African American Studies

Articles, documents, and notes and comments on all aspects of African American history.

Serves as a multidisciplinary forum for social scientists engaged in the analysis of the struggles and triumphs of black males. Challenges stereotypes and identifies strategies and policies that can counter the problems black men face.

Aims to analyze, develop, and advance Black Women's Studies paradigms and provides a cross-field and interdisciplinary venue for Black womanist and Black feminist theories, methodologies, and analyses.

darkmatter is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal committed to producing contemporary de/post-colonial critique. darkmatter gathers together and articulates critical thinking about race in the twenty-first century. Working within, outside and beyond the institutions and disciplines of the academy, darkmatter is a multimedia journal reconfiguring transnational anti-racist practice.

Includes the Google Cultural Institute Virtual Tour and the National Park Service Virtual Museum Exhibits

National Museum of African American History and Culture online exhibitions from Google Arts and Culture

Virtual tour of the Black Heritage Trail in Boston from Google Arts and Culture

Online exhibits from the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

Virtual tour of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site from Google Arts and Culture

Online exhibit from the DuSable Museum of African American History

Joint project of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all.

A collection of images, documents, stories, biographies and commentaries depicting America's journey through slavery.

This collection offers roughly 1,400 fully searchable printed works, books, pamphlets, and speeches from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow. It includes documents related to African Americans and citizenship, voting rights, literacy, land rights, employment, and more, including the gaps between written law and practice.

This collection offers +1,000 fully searchable books, pamphlets, and speeches from the beginning of Jim Crow to post-World War I that provide insights into African American culture and life during this period of segregation and disenfranchisement. Topics include African American identity, relationships with peoples of other nations, and literature.