timeline.
Civil Rights In Mississippi: Digital Archives
Includes civil rights oral histories, transcripts and photographs, a timeline, bibliographies, digital collections as well as other civil rights resources.
The Civil Rights Movement: Sites for students and researchers
A list of websites from C&RL News that include an excellent array of primary source materials, including papers, laws, photographs, oral histories, and speeches. These digitized collections will interest researchers of any age group or scholastic level.
Greensboro Sits-in: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
This site promotes champions the four students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and contains media headlines, a timeline, photo gallery, access to the News and Record's Online Archives, and related web links.
MAAP: Mapping the African American Past
Created to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th-century through the recent past. The Web site is a geographic learning environment, enabling students, teachers, and visitors to browse a multitude of locations in New York and read encyclopedic profiles of historical people and events associated with these locations. The site is further enhanced by selected film and music clips; digitized photographs, documents, and maps from Columbia University's libraries; and commentary from Columbia faculty and other specialists.
Malcolm X Project at Columbia University
Includes a biography, timeline, bibliography, videography, and discography of published resources. as well as a number of articles about Malcolm X.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
A major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated. Biography, encyclopedia of MLK's life, sermons, speeches, writings, and unpublished manuscripts.
Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection, Library of Congress
A panoramic review of African American history and culture, spanning almost 100 years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A division of the New York Public Library. the Schomburg Center provides access to more than 5 million documentary items including archive and manuscript collections, digital collections, maps atlases, exhibitions, and other web resources.
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
The nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans. The Institute serves as the site for research projects, fellowships for emerging and established scholars, publications, conferences, and working groups.
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Includes a list of historic landmark sites of the civil rights Movement, an itinerary map, histories of the civil rights movement, autobiographies, and biographies.
Who Speaks for the Negro?
An archival collection of interviews with a variety of Civil Rights Movement figures conducted for Robert Penn Warren's book.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Collections Archive
The purpose of the Archives Division of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is to collect, house and make accessible records and documents relating to the civil rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's in the city of Birmingham.
Civil Rights Memorial
A collective memory of history; covers 1954-1968: the early struggles, the movement of the people, fighting for the ballot, confrontations, and days of rage.
The King Center
Established in by Coretta Scott King, the King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of Dr. King’s legacy. The Center uses books, audio and video cassettes, film, television, CDs and web pages to educate people about Dr. King’s life, work, philosophy, methods of nonviolent conflict-reconciliation, and social change.
National Civil Rights Museum
The National Civil Rights Museum was opened in 1991 at the site of the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide, through its collections, exhibitions, research and educational programs.