African-American Studies Research

Chicago Defender (1910-1975).
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)

Over 280 newspapers published by or for African-Americans, providing a record of history, culture, and daily life from 1827-1998.

Covers the experiences and impact of African Americans from 1976-current day, as recorded by the news media.

Covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its first issue in 1945 through 2014.

Transcriptions of nearly 700 interviews with those who made history in the struggles for voting rights, against discrimination in housing, for the desegregation of the schools, to expose racism in hiring, in defiance of police brutality, and to address poverty in the African American communities.

A collection of materials on the history of slavery. Includes four parts: Debates Over Slavery and Abolition, Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, The Institution of Slavery, and The Age of Emancipation.

Legal materials relating to the history of slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every federal, state, and colony statute on slavery, as well as all reported state and federal cases on the subject.

This collection includes 4,285 pages from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library, including surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more regarding the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration and the segregated South.

Explores social issues and controversial topics in a unique pro/con format. Also includes relevant journal articles and primary sources.