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Marist College has created a "Library Pathfinder" listing more than 65 Historical African American Newspapers available online.  Most entries are freely available, with just a handful of ( Read more... )

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Africans in Chicago Oral History Project NOW online

The United African Organization (UAO) is a Chicago-based coalition of African community-based associations dedicated to social and economic justice, civic participation, and empowerment of African immigrants and refugees in Illinois. UAO has just ( Read more... )

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Library, Smithsonian Launch Civil Rights History Project Website

The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress and
the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American
History and Culture (NMAAHC) have launched The Civil Rights History
Project at www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/.

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W.E.B. Du Bois Papers
http://credo.library.umass.edu/

The University of Massachussetts - Amherst Libbraries Department of Speical Collections will make more than 40,000 digital objects from the Du Bois Papers available, with the remaining 60,000 items to follow in the next two years. The Library is planning a launch celebration for October 27, 2011 ( Read more... )

http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/archives/blues_photographs.php

The University of Mississippi Libraries / Archives & special Collections maintains a searchable online archive of photographs of Blues musicians. You can search by artist name, location, role (for example, harmonica players or saxophonists), or by photographer.

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In celebration of Black History Month, Southern Cultures permanently has dedicated new webspace to all of our essays and features from the last decade on AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE. For classrooms around the world, this material includes interviews with many famous figures (and lesser known ones, too), as well as material which ( Read more... )