African American History Study Guide

This guide provides links to help you create a research strategy for African American History. Knowing which options are available allows you to quickly select those most appropriate for your topic.

To start your research, SCC Library Information Specialists suggest:

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists linked to SCC Library African American History holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each. Choose from:

• Civil War
• General
• Harlem Renaissance
• Humanities
  

Internet Links. Choose from:

• African American Studies
• Civil War
• General
• Humanities
• Religion & Philosophy
• Women

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists which are linked to SCC Library holdings & include the Call Number & availability for each.

Civil War

• Abolitionists
• African american soldiers history 19th century
• African Americans History 1863 1877
• Florida History Civil War 1861 1865 Campaigns
• Douglass Frederick 1817? 1895
• Slaves emancipation united states
• Truth Sojourner d. 1883
• United States history civil war 1861-1865
• United States history civil war African-americans
• United States 33d Infantry
  

General

• Africa
• African American
• African American Anthropologists
• African American Historians
• African American Sociologists
• African-American women --Biography
• African-American women executives --Biography
• African American Women History
• African American women social conditions
• African American women social reformers History
• African-Americans
• African-Americans Biography
• African Americans civil rights
• African Americans History
• African Americans History 1877 1964
• African Americans race identity
• African Americans relations with Africans
• African Americans Religion
• African Americans segregation
• African Americans Social life and customs
• African Americans southern states
• African Americans suffrage
• Apartheid South Africa
• Blacks
• Blacks America history
• Blacks Colonization Africa
• Blacks history
• Blacks political activity
• Blacks south africa
• Blacks united states
• Civil rights United States History.
• United states race relations

African American History Internet Links

African American Studies

• The Affirmative Action & Diversity Project (Univ. of Calif.)
• AfricaBib.org
• African American Studies (Howard Univ./Library)
• African American Web Connection
• African Studies Center (Univ. of Penn)
• BLACK Quest Power Resource Links
• Recommended African American Websites Diversity & Ethnic Studies (Susan A. Vega Garc?Iowa State)

• African Americans & the Civil War (USCWC)
• Black Americans/African Americans: Civil War
• Black Confederates
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• 54th Massachusetts (first all-black Union Regiment)
• Frederic Douglass
• History of African-Americans in the Civil War (National Park Service)
• Juneteenth World Wide Celebration
• Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913)
• Underground Railroad (PBS)

General

• African American History Through the Arts
• African American Mosaic
• African Americans in History
• Africans in America (PBS-WGBH)
• Black American/African American History (University of Louisville)
• African-American (Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites)
• DuSable Museum of African American History
• Healy, Patrick
• History of Jim Crow
  Images of African Americans From the 19th Century (New York Public Library Schromberg Center for Research in Black Culture)
• MLK Web: A Teacher's Guide to Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Web
• Powerful Days: Charles Moore's Life Magazine Photographs (Civil Rights Photography)
• Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs (VCU)
• Time Line of African American History (1852-1880)
• Time Line of African American History (1881-1900
• Time Line of African American History (1901-1925)

Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem 1900-1940: an African-American Community (N Y Public Library )
• Harlem Renaissance Guides and Directories (Looksmart)
• Harlem Renaissance Guides to the Literature (Looksmart)
• Harlem Renaissance Women (About.com)
• Harlem Renaissance - Writer Profiles & Overview (California State University, Stanislaus)
• Savoy Ballroom
• Harlem Renaissance - Writer Profiles & Overview (Paul P. Reuben)

• African American Women (About.com)
• African American Women (Duke University)
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library Schromberg Center for Research in Black Culture)
• Biographies of Notable African American Women
• Harlem Renaissance Women (About.com)

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