Primary Sources

Origins of abolitionism; A slave's life; In their own words: Slave narratives; "I will be heard" Prominent abolitionists; Spreading the word; Black reisistance; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Abolutionist strategies; The Emancipation Proclamation; Thirteenth Amendment

Brown Univeristy

Library of Congress. Includes "African-American Odssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship; The Frederick Douglass Papers; Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Higholights, 1860s-1960s; Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federa Writers' Projectk 1936-1938; From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,m 1822-1909; Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860

Library of Congress

See "Historical Documents" in each part of this PBS program.

Composed under the WPA (Works Project Administration). University of Virginia

"I Have a Dream" MLK Jr 1963; "My Bondage and Freedom" Frederick Douglas 1855; "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" 1850; "The Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B. Du Bois 1903; "Up From Slavery: An Autobiography" Booker T. Washington

Yale University. Primary source documents

"A selection of 100 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from 1890s to the 1950s."

The University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors Documenting the American South, and the texts and materials come primarily from its southern holdings. The UNC University Library is committed to the long-term availability of these collections and their online records. An editorial board guides development of this digital library.

Library of Congress, American Memory. 16 African American Collections.

Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress

Library of Congress

Children's Literature; Contemporary Slavery; Legacies; News & Papers; Slave Narratives; Poetry; Prose Fiction; Proslavery Literature; Religious Literature; Tracts, Essays, Speeches; Travel Accounts; Treastises & General Literature; Videos & Podcasts

Quintard Taylor. Quintard Taylor Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History | The University of Washington, Seattle

Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (post Civil War)

“The Negro traveler's inconveniences,” writes Wendell P. Alston in The Negro Motorist Green Book for 1949, “are many and they are increasing because today so many more are traveling, individually and in groups. . The GREEN BOOK with its list of hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, beauty shops, barber shops and various other services can most certainly help solve your travel problems. It was the idea of Victor H. Green, the publisher, in introducing the Green Book, to save the travelers of his race as many difficulties and embarrassments as possible.”

Emory University. "Information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries."

"The Who Speaks for the Negro? website is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965. The original materials are held at the University of Kentucky and Yale University Libraries.

Michigan State University Libraries. Amazing resource of primary sources.

Michigan State University Libraries. Valuable primary source documents.

Michigan State Unversity. Primary source documents.

Swarthmore College

Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ReadingRoom, Library of Congress)

Includes Speeches, Photographs, more

"The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races," W.E. Du Bois, was the house magazine of the recently formed NAACP. Peak of 100,000 educated African-American readers. All available here. Brown University & The University of Tulsa.

(Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)

Dr. Martin Luther King's life and philosophy. Digital archives.

Library of Congress with Quincy University for Black History Month

The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive includes a selection of digitized photographs, letters, diaries, and other documents. Oral history transcripts are also available, as well as finding aids for manuscript collections.

UMBC, CADVC, Smithsonian, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities

Excellent Guide from Marist University. Arranged Chronologically, Alphabetically, Regionally. Covers: Antebellum & Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age, Pre-WWI, WWI & WWII, 20th & 21st Centuries

The Archives of the Afro-American Newspapers

Ebony Magazine, 1950-1990, including advertising