• Chicago Tribune, Jelly Roll Morton

• Library of Congress, American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  For sound, limit search to "Sound Recordings."

  • Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

• Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress, Save Our Sounds
  Includes Langston Hughes reading "A Negro Speaks of Rivers."

• Library of Congress, American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

  • African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
    Full text of 351 titles with some page images.

  • From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection
    Full text of 397 pamphlets with page images.

  • The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society

• National Archives and Records Administration

  • NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)

• New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  • African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
    Digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers.

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Documenting the American South

  • The Church in the Southern Black Community, Beginnings to 1920

  • North American Slave Narratives

• University of Southern Mississippi, Civil Rights in Mississippi
  Includes transcripts of oral histories.

• Archbishop Carroll High School, African American Studies

Major Research Centers in African American Studies

• Duke University, John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation

• Howard University, Moorland Spingarn Research Center

• Library of Congress, American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

  • African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

  • The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

• University of Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies

Gateways

• University of California, Santa Barbara, Black Studies

• University of Kansas, WWW-VL: History: US: African-American

• University of Wisconsin, Afro-American Studies on the Web

• Internet resources are being cataloged in WorldCat, a subscription database accessible off-campus to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students through MdUSA [UM Database Gateway]. To identify web resources cataloged in WorldCat, select "Internet Resources" on the WorldCat search screen .

• Association of Research Libraries, Digital Initiatives Database
  Information on digital projects in the humanities and other subjects.

• Elna L. Saxton, "African American Culture: Some Sites You Should Bookmark," College and Research Libraries News, 60 (1999), 9-12. The full text of this article is available in Library Literature, a subscription database accessible off-campus to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students through MdUSA [UM Database Gateway].

• Thomas Weissinger, "Defining Black Studies on the World Wide Web," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25 (1999), 288-93. The full text of this article is available in Library Literature, a subscription database accessible off-campus to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students through MdUSA [UM Database Gateway].

Eric N. Lindquist, EL69@umail.umd.edu is a librarian specializing in history and American Studies and a member of the Arts and Humanities Team, University of Mayland Libraries.

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