Libguides African American Studies Primary Sources Home

African-American Experience (CDROM)Call Number: E185 .A2542 RESERVEFully indexed and searchable collection of primary source documents and pictures covering African-American history.Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (CDROM)Call Number: HT1322 .T74 ERCContains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages... Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships'characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage. Abolition & Emancipation Call Number: E 449.A14 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title with reference from individual authors Guide: Detailed listing and brief biographies Guides for parts 1-6 American Civil Liberties Union Archives, 1950-1990... Barnett papers Call Number: PN4882.5 .B37 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title with contents notes Guide: Printed guide Pts. 1 & 2: Associated Negro Press papers, Pt.

3 Subject file on "black Americans" Commission on Interracial Cooperation Papers, 1919-1944 Call Number: HV6457 .A882 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title Guide: Printed guide Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977: papers, 1966-1978 Call Number: E... Goldsmiths'-Kress Colonies Call Number: JV420 .C64 1995 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title only Guide: Printed guide; Online information and guide The Colonies subset of Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature. Contains material in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish. Inward Slave Manifests, 1807-1860 (Port of New Orleans, LA) Call Number: HJ6637 .L5 U5 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title Guide: Printed guide; Online information New York Age Call Number: E 185.5 N52 microfilm... DuBois Call Number: Z 6616.D8A2 microfilm Library Catalog Access: author,title,subjects Guide: Printed guide gives detailed descriptions of reels' contents.. Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks Series I: Petitions to Southern Legislatures Call Number: E441 .R27 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title with contents notes Guide: Guide, series 1 pt.

1: petitions to southern legislatures, 1777-1867 Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War A-D, F-J (incomplete) Call Number: F 213.R42 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title with contents Guide:... 1-3 only Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992; part 1 Call Number: HS 2259.N37R42 1992 microfilm Library Catalog Access: author and title entries Guide: Printed guide includes historical background, a... Registers & Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands 1865-72 Call Number: E 185.2.A4 microfilm Library Catalog Access: series title Guide: Introductory information and contents on reel... State Slavery Statutes Call Number: KF 4545.S5 A127 microfiche Library Catalog Access: series title only Guide: Comprehensive contents arranged by state and subject, name, and geographic indexes.(565 pp.) Wilberforce--slavery, religion and politics Call Number:... 2 only Below is a list of topics to discover on this page.

Scroll to view each section and the databases therein or select a link to be taken directly to the section on the page. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture This University of Virginia site explores the effects of this work on American culture Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress "This collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as unpublished typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until a manuscript curator rediscovered them in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection... The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her knowledge of folklore in the African-American South. Totaling 1,068 images, most of the scripts are housed in the Library's Manuscript Division with one each in the Music and in the Rare Book and Special Collections Divisions.

There are four sketches and six full length plays in this group. Previously known mainly for her fiction and autobiography, Hurston here reveals her high ambitions as a dramatist." Sometimes collections of primary source documents are republished in books. To find books like these, search WPI Library Search for books about your topic and add keywords like sourcebook, documents, primary sources, documentary history, papers, letters, journal, diary, memoir, or autobiography to your search... You can also search for books written by the people you are studying. Search full text and images 1851-2021 including news, illustrations, editorials, and advertisements.

Coverage: 1851-2021Full Text: YesSearch Tips Online archive of eBooks and complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Coverage: 1800s-Full Text: YesTitles Included | Search Tips Online encyclopedia of African-American history. Features thousands of cross-referenced entries, covering the entire spectrum of African-American history over the past 500 years. Online encyclopedia of African American music.

Contains text and liner notes that offer the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Primary source documents covering migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent, with a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France. Welcome to the Guide on African-American Studies! This selection of specialized resources is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list. Also available are guides to resources in American History and Researching African American Genealogy.

Primary Sources are firsthand accounts that document events, individuals, experiences, and time periods. Examples of primary sources include: newspaper articles, interviews and transcripts, speeches, letters, diaries, photographs & research data Primary vs. Secondary Sources via Minnesota History Youtube Channel Description: Newspaper collection from ProQuest containing full text of the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.. Includes materials from 1934-2005.

Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources A primary source is "material that contains firsthand accounts of events and that was created contemporaneous to those events or later recalled by an eyewitness" (Dictionary of Archives Terminology). Letters, diaries, autobiographies, photographs, oral histories, government documents, literary works, speeches, slave narratives, and, in some cases, newspaper articles are just some examples of primary sources. Primary sources are first-hand or contemporary accounts of an event or topic. They enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during a historical event or time period. Secondary sources add interpretation, analysis, or commentary to an event or phenomenon covered by primary sources.

People Also Search

• LibGuides: African-American Studies: Primary Sources
• LibGuides: African American Studies (Primary Sources): Home
• Research Guides: African American Studies *: Primary Sources
• Guides: African American Studies: Primary Sources & Data Resources
• Primary Sources - African and African-American Studies - LibGuides at ...
• Research Guides: Africana Studies: Primary Sources
• Home - African-American Studies - LibGuides at Rice University
• LibGuides: African American Studies: Primary Sources
• LibGuides: African American Studies: Primary sources and archives
• Primary Sources - Black / African American Studies Library Resource ...