LibGuides: ENGL 4660 Blackness in 20th- & 21st-Century African American Literature: INTERNET RESOURCES

INTERNET RESOURCES FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH

Digital Schomburg Includes a variety of online resources, including a full-text collection of books by 19th Century African American female writers, as well as photo and audiovisual collections pertaining to African American history and the African diaspora.
The Ohio Historical Society: The African -American Experience in Ohio: Describes specific moments in the history of Ohio's African-Americans who lived during the time period 1850 to 1920 narrated in their own words.
American Slave Narratives (U of Virginia)
Civil Rights History Project (Library of Congress, American Folklife Center)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
F. B. Eyes Digital Archive (Washington U. at St. Louis & William J. Maxwell F. B. Eyes book project)
Historical Texts
Malcolm X: A Research Site
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Black Population statistics (U. S. Census Bureau)