Library: Ethnic Studies: African American Studies

Books from the Catalog

Umbra Search African American History
Umbra Search is a search tool that brings together over 500,000 digitized materials in African American history and culture from more than 1,000 libraries and archives nationwide.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

National Museum of African-American History and Culture: The Collection
As part of the Smithsonian Open Access Initiative, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture has made its collection items and/or images thereof available online. You can browse the collection in several ways, e.g. by topics, including the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter, or by era.
African-American Odyssey
This set of exhibitions from the Library of Congress provides a sweeping yet still detailed look at 200 years' worth of Black history in America.
Black Women's Suffrage
Black women, unlike white women, did not gain suffrage with the 19th Amendment. This collection, hosted by the Digital Public Library of America and containing material from multiple institutions, chronicles the path to suffrage for Black women in the United States.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center offers digital collections, research guides, and other materials related to African American, African Diasporan, and African experiences.

Journal of Black Studies
Edgewood offers full-text access to this journal via several databases. SAGE Journals includes coverage up to the present day with no embargo or delay.
Journal of African American Studies
Edgewood has full-text access to this journal through three databases, with a one-year delay.
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (First Edition)
Open-access textbook provided by Eastern Kentucky University. Available for download as a full PDF or as individual chapters.