Please send any comments or suggestions about this subject portal to Fran Mentch.

Need Help? Ask a Librarian or go to Research Help for more research options.

African- American History & Life

• African-American Experience in Ohio
• The African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• Africans in America (PBS)
• American Slave Narratives
• Black Power Movement Microform Collection (resource guide)
• Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
• First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
• History Research Tutorial (Ohio State University)
• Notable Blacks of Cleveland (approximately 2,000 images of 500 individuals selected from photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection at the Michael Schwartz Library)
• Slavery Times

Archives & Historical Research Centers

• African American Perspectives (Library of Congress)
• African Studies WWW (University of Pennsylvania)
• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
• The Amistad Research Center
• Black Film Center/Archive
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• The Historical Text Archive
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Directory
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Selections from The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide
• W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research

Art

• African American Artists on Disc (ask at Reference Desk of Library)
• Anacostia Museum (Smithsonian)
• National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)

Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• African-American Women's Network
• NAACP
• National Urban League

CSU Black Studies Department

• About the CSU Black StudiesCollection
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions

Education

• DiversityInc.com (minority news)

Kwanzaa

• MelaNet

Literature

• Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Literatures--African-American

Music

• Archives of African American Music and Culture
• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)

Politics

• Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Reference Resources

• The Black Population in the United States (current statistics from the U. S. Census Bureau)
• The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press)
• A Dictionary of African Mythology (Oxford University Press)
• Facts on the Black or African-American Population (social and economic statistics from the U. S. Census Bureau)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • Accessible Archives
  • CIS History Universe: Access to African American Studies
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • International Index to Black Periodicals
    
• Additional Databases:
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • America: History and Life
  • America's Historical Newspapers:(1690-1922)
  • Humanities International Complete
  • Social Sciences Full Text