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African American History :: Online Resources & Collections

African-American school in Kentucky, 1916 by Lewis Hine.

Featured eBooks

Freedom Journey: Black Civil War soldiers and the Hills Community

To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace

Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy

For a Voice and the Vote: My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Featured Digital Reference Materials

Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience

The African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence

Milestone Documents in African American History

Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America

The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States