African-American Studies

Article Databases

Africa-Wide NiPAD: Provides combined access to NISC African Studies and NISC South African Studies, the catalogs of key African studies libraries around the world. Covers economics, history, development, politics, music, business, literature, etc. from 19th Century to the present. Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.
Black Literature Index: (Index to black periodical literature, 1827-1940, on CD-ROM available in YRL Reference Electronic Resource Area)
Black Studies Database: (Indexes journals, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and reports relevant to the black experience from 1948-1986)
Ethnic NewsWatch: (A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic minority and native press published in the US)
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text): (Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs.)

African American Links (Cornell University)
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (University of North Carolina)
SpectraLinks

African American Research Perspectives
The Black World Today
Callaloo

Ethnic NewsWatch: (A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic minority and native press published in the US)

QBR: The Black Book Review Online
The Western Journal of Black Studies

African American Biographical Database: (Full text, with illustrations, of more than 40,000 biographies, 1790-1950)
African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
African American Warriors
Afrigeneas -- African American Geneology
Amistad Research Center
Anacostia Museum

Malcolm X: A Research Site (Africana Studies Program, University of Toledo)
National Civil Rights Museum
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text): (Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs.)
Yahoo!'s African American Studies Page

African American Art - Wilson Brown Gallery
Archives of African American Music and Culture

Black Film Center/Archive (Indiana University)
California Newsreel
Center for Black Music Research (Columbia College, Chicago)

Literature Online (Lion): (Fully searchable texts of over 250,000 works in English and American literature)

African American Pamphlets Home Page
Afro-American Sources in Virgina : A Guide to Manuscripts
American Slave Narratives : An Online Anthology
Digital Schomburg: (NYPL Digital Library Collections)
The Digital Scriptorium Special Collections Library, Duke University: (Contains several documents related to African-American history, and the John Hope Franklin Research Center)
Documenting The American South: (Includes "Narratives on Slavery" Section)
Frederick Douglass Papers at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis: (Project to collect, edit, and publish his principle speeches, interviews, essays, newspaper editorials, and autobiographical writings)
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress: (Online access to the Douglass Papers held in the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division)
Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina (University Press of Virginia)
Malcolm X: A Research Site
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries (University of Wisconsin, Data and Program Library Service)

YRL Research and Instructional Services Department: (Maps, cartographic information, census and other government publications, and non-governmental materials in the broadly defined area of "public affairs")

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Miki Goral, Librarian, (miki@library.ucla.edu)
Last updated: May 3, 2006