Web Sites
Black Studies (from CCNY)
UNCG African-American Studies DeptThe Greensboro VOICES Project: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and A collaborative effort of the UNCG University Libraries, the Greensboro Public Library, and the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
- provides access to a collection of 125 oral interviews
- searchable database
- recordings are housed at UNCG University Archives and Greensboro public library
- collection of oral histories about civil rights in Greensboro, North Carolina
- provide first-person accounts of a wide variety of experiences including the 1950s and 1960s struggle for equality, the 1963 marches led by Jesse Jackson, the 1971 Greensboro school system integration, and the deadly Nazi/ Klan and CWP confrontation of 1979.
Digital Schomburg Images of 19 th Century African Americans
- Pictorial database that shows individual and family portraits of 19 th century African Americans
- Records physical characteristics of African Americans
- Records slaves transitioning from slavery to freedom; rural to urban
- Image makers include white Americans, African Americans, and Europeans
- Original material is located at the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library
Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project –
- Video clips and transcripts of oral history interviews and performances
- Video outtakes of Jazz on a Summer Day and the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival
- Notable performers include Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Majalia Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Nat Adderly, Jimmy Heath, Randy Weston, and others
African American Cemeteries in Albemarle and Amherst Counties
- searchable database of hundreds of small cemeteries in two Virginia counties
- searchable by person or cemetery
- includes maps of the cemeteries
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- 19th century African-American abolitionist, antislavery lecturer and writer
- contains 7400 items (38,000 images) of correspondence, speeches, articles by Douglass, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, articles by contemporaries
- correspondence with Susan B. Anthony, Grover Cleveland, Horace Greeley, and others
- covers the years 1841 to 1964 (mainly 1862-1895)
- searchable by keyword, name, or series
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
- author, anthropologist, folklorist, playwright (1891-1960)
- selection of ten plays (over 1,000 images) unpublished but registered in the US Copyright office
- light-hearted, comedic, some song lyrics and music
- searchable by keyword and title
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
- Books, pamphlets, journal articles, and slave narratives describing the southern African American’s experience in segregation, bigotry, and transformation of Protestant Christianity in the 19 th century.
- Includes white churches’ conversion efforts, evangelical Christians, and realities of slavery
- Searchable by keyword, subject, author, and title
The African-American Mosaic – resource guide for the study of Black History & Culture
- Mosaic exhibit covers four major areas of Black History: Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA
- Examples include the "back-to-Africa" movement represented by the American Colonization Society and the vigorous opposition by abolitionists; and the movement of blacks to the North documented by the WPA in the 1930’s
Baseball and Jackie Robinson at the Library of Congress
- 30 items created between the 1860s --1960s, including manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and books.
- Narrative information drawn from encyclopedia articles, published biographies, and baseball histories established the context for understanding the original materials.
- Information covers Jackie Robinson, breaking the “color line”, Negro Leagues
African American Images (from the New York Public Library)
- Almost three thousand images of African American life
- Searchable by name, subject, and library
- Photographs – black and white; color;
Digitized Collections at Fayetteville State University, North Carolina
- special collection chronicling the history of Fayetteville State University
- includes yearbooks, programs, brochures, fraternities and sororities, class pictures, campus buildings, college catalogs, founding fathers, sports teams, etc.
Documenting the American South (at the UNC-Chapel Hill)
- primary resources of texts, images, audio files relating to southern history, literature, and culture
- includes books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs
Emancipation Proclamation at the National Archives
- includes digitized images of the original proclamation and a transcript
- includes essay by John Hope Franklin, preliminary proclamation of 1862, and audio interview with former slave Charlie Smith
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
- profiles of African American men and women in the sciences from biochemists to zoologists
- indexed alphabetically by name or profession
- profiles include some images, photographs, and bibliographies for more information
Photographs of the 369 th Infantry and African Americans during World War I
- includes background information of the “Harlem Hellfighters” and additional informational resources
- provides digitized photographs of the 369 th Infantry division
The Schomburg Legacy at New York Public Library
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s original collection of 10,000 items now has over 5 million items that challenge the myth of black racial inferiority and document the contributions that people of African descent has made to human civilization.
- online exhibit documenting the Global Black Experience in the 21 st Century
- includes documents, photographs, images, diaries, manuscripts, artifacts, and audio-visual resources from around the world
- includes African diaspora, Ralph Bunche, and Langston Hughes, and more
Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library at Duke University
- covers late 18 th century to 19 th century American slaves
- includes digitized images of broadsides, bill of sale, correspondence regarding slaves
- transcripts provided for items to fragile to be scanned and digitized
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
- National Park Service provides a National Register of Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
- Interactive map of these historic places
- Comprehensive photographic tour of historic places
- Supplementary background information
- Bibliography and additional resources listed
Race and Slavery Petitions Project
- Searchable database of legislative and court petitions concerning slavery in the South – 1770s to 1860s.
- This website also includes “Let My People Go” theater documentary based on the petitions. Project is housed at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Department of History.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum (North Carolina state historical site)
This website provides information about the Guilford County historical site that honors Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the preparatory school, the Palmer Memorial Institute. A thorough bibliography on the life of Charlotte Hawkins Brown is also provided. There are essays, brief biographical information, and general articles on the website. Additional educational material is provided for teachers who are planning field trips to the historical site.
