African American History- HIST 374w Resource Guide

Missouri websites for African Americans genealogy.

The Black Archives of Mid-America, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a center for learning and research into the African American experience in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and the Midwest at large.

This list of African American Historic Places in Missouri is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Presevation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers.[1]

The Missouri State Archives' African American History Initiative began in October 2001. The initiative aims to create a broad public awareness of the rich contributions of African Americans to the state, as well as offer new resources to historians and others studying Missouri's black history.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration website

Companion site to a documentary on African Americans in the press that contains information on major black journalists and newspapers, a timeline, bibliography, and educational resources.

10,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history in the United States and on the history of the more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.

NMAAHC collections represent objects collected across the country to tell the stories that make up the African American experience.

Harper’s Weekly
Electronic version of Harper’s Weekly coverage of black America during the 1850s to 70s, including editorials, news stories, cartoons, advertisements, verse, and fiction, with timelines

This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Library of Congress
Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African-American collections

Includes several African American collections such as the Frederick Douglass Papers, Slave Narratives, and Jackie Robinson.

Lists archival resources available. Organized by location, so that you can find archives near you. Sponsored by the American Historical Association.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

Includes primary source materials from libraries, museums, public broadcasters and other organizations.

A collection of texts and images about the history of the South from the library at the University of North Carolina.

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan asked Lee Iacocca, then Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, to head a private sector effort to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) was founded.

An online exhibit of the Emancipation Proclamation from the National Archives and Records Administration. Includes photographs of the original document.

"The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database." Home page

The New-York Historical Society, one of America’s pre-eminent cultural institutions, is dedicated to fostering research, presenting history and art exhibitions, and public programs that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today. Founded in 1804, New-York Historical is the oldest museum in New York City. New-York Historical has a mission to explore the richly layered political, cultural and social history of New York City and State and the nation, and to serve as a national forum for the discussion of issues surrounding the making and meaning of history.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. For over 80 years the Center has collected, preserved, and provided access to materials documenting black life, and promoted the study and interpretation of the history and culture of peoples of African descent.

Oral history, newspapers, microfilm, and digital collections on Missouri.

The Texas Slavery Project examines the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850. Includes maps and primary sources.

A database of slave-trading voyages, including information about crew and slaves. Also includes summary statistics and secondary sources about the slave trade. Another database includes names of some 67,000 slaves transported in the Middle Passage.

Digital files of noncommercial radio programs from the 1950s and 1960s. Includes interviews of civil rights activists.