This collection explores the African American community in Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn, and North Carolina, highlighting challenges of racism, discrimination, and integration, as well as their unique culture and identity.
Black Studies Center supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.
Primary source material pertaining to the civil rights movement and to U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era. Includes federal records, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries is organized in five subject categories.
Black Drama contains the full text of plays written by more numerous playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.
HathiTrust is a partnership of research institutions committed to digital preservation of the cultural record. The Digital Library provides access to public domain and some in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Materials are available to the extent permitted by copyright law. HathiTrust catalog records are included in Scout, but not in the Libraries’ Catalog.
This collection includes the full text of historically significant African American newspapers, published in 36 states.
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Newspapers.com Library Edition offers full page newspaper images with searchable full-text of newspapers. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to both full runs and portions of runs of newspapers.
Black Studies Center supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.
This database provides access to periodicals by and about African Americans. Representing 26 states, the publications offer a range of material, including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
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Primary source resources through video content, fully searchable transcripts, and oral histories from individuals whose life stories bring African American history to life.
KweliTV is a streaming service and TV/video network dedicated to the issues, stories and culture of the global Black community.
Includes independent films, documentaries, web shows, and news from the entire African diaspora. Content is selected with an emphasis on the true Black experience without the stereotypical roles and storylines seen in mainstream media. It includes a free, live tv stream. New content is added weekly. Click "Login through your institution". Then click "Skip" to access KweliTV and begin your search.