African American-Related Research

• Slave Trade Archives Project:

Under the auspices of UNESCO, this project is one of the first international efforts to document, preserve, and digitize original archival materials and finding aids of the international trade in slaves during the 18th and 19th centuries. So far, the following countries have agreed to participate in the project: Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haïti, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938:

This collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

• Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860:

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.

• The Underground Railroad
• Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency

This electronic exhibit focuses on the depictions of slaves in Confederate currency. It is important to remember that these images were created by those who institutionalized and worked to preserve slavery, and they do not necessarily portray the slaves as they viewed themselves and their condition.

• The Civil Rights Digital Library
• The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project
• The Malcolm X Project
• Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-Ins
• Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
• Freedom Riders - Center for the Study of Southern Culture
• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
• The Black Panther Party

• African American Sheet Music 1850-1920
• The Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi
• Center for Black Music Research. Columbia College Chicago
• Harlem Renaissance Artists and Writers: This Colorado College course is not offered every year so the link may or may not show a corresponding course.
• African American Writers: A Celebration
• The Black Film Center
• Art Institute of Chicago's collection of African American art
• Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC)
• African American Artists - Archives of American Art
• African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
• Hampton University Museum
• Narratives of African American Art and Identity