African American Studies Journals & Indexes | Web Resources | Research Sets |Reference Works | Bates African American Studies Program | Librarian Full Text Journals & Indexes       International Index of Black Periodicals ABOUT     Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial times to the Present contains 912 full text sources from 741 authors including the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.   Academic Search Premier ABOUT       Alternative Press Index ABOUT     Oxford African American Studies Center combines biographies, images, primary sources, and bibliographies under one search and browse interface.   America:History and Life ABOUT       SocINDEX ABOUT     Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History A new 6 vol. work on all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day.   PAIS International ABOUT     Multi-Database Search : American Studies Web Resources African American Studies (Howard University) Wonderful compilation of many sites from Affirmative Action to Videos. Academic Info: African American History This is part of Academic Info a directory of internet resources tailored to a college audience with annotated listings of the best general interest sites in the field Maine Black History Resources This is a remarkable compilation on the history in this state. African American Electronic Texts A compilation from the University of Delaware Library of electronic documents from various eras. African American History Collections Primary source materials from the remarkable Library of Congress American Memory digitization project including slave narratives, papers of Frederick Douglass, and African American pamphlets from the 1800's. BlackPast.org University of Washington, Seattle pulls together most of the major digitized archival holdings in African American history into one site. Documenting the American South A collection of hundreds of full-text sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice A website and report about the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture A searchable compilation of pre-text cultural background to, the text of, and responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin and its place in American culture. The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University This project aims to provide a comprehensive biography of Malcolm X and multimedia research aids. The work is ongoing, so resources are added continually. Indiana University, Bloomington self described as "one of the most vital Black Studies academic units in the country." Check out their Archive of African American Music and Culture site or their Black Film Center/Archive African Studies WWW University of Pennsylvannia's well-structured site Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges. Research Sets Black Journals University Publications of American Two series of important 19th and early 20th century periodicals. The Black Women Oral History Project, 66 interviews in 11 volumes, from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College E185.86 .B545 1990 Conrad/Tubman Collection The Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman Collection, consisting of approximately 3,500 items, represents the results of several years of research by historian-journalist Earl Conrad into the life and activities of Harriet Tubman. Carter G. Woodson collection of Negro papers and related documents Papers of Whitefield McKinlay, Carter G. Woodson, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, and John T. Clark Daniel Murray pamphlet collection, 1818-1907 (we own on film, but you can also go to the African American Perspectives web site to view the same collection. FBI Files on the Black Panther Party, National Negro Congress and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Marcus Garvey; F.B.I. investigation file plus the web site Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Project The Papers of W.E.B. Du Bois, 89 microfilm reels and a guide John Preston Davis Papers, 2 microfilm reels Pittsburgh Courier (May 1941-June 1947), microfilm This is an African American edited paper for which Benjamin Mays '20 was a weekly columnist. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: a database on CD-ROM Audio CD-ROMS HT 1322.T74 1999 Reference Works Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619 - 1895 Reference E 185.E545 2006, 3vols. Africana:The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience Reference DT 14.A37435 2005, 5vols. Index to the American Slave: a composite autobiography Reference E 441.A58 (all volumes indexed are available in the stacks) Encyclopedia of Black Studies Reference E 185.E554 2005 African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture Govt Reference LC 1.6/4:AF 8 Exhibition based on the book online. African-American almanac Reference E185.5 .N34 2000 Black women in America, 2nd edition Reference E185.86 .B542 2005, 3 vols Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History Reference E185 E54 2006, 6 vols, print and online Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America Reference E185.61 .E544 1998, 3 vols Harlem Renaissance Reference PS 153 .N5 H245 2003, 3 vols Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore Reference GR 111.A47 G74 2006, 3 vols Encyclopedia of African American Business Reference HD 2358.U6E53 2006, 2 vols. earlier edition online State of Black America E185.5 .N317, 1980 - Statistical record of Black America Reference E185.5 .S83 1990 Black Facts Online Searchable database of people, places and events. Library contact: For more information, contact: LAURA JURASKA Associate Librarian for Reference Services 207-786-8324 e-mail: ljuraska AT bates.edu The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College 48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240 (207) 786-6263

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