African Americans Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: Basic resources about the history, culture, and contributions of African Americans.
Call number areas to browse: E185 (general) PS153.N5 (literature)
Keywords to search: african american, names, historic events, black americans, blacks
Subjects to search (Library of Congress): Afro-Americans,
Afro-American Authors, American Literature --Afro-American Authors,
Blacks, Authors
Blacks in literature
also: headings beginning with Afro-American(s) such as Afro-Americans in literature or Afro-American Art.
also: Afro-Americans under names of wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945 --Afro-Americans.
Works on blacks outside the U.S. are entered under Blacks--<place>.

Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
African American Almanac (REF E185.5 .A4)
African American Encyclopedia (REF E185.A253 1993)
Black Women in America (REF E185.86 .B542 2005 )

Library Resources (r):
African American Poetry 1760-1900
Ethnic Newswatch
JSTOR African American Collection
Oxford African American Studies Center
U.S. History in Context

African American authors subject guide
Biography subject guide
Literature subject guide
Civil Rights Movement subject guide
Harlem Renaissance subject guide

Internet Resources:
Archives of African American Music & Culture Music links selected by Indiana University (Bloomington).

African American Odyssey Exhibit by the Library of Congress includes slavery, abolition, civil war, civil rights, documents, etc.

African American World from PBS.org 

Born in Slavery narratives from the Library of Congress.

Digital Harlem, Everyday Life 1915-1930 website presents 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.

Gale Free Resources for Black History Month Read biographies of significant African-American individuals, take a Black History Month quiz, follow a timeline of events that helped shape African-American heritage, enjoy activities taken from the Black History Month Resource Book, explore African-American literature.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project from Stanford University

Museum of Afro American History, Boston Your connection to several museums of African American collections.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Provides access to digital texts and exhibitions.

Sonya Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History (web guide) gathers works on the African American experience, Africa, and the African Diaspora, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities.