- African American Studies Minor at Bridgewater State UniversityAn interdisciplinary field that focuses on the experiences, history and cultural productions of people of African descent in the United States.
- Amistad Research CenterAmistad Research Center is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.
- Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections Search form Search this siteThe Archives and Special Collections Department of Dickinson College serves variously as an educational, cultural, and institutional resource, providing access to an array of research materials while at the same time offering exhibitions of select holdings. The department houses valuable collections of rare books, personal papers, photographs, artifacts, and college records. Materials range as far back as the
Medieval Period, though the bulk of the materials date from 1780 through to the present. A great resource on finding primary resources on Esther Popel Shaw. - The King CenterEstablished in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century. Includes Digital Archive containing nearly a millions documents associated with the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- National Association of African American StudiesThis site includes links to conference papers in NAAAS Monograph Series as well as job postings and articles from affiliate associations: the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, the National Association of Native American Studies, and the International Association of Asian Studies.
- National Museum of African American History & CultureLocated in Washington, D.C., NMAAHC is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureThe Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture located in Harlem, New York, is a research unit of The New York Public Library system. It is recognized as one of the leading institutions focusing exclusively on African-American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
- DuSable Museum of African American HistoryThe DuSable Museum promotes understanding and inspires appreciation of the achievements, contributions, and experiences of African Americans through exhibits, programs, and activities that illustrate African and African American history, culture and art.
- Museum of the African DiasporaLocated in San Francisco, MoAD invites everyone to engage in the cultural expression of the African Diaspora through contemporary art.
- National Black Arts FestivalA nonprofit organization with a legacy of providing stellar artistic and educational programs in music, dance, film, visual arts, theater and the literary arts.
- National Center of Afro-American ArtistsA private, not-for-profit institution committed to preserving and fostering the cultural arts heritage of black peoples worldwide through arts teaching, and the presentation of professional works in all fine arts disciplines.
- National Gallery of Art : Collection Highlights : African American ArtistsIncludes works by Joshua Johnson, Robert Seldon Duncanson, Aaron Douglas, Alma Thomas, and more.
- Africana & Black HistoryNew York Public Library digital collection. Several thousand items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
- Black Film Center/ArchiveThe Black Film Center/Archive was established in 1981 as the first archival repository dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films by and about black people.
- Black Heritage Trail, BostonWalking trail in historic downtown Boston; includes including Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial. Guided walking tours in Nantucket leave from the Whaling Museum and end at the African Meeting House.
- Civil Rights Digital LibraryPromotes an enhanced understanding of the Civil Rights Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.
- From Slavery to Freedom : The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909Presents 396 pamphlets from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.
- Images of African Americans in the 19th CenturyNew York Public Library digital collection. Five hundred prints, photographs and illustrations present sixteen topical chapters such as "Cultural Expression," "Family," "Organizations & Institutions," "Portraits" and "Religion."
- Museum of African American HistoryDedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century. The Abiel Smith School and African Meeting House are located in Beacon Hill, Boston.
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade DatabaseInformation on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- U.S. National Archives: African American HeritageThe Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the African American experience, and highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.
- We Shall Overcome : Historic Places of the Civil Rights MovementIncludes 49 places listed in the National Register for their association with the modern civil rights movement, as well as the Selma-to-Montgomery March route--a Department of Transportation designated "All-American Road" and a National Park Service designated National Historic Trail.
- The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of CongressPresents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
- Rosa Parks Papers at the Library of CongressDocuments many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans
- W.E.B. Du Bois Papers at University of Massachusetts, AmherstIncludes over 100,000 items of correspondence (more than three quarters of the papers), speeches, articles, newspaper columns, nonfiction books, research materials, book reviews, pamphlets and leaflets, petitions, novels, essays, forewords, student papers, manuscripts of pageants, plays, short stories and fables, poetry, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, videotapes, audiotapes, and miscellaneous materials.
- African American Literature Book Club : Major Book Awards and Awards that Celebrate Writers of African DescentIncludes Coretta Scott King Award, Phillis Wheatley Book Award, NAACP Image Awards, and more.
- African American Women Writers of the 19th CenturyNew York Public Library digital collection. Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives, and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises.
- An Introduction to the Harlem RenaissanceTracing the poetic work of this crucial cultural and artistic movement.
- Poetry and the Civil Rights MovementThe struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text CollectionE-text of a selected group of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry, as well as an image gallery and bibliography of selected resources.
- Zora Neale Hurston Digital ArchiveOnline repository of bibliographical, critical, and contextual materials related to Zora Neale Hurston's life and work.
- Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of CongressThis collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist.
- U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith: Online ResourcesSelected online resources related to Tracy K. Smith's life and work.
- African American sheet music from the John Hay Library at Brown UniversityThis collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920.
- Archives of African American Music and CultureIncludes materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions primarily from the post-World War II era. Collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop. The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of black radio.
- NOLA Hiphop and Bounce Archive (Tulane University Digital Library)Documents the lively and unique sound of New Orleans hip-hop. This digital collection contains video interviews with leading hiphop and bounce artists in New Orleans, including rappers, DJs, producers, and record store owners.
- William P. Gottlieb : Photographs from the Golden Age of JazzThe collection is an important contribution to the documentation of American culture during a time when jazz music thrived. Gottlieb's photographs are perhaps the most widely reproduced images of jazz musicians, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter.
- The GrioTheGrio.com, owned by Entertainment Studios LLC, is the first video-centric news community site devoted to African-American stories and perspectives.
- HuffPost Black VoicesFeatures black news, entertainment, style, and culture.
- PBS Independent Lens: African American Documentary FilmsTelevision's largest showcase of independent documentary film.
- The RootAfrican-American focused online magazine founded by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald E. Graham in 2008; features news, opinion, politics, and culture. Publishes the Root 100, an annual list of the most important black influencers between the ages of 25 and 45.