African American Studies: Digital & Archival Collections

Many of the links to websites on this page were compiled by Dr. Joan Bryant, African American Studies for Syracuse community members.

• Africana Age - Schomburg Library- NYPL
   
• Black American West Museum
   
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
   
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans

• Civil War Washington

• Colored Conventions

• Historical African American Newspapers available online - Marist College

• I will be Heard: Abolitionism in America - Cornell University

• The Geography of Slavery

• In Motion: the African American Migration Experience

• Malcolm X Project at Columbia University

• Muhammed Speaks (Vintage digital copies of Nation of Islam newspaper)

• The Church in the Southern Black Community

• African American Involvement in the Vietnam War

• North American Slavery Narratives

• Born in Slavery

• Voyages: Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Visualizing Emancipation

• University of Virginia Library - WSLS-TV (Roanoke, VA) News Film Collection, 1951 to 1971
   
• Unpublished Black History:Unpublished Photos from the New York Times Archives
   
• Rosa Parks Papers - Library of Congress
   
• National Museum of African American History and Culture - Smithsonian

Black Past.org
an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet.(website)