Black History Resources: Internet Resources

The following sites are just some of the resources available for studying Black History:

• Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection (includes published materials and manuscripts)
• African American History Month (from the Library of Congress, with the assistance of several federal agencies)
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (the branch of the New York Public Library dedicated to the topic)
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (the newest addition to the Smithsonian Institution)
• Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (part of the Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library System)
• Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance Digital Collection
• The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research Institute (a project of Stanford University to preserve the legacy of Dr. King, including the largest collection of his papers and an encyclopedia of subjects related to his work.)
• Freedman's Bureau Online
• Museum of African-American History (Located in Boston, with a campus on Nantucket)
• Charles H. Bruce Photographs Collection (held at Northeastern University, this collection provides a visual documentation of the Black middle class of Boston in the early twentieth century)
• The Liberator (William Lloyd Garrison's antislavery newspaper, online in full image)
• Internet Archive (has many of the early works by Carter Woodson and other founders of the Black History movement.)
• Family Search African American Genealogical Resources