Library Links

African Americana and Africana Collections (Selected)

Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
Charles Blockson Collection (Temple University)
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library (Cornell University)
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (Northwestern University) - online catalog; includes the AFRC,
Africana Conference Paper Index
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

African American and Africana Studies

Cornell University
Harvard University
Ohio State University
Temple University
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Yale University
eBlack Studies

Associations and Organizations

African American Studies Librarians Section (AFAS)
National Association for Black Culture Centers
National Directory of African American Organizations Online

Bibliographies and Guides

Biographies, Biographical Sketches,and Webliographies of Individuals

Cooper, Anna Julia A. Voice From the South
Clarke, John Henrik
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Robeson, Paul
Washington, Booker T.
X, Malcolm

Black Studies Librarianship and Diversity in Libraries

African American Studies and Librarianship: A Selected Bibliography compiled by Dorothy Washington
African American Studies Librarians Section (AFAS)
AFAS Cataloging Issues Discussion Group
Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)
Library Instruction to a Diverse Population Bibliography. African American students
(American Library Assocation/ACRL)
Versed: Bulletin of the Office for Diversity, American Library Assocation

Book Reviews, Catalogs, and Publishers

African resources (Stanford University)
AllBlackBooks
Black Classic Press
Black Issues Book Review
Black Words
The Quarterly Black Review
Small Press Distribution -see the African American section
Third World Press

Celebrations and Events

Juneteenth
King Holiday (The King Center)
The Official Kwanzaa Website- by Maulana Karenga
Kwanzaa Information Center

Conferences, etc.

Gender and Race: Together At Last?
Gentrification - a panel at the 34th Annual Legislative Conference (Congressional Black Caucus Foundation)
Malcolm X: The Conference
The State of Black Studies: Methodology, Pedadogy and Research

Digitized Collections, Books, etc.

African American Art on the Internet
African Americans and HIV/AIDS (Kaiser Family Foundation)
African American Writers
African Passages
African Writers: Voices of Change
The Amistad Case
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Black Health Network
Brown v. Board of Education (Purdue University)
Census Bureau (United States)
eBlack Studies
[Civil Rights] Historical publications of the United State Commission on Civil Rights
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Leacy: Understanding Black Power Forty Years Later
Library of Congress
Malcolm X: A Research Site
Martin Luther King, Jr. Directory (Stanford University)
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
Newton (Dr. Huey P.) Foundation, Inc.(Stanford University)
Sciences, African Americans in the
Slave Trade Archives (Unesco)
Virginia Black History Archives

Databases,Dictionaries, Directories,and Indexes

H-AFRO-AM- African American Studies (searchable listserv)
Hip Hop Portal (searchable database)
Questia: The World's Largest Online Library (searchable database)
Swahili Dictionary
Universal Black Pages

Images and Symbols

Adrinkra Symbols (Cornell University)
Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection (Library of Congress) - includes images from Harlem
Renaissance and other African American celebrities
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (Schomburg Center)
Photographs, "African American Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, 1900" (Library of Congress)
NYPL Digital Gallery
The Winteron Collection of East African Photographs, 1860-1960 (Northwestern University)

Indiana African American life and culture

Black Women in the Middle West Project Records, 1932-1986
Indiana Emigrants to Liberia
Indiana African American Bibliography
African American Cemeteries Online - Indiana

Journals, Newspapers, etc.

Cornell Univ.
Purdue Univ.

Maps (selected)

The African Diaspora Map I
The African Diaspora Map II
Maps of Liberia, 1830 - 1870 (Library of Congress)

Narratives of Enslaved Africans

(Click for Narratives)

Speeches, interviews, etc.

Barack Obama (Democratic National Convention, 2004)
Fannie Lou Hamer (Democratic National Convention, 1964)
Rev. Jesse Jackson (Democratic National Convention, 1984)
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (text of several speeches)
----- I Have A Dream
----- Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Malcom X
Rev. Al Sharpton (Democratic National Convention, 2004)

Underground Railroad

Women

African American Women In Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Schomburg Center)
Association of Black Women Historians
Black American Feminism
Black Women's Health
Black Women in the Midwest Project
Gender and Race: Together at Last?
Medicine
Changing the Face of Medicine (National Library of Medicine)

Alexander,Virginia
Allen, Ethel
Beard, Lillian
Benjamin, Regina
Bigby, JudyAnn
Arena Brawner
Brown, Dorothy
Buckingham, U. Diane
Cadore, Judith
Canady, Alexa
Chinn, May
Christian-Christensen, Donna
Cole, Rebecca
Crumpler, Rebecca
Curry, Sadye
Dickens, Helen
Douglas, Janice
Dwelle, Georgia
Easterling, Ruth
Edwards, Lena

Elders, M. Joycelyn
Epps, Roselyn
Evans, Matilda
Frebee, Dorothy
Floyd, Virginia
Ford, Justina
Gamble, Vanessa
Gaston, Mayilyn
Gayle, Helene
Grier, Eliza
Hamburg, Margaret
Hunter, Gerturde
James, Grace
Jenkins, Renee
Johnson, Halle
Johnson, Paula
Jones, Edith
Lattimer, Agnes
Lavizzo-Mourey, Risa
Lawrence, Margaret

Manley, Audrey
Marks, Shirley
Mitchell, Janet
Ofili, Elizabeth
Perez, Lucille
Petioni, Muriel
Pinn, Vivian
Prothrow-Stith, Deborah
Reede, Joan
Reid, Clarice
Ross-Lee, Barbara
Scott, Rosalyn
Silva, Omega
South-Paul, Jeannette
Spurlock, Jeanne
Tanner, Natalia
Thomas, Debi
Veal, Yvonnecris
Wright, Jane
Young, Terri

Other African and Diaspora Resources

Black/African Related Resources (University of Pennsylvania)
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Floyd Ingram's Home Page
Columbia University
Library of Congress
Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
Sonja Haynes Stone Center (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

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Compiled by Dorothy Ann Washington
Purdue University, Black Cultural Center Library