AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
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Reference Resources
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
Call Number: DT14 .A37435 2005 v. 1-3
The African American almanac
Call Number: E185 .A267 2003
Encyclopedia of African American politics
Call Number: E185 .S58155 2003
Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration
Call Number: E185.6 .E54 2006 v. 1-3
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas
Call Number: E185 .E54 2006 v. 1-6
Encyclopedia of African American Society
Call Number: E185 .E546 2005 v. 1-2
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American literature
Call Number: PS153 .N5 G73 2005
Encyclopedia of African and African-American religions
Call Number: BL2462.5 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of African-American heritage
Call Number: E185 .A455 2000
Encyclopedia of Black Studies
Call Number: E185 .E554 2005
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Call Number: NX512.3 .A35 E53 2004 v. 1-2
The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia
Call Number: PS3563 .O879 Z913 2003
Online Databases
African-American Experience
This online database contains collections on African American history and culture.
Black Thought and Culture
Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
Black Studies in Video
Contains hundreds of hours of documentaries, interviews, and archival footage detailing the black experience.
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Historical collection of Chicago's premier African-American newspaper.
Ethnic Newswatch
This database presents multi-ethnic and multi-cultural points of view from newspapers, magazines, and journals.
Chicago Local Collections
The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
The largest African American history and literature collection in the Midwest is housed at the Chicago Public Library
Woodson Regional Library.
Northwestern University Library Africana Collection
The largest separate Africana collection in existence. Subject coverage includes art, history, literature, music, religion, communications, management, cooking, and more.
Chicago History Museum
Museum and research center dedicated to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois.
DuSable Museum of African American History
The only major independent institution in Chicago established to preserve and interpret the historical experiences and achievements of African Americans.
Internet Resources
The HistoryMakers
A video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history. The collection focuses on African American history, education, music, law, the arts, science, technology, media, medicine, entertainment, fashion and beauty, business, the military, politics, and sports.
African American Odyssey
Part of the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving, and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. A branch of the New York Public Library.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture-Smithsonian
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003 to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans.
The Legacy Museum(EJI)
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opened to the public on April 26, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama, this museum is built on the site of a former warehouse where enslaved black people were imprisoned, and is located midway between an historic slave market and the main river dock and train station where tens of thousands of enslaved people were trafficked during the height of the domestic slave trade.
Last Updated: August 20, 2020
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