Primary Sources
- Black Freedom Struggle
Primary source materials including the NAACP Papers and federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
2,300+ personal accounts of slavery and photographs of former slaves - Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Databases
Includes voyages and maps of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and an African names database
African & African American Newspapers
- African American Newspapers: The 19th CenturyIncludes Freedom's Journal, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder
- Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922Slave narratives, printed books, pamphlets and broadsides
- Black Life in America, Series 3 (1976-Today)News media database with 19,000 US and global news sources, including 400 current and historical Black publications
- Ethnic NewsWatchNewspapers, magazines, and journals from African American, Hispanic American, and Native American presses
- Oklahoma African American NewspapersView full text articles from select Oklahoma African American newspapers including the Black Dispatch, the Langston City Herald, and the Tulsa Star
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black NewspapersIncludes Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, and Pittsburgh Courier