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Covers more than 500 years of African-American history. Find information on leaders, events, social movements, issues, the arts, sports, religion, and daily life from Facts on File books. Includes biographies, timelines, historical documents, images, maps, charts, and web links.
Browse African-Americans, or click on Person Search to search for individuals by occupation, nationality, ethnicity, and gender.
Check the box to search Biography Reference Bank. Search by name, profession or activity and gender. This large database includes the reference book series Current Biography, published since 1940.
Cleveland’s long-time African-American newspaper offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Choose African-American Archives from the drop-down menu at the top. Find original historical documents and photographs that highlight individuals and events throughout U.S. History.
A collection of key reference books for multidisciplinary research. Search by search term. Titles:
Search for individuals in Freedman’s Bank (1865 – 1874), which was founded to serve African-Americans and contains a wealth of genealogical information.
Perform a Quick Search for “African American” and then refine your results by subject. Or search one of these reference books individually:
Search this historically signifcant publication for regional perspectives and reporting on the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, politics, local people, and more. Provides access to digital reprodutions of full page and article images from every available issue, with searchable full text.
Search for “African American” to find hundreds of encyclopedia articles, primary sources, back-in-time articles, special reports, pictures, websites, and more.
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Explore an interactive timeline of milestones throughout slavery and the Civil Rights Movement. Features: videos, games, photos and speeches.
AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African-American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general.
(from the Ohio Historical Society) This digital collection illuminates specific moments in the history of Ohio's African-Americans and provides an overview of their experiences in the words of the people that lived them. Sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets. Search by subject heading, media type, and/or keyword.
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