African American Studies

An exhibit mounted by the Library of Congress containing a special collection of primary documents and images from the eighteenth century through the Civil Rights period.

From Stanford University Press, Black Quotidian explores the everyday lives of African Americans in the 20th century.

Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

A collection of stories, images, and multimedia from contributors who experienced events that unfolded in the Missouri city as a result of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer on August 9, 2014.

Eyes on the Prize is considered to be the definitive documentary on the Civil Rights Movement. These interviews are part of the Henry Hampton Collection housed at the Film and Media Archive at Washington University Libraries.

The papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.

Presents 396 pamphlets, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.

A guide to freely available African American newspapers.

Highlights materials documenting the Black experience.

Search the collection and explore exhibitions, centers, and digital initiatives.

The papers of Rosa Parks via the Library of Congress.

Contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.

A collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history.

Brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.

The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.

Includes over 100,000 items of correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper columns, nonfiction books, research materials, book reviews, pamphlets and leaflets, petitions, novels, essays, forewords, student papers, manuscripts of pageants, plays, short stories and fables, poetry, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, videotapes, audiotapes, and miscellaneous materials.