African Americans and the African Diaspora

"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."

"406,213 items from more than 1000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums."

"More than 150 scrapbooks comprise the core of the Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana, part of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Together, these volumes contain a diverse array of manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, artwork, clippings, and ephemera primarily related to African-American history from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries."

Newsletter items on recent projects, reviews, and other (non-peer reviewed) material.

Sound recordings and supporting materials that preserved the sounds of southern American folk, blues, and roots music in the 1930's.

Exhibit of primary source materials from the Library of Congress on topics related to Reconstruction.

Contains information on more than 35,000 slave voyages involving the forcible transport of more than 12 million Africans to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

This collection contains first-person accounts of slavery and photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Work Projects Administration (WPA).

Extensive digital collections on topics, people, and events in American history from the wide-range of Library of Congress primary resources.

Provides access to digital collections related to South Carolina cultural heritage or created by South Carolina institutions. Also includes resources to guide institutions undertaking digital library projects. Features include...

Access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes twelve thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

"The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections."

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collects documents of historical importance to the US. Collections include service records, photos, documents, and online exhibits of digitized materials from the vaults.ariety of online exhibits focusing on documents from the NARA collections. Documents include papers, letters, official documents, photographs, and posters.

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