African/African American Studies: Online Resources

An online encyclopedia on African American and Global African history, including primary documents, speeches, newspapers, and digital archives

Contains special collections items from the Library of Congress such as photographs, diary entries, recorded interviews, reference works, and serials

Contains special collections items from the Library of Congress such as photographs, diary entries, recorded interviews, reference works, podcasts and serials

African American collections from the Library of Congress, select exhibition items to see primary sources and other documents

A compilation of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives

Compiles records of the largest slave trades in history. Collections include the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Intra-American Slave Trade Database, People of the Atlantic Slave Trade Database, and image galleries.

Records of Federal agencies and collections that related to the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960

Cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities, including digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages

Features primary sources from the 1950s and 1960s Civil Rights Movement