Thousands of primary sources detailing African American migration over 400 years

"'African American Perspectives' gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date range of 1822 through 1909."

The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa.

Collection of black abolitionist speeches and editorials

Collection of photographs and documents illustrating African American History in Missouri

Digitized selections from the Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia

"The Church in the Southern Black Community" collects autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials. These texts present a collected history of the way Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life.

Project depicts everyday life in Harlem between 1915 and 1930 using legal records and mapping

Collection of Pittsburgh Courier photographs by
Charles "Teenie" Harris that depict the events and daily life of African Americans from the 1930s to 1970s

FBI documents on the Nation of Islam leader

"A collection contains over 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles." - From Yale University collections.

FBI documents on the poet

Integration is a major focus of these interviews. A large portion of the interviewees were students at West Charlotte High School during its transition from a traditionally black school to an integrated one. Other important topics include business and politics in Charlotte.

Race and civil rights are subjects that naturally appear across all five of the areas represented by these interviews; this group of interviews focuses largely on integration at Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill and the roles of African American employees at the University of North Carolina.

Digitized government documents, interviews and speeches

Digitized episodes of the series produced by the Detroit Public Television that began airing in 1968

Provided by the Library of Congress, you can search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1943.

A digital edition of Radical America, a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

Documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present

Digitized version of the Mississippi white supremacist newspaper from 1955 to 1961

Include oral histories, fliers, letters, governmental records, news articles, images, diary entries, and other primary sources relating to the Civil Rights Movement

Collection of "archival resources documenting the modern civil rights era in Greensboro, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the early 1980s."

This site guides researchers to collections in several Library of Congress divisions that specifically focus on the Civil Rights movement as well as the broader topic of African American history and culture.

Digital archive of materials that documents the Civil Rights era in Memphis, Tennessee

Collection of more than 2,000 pages of primary sources dealing with the lynching of three Black men on June 15, 1920

Transcriptions of the complete interviews that were used in the documentary of the civil rights movement

FBI documents on the Freedom Riders

Museum at Ferris State University provides images of racist objects, images and cartoons along with essays

More FBI documents on the KKK

Collection of images, broadsides, pamphlets, and publications documenting civil rights in Arkansas

FBI case files on the 1964 murders of 3 civil rights workers

This controversial, 1965 Dept. of Labor report is also known as the Moynihan Report. The focus on 'historical causes' of poverty within the Black community, including gaps in educational achievement & access.

Collection of more than 200 oral histories from a number of Southern oral history programs

FBI documents on the KKK from the 1960s

Papers of the Supreme Court justice dealing with civil rights cases of the 1950s

Microfilm collection; hundreds of reels; A8473

Collection on oral histories, photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies documenting Civil Rights in Seattle

Digitized news segments from two Roanoke, Virginia tv stations (WDBJ and WSLS) plus documents and oral histories

Collection of interviews from the mid-1960s with civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and others

Website that accompanies book with the same title with graphic photographs of lynchings

117 documents including letters, warrants, bills of sale and antislavery material

Information on 100,000 slaves in Louisiana during the 18th and 19th centuries

Hundreds of images depicting slavery and the slave trade, includes maps, illustrations and photographs

Collection of black abolitionist speeches and editorials

Major collection: more than 2,300 first person accounts of slavery plus 500 photographs

Archaeological database includes some images

Database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color

A newspaper published weekly (1836-42) by the NY State Antislavery Society.

"African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date range of 1822 through 1909.

Digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers

Major collection: Books, memoirs and articles providing autobiographical accounts of slavery

111 documents detailing the 1846 case

Digitized collection of thousands of anti-slavery and abolitionist material

Over 100 pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) dealing with the legal status of slavery

Audio recordings of 22 former slaves

Narrative with accompanying documents including manifests, letters and contracts

Data on almost 35,000 slaving voyages supplemented with images, a names database and other material