Black Studies Research Guide

A freely available guide leading to Africa-related material on the internet. Maintained by The Nordic Africa Institute, it is a research-oriented link collection, which is divided into country and subject resources.

The Black Film Center/Archive was established in 1981 as the first archival repository dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films by and about black people.

The voice of the African-American Community in Chicago.

One of the most important Black newspapers in the country one of the most influential Black-owned and -operated media businesses in the nation.

Nebraska's only black weekly newspaper. Full text not on the website but available in the library on microfilm.

From the Wisconsin Historical Society. Brief descriptions and links to original documents created by CORE, SNCC, COFO, local residents, volunteers and opponents.

Links to people and key events in African American history.

From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. This website from PBS offers a gateway to several online compilations of these narratives.

From Duke University, a selection of 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.​

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. Now open in Washington, D.C.

Sponsored by Emory U, the N.E.H., and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the 16th and 17th centuries.

Legal Information Institute, organized by Cornell Law School, is a non-profit public service that provides no-cost access to current American and international legal research sources online.

Since its establishment in 1971, Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have joined together to empower America’s neglected citizens and address their legislative concerns.

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Established as an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding federal agency, their mission is to inform the development of national civil rights policy and enhance enforcement of federal civil rights laws.

The division in the Department of State focused on the development and management of U.S. policy concerning Africa.

Census Bureau data and publications on race.