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Curated at the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library, Nineteenth Century American Sheet Music Collection includes vocal and instrumental titles from the 1830s to the end of the century.
Record of African American history, culture, and daily life. Covers life in the Antebellum South through the Civil Rights movement and more. Based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals.
On March 24, 1800, Forlorn Hope became the first newspaper published within a prison by an incarcerated person. In the intervening 200 years, over 450 prison newspapers have been published from U.S. prisons. Some, like the Angolite and the San Quentin News, are still being published today. American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Browse the archival and manuscript collection inventories to find detailed descriptions of each of our collections. You can also search across the same collections when you want to find materials on a specific subject or topic.
  • Part of the database offerings in GALILEO, Georgia's Virtual Library
Presented by the Digital Library of Georgia, the Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding Aids describe unique research collections, including personal papers, organizational records, oral histories, photographs, and audio-visual resources. Some finding aids include links to items that have been digitized. -- From the Website.
Historical newspaper providing genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. -- From the Website.
Booker T. Washington, founder of the National Negro Business League, believed that solutions to the problem of racial discrimination were primarily economic, and that bringing African Americans into the middle class was the key.
The focus of this module is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century. -- From the Website.
The Organizational Records and Personal Papers bring a new perspective to the Black Freedom Struggle via the records of major civil rights organizations and personal papers of leaders and observers of the 20th century Black freedom struggle. -- From the Website.
This Black Freedom module is highlighted by the records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, and the Robert F. Williams Papers. -- From the Website.
The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist militant organization that operated from 1970 to 1981.
Promotes positive stories of and about Black Men, ...and curates the Black male's journey and experiences.
This collection of RAM records reproduces the writings and statements of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and its leaders.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora is a comprehensive collection created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora, offering short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. -- From the Website.
Fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, etc.
Video collection featuring award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. -- From the Website.
This database draws its current content from international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies and contains full-text coverage of core Black Studies titles.
Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history.
Collection of free and open educational resources to support faculty and students teaching and learning in Africana, African American, and Black Studies programs.
Composed of FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party; this collection provides two unique views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa, the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of African independence movements as political leverage for domestic Black struggles.

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