Thousands of primary sources detailing African American migration over 400 years

A selection of 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

In the years following the Civil War, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's Bureau) provided assistance to tens of thousands of former slaves and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia

Digital Archive of 310 African American video oral history interviews

Artists, engravers and photographers managed to capture and preserve for posterity a variety of images of African Americans throughout the 19th century.

The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom exhibition presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP’s history during its first 100 years.

A map of slavery’s end during the American Civil War.

The Wisconsin Historical Society has one of the nation’s richest
collections of items documenting the Civil Rights movement, particularly as they relate to the 1964 Freedom Summer Project.