Databases

• African American Biographical Database
  Provides biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source.
• Alt Press-Watch
  Alt-Press Watch is a full text database of 170 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
• America History and Life
  Covers research on American and Canadian history and culture.
• American National Biography
  Contains full-text biographical information on more than 17,000 people and includes a special collection for Black History.
• Anthropology Plus
  Indexes more than 3,000 journal articles in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
• Biography Resource Center
  Contains full-text biographical information on more than 250,000 people from throughout history, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Black Studies Center
  Comprised of several databases including the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals, the full text of the Chicago Defender 1910-1975 an influential black newspaper, and Black Literature Index
• Black Literature Index
  Includes more than 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
• International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
  Includes over 181,000 bibliographic citations and abstracts in the humanities from popular and scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean; and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  Provides full text articles from newspapers and magazines published for ethnic communities in the U.S.
• Literature Online (LION)
  Contains the full text of 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century.  Also includes citations for scholarly books, articles, and reviews; author biographies; Web site links; multimedia clips; and eight reference texts.
• PAIS International
  Covers current events, public policy issues, and the social sciences in general, including economic and social conditions, and government and politics.
• Sociological Abstracts
  Indexes over 2000 journals in sociology and related disciplines.

Web Sites

• African American History - University of Washington Libraries
• African American History and Culture - Smithsonian Institution
• Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century- New York Public Library
• African American World - PBS
• African Americans - U.S. Department of State
• Africans in America - PBS
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History
• The Black Collegian Online
• Black Members of the United States Congress: 1870 - 2004
• BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed
• The Black Population in the United States - U.S. Census Bureau
• Black Studies - City College of New York Libraries
• The Booker T. Washington Papers - University of Illinois Press
• Brown@50 - Fulfilling the Promise - Howard University School of Law
• The Church in the Southern Black Community - University of North Carolina
• The Dred Scott Case - Washington University Libraries
• The Emancipation Proclamation - National Archives & Records Administration
• Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History
• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
• Facts for Features: African American History Month - U.S. Census Bureau
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance
• Jazz Research Portal - University of North Texas Music Library
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Legends of Tuskegee: Booker T. Washington, the Tuskegee Airmen, George Washington Carver
• Library of Congress sites
  • The African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
  • The African American Odyssey: The Quest for Full Citizenship
  • American Memory from the Library of Congress: African American History
    16 searchable collections
• Malcolm X: a Research Site
• NAACP
• National Urban League
• The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Stanford University
• Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches - American Public Media
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library
• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights