This website is a free, searchable directory for online history projects that can help further Black history research.

New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Links to books, periodicals, images, maps, and more.

A list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google.

More than 1,300 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

More than 12,000 printed books, pamphlets and broadsides recording African American history, literature and culture from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

More than 550 works by authors of African or African-American descent. Includes personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems and musical compositions.

Provides access to approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. It also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Covers the diverse history of Caribbean islands over nearly 400 years. Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

Many primary sources are reprinted in book form. Try using these keywords with your topic: correspondence, diaries, interviews, papers, "personal narratives" (with the quotation marks so it searches as a phrase).

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Search historical records for African Americans that include the Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank, and more.

Digital reproductions of organizational and personal papers and federal government records, including the papers of Mary McLeod Bethune and Claude A. Barnett, records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, government records on African-Americans in the military, black workers in the era of the Great Migration, files on surveillance of African-Americans, and FBI Files.

Documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.

Includes hearings (1824-present); CRS Reports (1916-present); House and Senate Documents/Reports (Serial Set; 1817-present); legislative histories (1969-present); bills and laws (1776-present); miscellaneous publications including GAO, CBO, the American State Papers, the House and Senate Journals (1789-present); vote reports (1987-present); maps (1789-2007); Congressional Record (1789-present); executive branch (1789-1932); and presidential materials such as executive orders (1789-present). Many of these are full text.

Documents on Anglo-American trials including published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and other trial documents; official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions; and books and pamphlets about specific trials.

Brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including more than 1,000 books and pamphlets.

Books and manuscripts drawn principally from the Law Library and Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Includes an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. Most of the items date from the nineteenth century.

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Hundreds of African American newspapers from across the United States published during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Includes Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.

Digital archive covering foreign perspectives of American racial issues in the mid-20th century. Built from Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS).

Annual publication that included interviews, oral histories, photos, original art, poetry, and other firsthand perspectives tracking African American cultural trends in the 20th century.

Periodicals from the Black Power, Black Arts, Black Nationalism, Separatism, and Black Feminism movements.

Magazine for African American professionals and entrepreneurs, with information on careers, small business and personal finance.

Part of the America's News database. American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.

The official newspaper of the Black Panther Party. Part of the database Black Thought and Culture.

Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later Black World) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.

Nearly 300 digitized African American newspapers from nearly every U.S. state.

One of the first periodicals to highlight Black writers’ literary and political contributions. Higher quality scans available from Yale.

Magazine founded by W.E.B. Du Bois. 1910-1922 available from the Modernist Journals Project.

Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson.

Lifestyle, fashion and beauty magazine for African-American women. 1988-present available through EthnicNewswatch

Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

A list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google.

Includes these historically Black papers:
-Atlanta Daily World, 1931-2010;
-Chicago Defender, 1909-2010;
-Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2010;
-New York Amsterdam News, 1922-2010;
-Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1916-2010;
-Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2010.

News, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community.

Part of the Gateway to Oklahoma History digital collection.

Documents explaining how Black people traversed the bloody ground from slavery to freedom between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction in 1867.

A collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.

Preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South.

Oral memoirs of women in their 70s, 80s, and 90s from all over the United States.

Includes more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Also available in paper at E 441 .A58, Bizzell Library, as American Slave: A Composite Autobiography.

Interviews with black, white, and Mexican people in Texas about the civil rights movement.

Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

Firsthand perspectives tracking African American cultural trends in the 20th century.

Aims to collect, digitize, and present television news footage from the period.

Accounts from survivors of the Massacre of 1921. Also see the Greenwood Resource Portal from the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, and Otis Clark and Wess & Cathryn Young, Voices of Oklahoma.

Digital reproductions of organizational and personal papers and federal government records, including the papers of Mary McLeod Bethune and Claude A. Barnett, records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, government records on African-Americans in the military, black workers in the era of the Great Migration, files on surveillance of African-Americans, and FBI Files.

The bulk of the material dates from 1862 to 1895.

Writings and spoken words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many primary sources are reprinted in book form. Try using these keywords with your topic: correspondence, diaries, interviews, papers, "personal narratives" (with the quotation marks so it searches as a phrase).

See this guide for information on collections such as the NAACP papers, Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and more.

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Covers more than 500 years of African-American history using biographies, primary sources, images, videos, timelines, maps, and charts.

More than 1,300 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

More than 12,000 printed books, pamphlets and broadsides recording African American history, literature and culture from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities. The program will include up to four collections, targeted for completion by the end of 2025.

More than 550 works by authors of African or African-American descent. Includes personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems and musical compositions.

Provides access to approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. It also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Scholarly journals, commissioned essays by scholars in Black Studies, historic indexes, and the Chicago Defender newspaper, 1910-1975.

Non-fiction published works of over 1,000 leading African Americans, including artists, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, entertainers, and more. Includes interviews, journal articles, letters, and more. Includes Black Panther newspaper.

Covers the diverse history of Caribbean islands over nearly 400 years. Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

Cover important issues related to race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness in today's society. Resources include essays, journal articles, government agency reports, photographs, speeches, and other primary sources. A wide range of topics are covered, including affirmative action, food insecurity, environmental racism and environmental justice, the black lives matter movement, voting rights and voter suppression, police use of force, sports team branding changes, neighborhood gentrification, and much more.