LibGuides: Library Displays: February

Other Research Guides

African American Experience This link opens in a new window
The African American Experience is the widest ranging collection on African American history and culture represented in speeches, photos, reference articles, biographies, cultural documents and timelines about people, places, and events.
Gale in Context US History This link opens in a new window
Covers themes, trends, and people from United States history. Contains full text articles, maps and images, with many primary source documents.
Gale in Context World History This link opens in a new window
Covers themes, trends, and people from world history. Contains full text articles, maps and images, with many primary source documents.

Great African American Authors This link opens in a new window
Great African American Authors is a video series that tells the history of African American literature in the United States from 1761 to the present.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: a Selection of Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
This resource contains select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. There are approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:

Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

Various Government Agencies
ebruary is Black History Month The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Origins of Black History Month
National Archives African American History
The National Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the African American experience and highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.
National Archives African American Heritage
The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.
Blackfacts.com
Black history facts.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Digital Schomburg
Video archive, podcasts, oral histories and more.
History Channel: Black History Month