Africana Studies  Tags: black africana african-american  

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The African Activist Archive

Organizations

Africa Action Promoting activism for Africa since 1953

Association for the Study of African American life and History Founders of Black History Month.

NAACP Celebrating its 100th birthday in 2009.

Primary Texts

African Activist Archive Project Preserves records and memories of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s. Includes political buttons, posters, tee shirts, and other media.

African American Poetry, 1760-1900 2,500 poems written by African-Americans Based on William French's bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975. W&M users only.

African American Women Digitized collections from the Duke University Library. Includes scanned pages from manuscripts and published works by African American women.

African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century. A digital exhibit from the New York Public Library's Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. 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.

African Poster Collection from the Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University.

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record Contains over 1,200 images documenting the experiences of Africans enslaved and transported to the Americas

Documenting the American South Provides texts, images, and audio for the study of Southern history, literature, and culture.

Electronic Texts Works of African American literature digitized by the University of Virginia's E-Text Center.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History and Culture

Harlem: 1900-1940 A digital exhibit from the New York Public Library's Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Historical Maps of Africa Detailed images from the University of Texas at Austin.

Images of African Americans in the Nineteenth Century  A digital exhibit from the New York Public Library's Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Five hundred prints, photographs and illustrations present sixteen topical chapters such as "Cultural Expression," "Family," "Organizations & Institutions," "Portraits" and "Religion."

In Motion: The African American Migration Experience "A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Great Migration, from the Western migration to the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Includes 25,000 pages of texts, rare visual materials, maps, contemporary photojournalism, and lesson plans."

Library of Congress American Memory Includes a collection on African American history, including slave narratives conducted during the Federal Writers Project.

Making of the Modern World Digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. A useful source for information on the Atlantic slave trade. W&M users only.

Special Collections Research Center Located on the first floor of Swem Library, the SCRC contains collections of rare books, manuscripts, and the College of William and Mary Archives.

Country Information

Africa South of the Sahara A great directory of links assembled by the Stanford University Library.

Background Notes Information from the U.S. State Department