African American Studies

From the Library of Congress American Memory site. Primary documents in African American history and culture. Includes pamphlets from authors such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells.

From the Library of Congress American Memory site. Incredible collection of rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, photos, films, and recordings documenting the African American experience.

Founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, this journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

The HistoryMakers is single largest archival collection of its kind in the world. The goal is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers. In doing so, we want to include the stories of individual African Americans along with those of African American organizations, events, movements and periods of time that are significant to the African American community. The HistoryMakers is the next methodic and wide-scale collection effort since the WPA Slave Narratives Project.

These records document the Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference, an annual conference relating to the African American philosophy movement. Conference programs, abstracts, speakers, lectures, interviews, and publicity are included. Types of materials include brochures, flyers, other printed material, and video DVDs.

To access the PBS conference and interview recordings, visit Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference records Purdue e-Archives webpage.

This searchable guide to over 600 websites is also browsable by 30 subject categories; it is from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is managed by the center's library, part of the UNC library system.