African American Studies Databases
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South African produced index including journals, books, and documents covering Africa and African studies. Content includes the Index to South African Periodicals, IBISCUS, Africa Institute Database, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT, from the National Library of Namibia.
Military documents, letters, court records, and more from the 17th -20th centuries pertaining to African Americans.
Pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports, and in-depth oral histories covering the experiences of African Americans. Focuses on themes of racism, discrimination and integration, and African American culture and identity primarily in the communities of Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina from 1863-1986.
African American newspapers published during the 1800s; includes full page image content.
African American newspapers published in the United States between 1827 and 1998.
Original documents of the African American Police League Records, 1961—1988.
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Index of African-published journals covering agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences.
Articles, books and more covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada
For access to Series 2-5, select title above, go to Choose Databases link, change selected series, and choose OK.
Archival collection from the American Antiquarian Society of magazines and journals in five series: Series I: 1691 -1820; Series II: 1821-1837; Series III: 1838-1852; Series IV: 1852-1865; Series V: 1866 through 1877.
Full-page images scan of this influential African American newspaper, from 1932 to 2010
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News content from U.S. and global news sources, including African American publications, covering topics such as voting rights, voter suppression and disenfranchisement, segregation and civil rights, prejudice, discrimination, activism and protest movements.
Scholarly essays, articles, historical newspaper articles, related to Black Studies, from fields such as literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.
Primary and secondary non-fiction writings, speeches, interviews, trials and other materials by black Americans.
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Newspapers published throughout the Caribbean between 1718 and 1876.
Searchable full page images of this influential African American newspaper, covering years 1905-2010
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National, regional, and local newspapers published around the 1920s in the United States, documenting the voices of multiple organizations that either opposed or supported white supremacy and nationalism.
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Books related to the Caribbean region.
Newspapers, magazines, and journals that focus on ethnic studies, indigenous peoples, and the presses from a diverse range of multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural perspectives; included in the TDM Studio text visualization dashboard; please see the
ProQuest TDM Studio guide for access information.
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Primary resources including Federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers related to critical people and events in African American history, through the 20th century.
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Open access alternative press and underground newspapers, magazines and journals from the 1960s to 1980s, including feminist, LGBT, minority, campus, community, GI, right-wing, and small literary presses.
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Searchable full-text version of The Liberator, an antebellum, anti-slavery newspaper published in chronological parts. Published in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Lloyd Garrison.
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Full-page images scan of this influential African American newspaper, from 1922 to 2010
News, business, and legal sources covering world news and companies, and including U.S. Supreme Court decisions, state, federal and international law, regulations, and law reviews.
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Full-page images scan of this influential African American newspaper, from 1911 to 2010
Search portal for multiple ProQuest databases in design, film, art, music, theater, and humanities.
Search portal for multiple ProQuest databases, including Periodicals Archive Online, Humanities Index, American Periodicals 174-1940, digital National Security Archive, and others.
Search portal for multiple ProQuest databases in political science, education, sociology, psychology, public affairs, linguistics, economics, and criminal justice.
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Index and abstracts to articles covering race relations, ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and more.
Based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict.
Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.
Search across Readex databases, with content from historical newspapers, early American books, pamphlets, congressional documents and other governmental publications, on numerous subjects.
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Archival collection covering slavery from 1490-2007; focus areas include the African Coast, Underground Railroad, abolition, desegregation and more. Includes content from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Abstracts and indexing of journal literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/policy.