African and African American Studies Research Guide

• Academic Search Complete
• Africabib
• African American Newspapers (NewsBank)
  
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
• Alternative Press Index. 1969 - PCL Ref AI 3 A27
• ALT-Press Watch
• America: History and Life
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (CWLD)
• Black Drama
• Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
• ERIC
• EthnicNewsWatch
• Historical Abstracts
• Index to Black Periodicals. 1984- . PCL Ref AI 3 O4 Coverage extends back to 1950, under its previous title, Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks.
• International Index to Black Periodicals
• LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
• MLA International Bibliography
• Oxford African American Studies Center
• PAIS International - Web Access
• Reader's Guide Retrospective
• Sociological Abstracts

Online Encyclopedias:
Oxford African American Studies Center (UT Austin users)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (UT Austin users)

Print Encyclopedias:

100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia.

ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement

African American Almanac: a Reference Work on the Afro-American
PCL Ref E 185 N385 2000.

Africana: the Encyclopedia of Africa and African Americans.

Almanac of African American Heritage.

Almanac of African Peoples and Nations.

Best Literature by and about Blacks.

Black Firsts: 2,000 Years of Extraordinary Achievement

Black Women in America

Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present

Civil rights in the United States.

The concise Oxford companion to African American literature.

Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery

Distinguished African American Political and Governmental leaders

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

Encyclopedia of African and African-American religions.

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

The Harvard guide to African-American history

Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery

Historical Guide to World Slavery

Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang

The New York public library African American desk reference.

Organizing Black America : an encyclopedia of African American associations.

Africabib
"Africabib was created in 1999 as a way to disseminate information from two African studies databases as well as information on Africa from other sources."

African-American Migration Experience

African American Mosaic
Library of Congress resource guide to its African-American collection.

American Slave Narratives
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
Included are footnoted entries from archival and secondary source documents with links to full text Internet sites.

From slavery to Freedom The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Online primary sources by important black writers such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

H-AFRESEARCH
Electronic discussion network on the use of primary sources in African humanities and social sciences.

NAACP
Home page of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture
This site by the National Park Service includes online tours on topics such as The Underground Railroad to provide information on African American heritage.

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomberg Center is "devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world."

Voices of Civil Rights

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research
"The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans."