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)
List of books written by African American authors
African American Almanac (check catalog)
African American Encyclopedia
(REF E185.A253 1993)
Black Women in America (check catalog)
Chronology of African American History
(REF E185.H64 1991)
Masterpieces of African American Literature
(REF PS153.N5 M264 1992)
Oxford Companion to African American Literature
(REF PS153.N5O96 1997)
Materials in your TCC Library for Black History Month, "From Slavery to Freedom"

Library Resources (r): 

Black History Month 2007 (bibliography)
Ethnic Newswatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
JSTOR African American Collection

*Also try our African American authors, biography, literature and Civil Rights Movement guides.

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 

Afro American Almanac includes biographies, documents, folk tales, and current issues.

Black History Hot List Includes Black History Month, leaders, news, poetry, etc.

Born in Slavery narratives from the Library of Congress.

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History presents a vast array of articles, hundreds of images, and a wide assortment of audio clips, film clips, and multimedia presentations. The timeline traces two millennia of black history, and the browse features enable you to pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in black history.

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.