African American History Research Seminar: African American Digital Collections

Amiri Baraka and the Black Power Movement

Black Power

The Civil Rights Era

The Newark Experience: African Americans

Slavery

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. San Francisco, Calif., California Newsreel, 2011.

Streaming videos of the conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. 37 videos of presentations, discussions, and concerts. Many of the programs feature SNCC veterans who provide an invaluable oral history of the Movement. Rutgers-restricted Access

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries. Letters and Diaries in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society. Date coverage is approximately 1750-1950; particularly strong in nineteenth century material. Rutgers-restricted Access

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950. Published and unpublished letters and diaries, journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings. Rutgers-restricted Access

The Krueger-Scott Oral History Collection

Audio files of over 100 interviews with African American Newarkers who had migrated to the city between 1910-1970, as well as those whose local roots spanned generations. Interviews were conducted in 1995-1999 as a project of the Krueger-Scott Cultural Center.

Krueger Scott Transcripts

The Newark Public Library has transcripts of the Krueger Scott interviews; a number of them are available as part of the Newark Public Library Digital Collections.

Inventory to the Rutgers-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s Oral History Collection, 1990-1992.

"The collection consists of cassette recordings of oral history interviews conducted by librarian emeritus Gilbert Cohen. These interviews document the city of Newark and Rutgers University-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s. Sixty people associated with the Rutgers-Newark campus were interviewed including students, faculty, administration, and staff representing a wide spectrum of political beliefs and levels of activism." Includes links to online audio and transcripts.

Queer Newark Oral History Project

Includes video interviews, with transcripts, of LGBTQ indivuals associated with Newark, as well as a rich collection of resources including a Queer Newark Bibliography and a History of Queer Club Spaces in Newark.

The HistoryMakers

Video interviews with some 2500 historically significant African Americans. Rutgers-restricted Access

Black Thought and Culture

The full text of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writing by leading figures in African American life and culture. Includes books, articles and essays, speeches, interviews, pamphlets and correspondence. Includes 135 items relating to the Black Panther Party, as well as the complete run of the Black Panther newspaper, 1966 through 1980. Rutgers-restricted Access

Black Drama: 1850 to the Present

Full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by 201 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes more than four hundred previously unpublished plays by writers such as Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Randolph Edmonds, Femi Euba, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. Rutgers-restricted Access

American Memory: African American History

5 digital collections from the Library of Congress.

African Activist Archive Project

Documents, photos, posters, remembrances and interviews from the 1950s through the 1990s.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience: Source Materials

Images, texts, maps and other source materials

Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive

Court cases, oral arguments, oral histories, images, statistics, and a bibliography.

Digital Harlem

Information, drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930.

Scottsboro Boys

Digital collection from Michigan State University.

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive

National Museum of African American History & Culture: The Collection

Historical artifacts, documents, photography and media.

Say it Plain, Say it Loud: A Century of Great African American Speeches

Audio files with transcripts.

Archives Unbound: Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984. FBI files on prominent African Americans and African-American organizations. The documents total approximately 88,000 pages and include published material such as newspaper clippings, transcripts of public meetings and speeches, and reports of special agents. Subjects of the investigations include Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the Highland Folk School.

Negro Motorist Green Book. 1949 edition. Listed businesses (hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, beauty shops, barber shops, etc.) that welcomed African American travelers.

1956 Negro Motorist Green Book

The New York Public Library has digitized The Green Book from 1936-1967

Women Working, 1800-1930

Approximately 650,000 digitized pages and nearly 1,500 images images, including 3,000 pages of manuscripts and personal papers, and 7,000 pages of institutional records; more than 3,100 individually cataloged books, magazines, and trade catalogs; and well over 1,400 photographs. From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program.

A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1918-1965: Part 1, Reports of the Director, Annual Summaries, Major Conferences, Speeches and Articles

Edited by Dale Grinder. Frederick, MD., University Publications of America, Inc. 1986.