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- MIT Open Courseware:African American Studies: MIT Open Courseware: African American Studies
- African American History: From Emancipation to the Present : Part of Yale's Open Courses, this course examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present. Taught by Dr. Jonathan Holloway
- The Black Past : A large collection of resources dedicated to African American history.
- The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive : The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.
- Africana Age : The social, political, economic, and cultural transformations that took place in the 20th century have paved the way for many positive developments in the post-colonial, post-segregation, post-apartheid first decade of the 21st century. This site has essays and multimedia resources that discuss this history.
- African-American Migration Experience
- African American Odyssey from the Library of Congress
- Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
- Amistad Digital Resource: A digital history of African Americans containing text, videos, and pictures: Amistad Digital Resource
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:"Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora."
- African American Studies Video Repository
- African American Literature 1619-1926
- African American Literature: Open Courseware from Saylor Academy
- W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
- The Poetry of Maya Angelou
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
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