The Delta Heritage collection is just one of many online sources providing researchers with information on African Americans in history. Some additional collections that may be of interest are listed below.
The African American Experience in Ohio 1850 – 1920 is a project of the Ohio Historical Society that features over 30,000 pages scanned from newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs and prints, serials relating to African Americans life in Ohio between 1850 and 1920.
The Oral History Digital Collection of Maag Library includes several oral histories recorded by local African Americans.
Underground Railroad Collections and History WORKS: The Influence of the Modern Civil Rights Movement on US Foreign and Domestic Policy are two exhibitions compiled from Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook.
Voices of Civil Rights is a project of the AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the Library of Congress, preserving personal stories of Americans involved in the movement for civil rights. An online exhibition of the project is available on the Library of Congress website.
African American Odyssey is an online exhibit from the Library of Congress’s American Memory Project detailing African American history through relevant rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings in the Library’s collection. The exhibit is divided into nine chronological collections: Slavery–The Peculiar Institution, Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period, Abolition, The Civil War, Reconstruction, Booker T. Washington Era, World War I and Postwar Society, Depression, New Deal, and World War II, and Civil Rights. Additional digital collections include The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938, From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909, and Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860.
Sources of Images on African American History is the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division’s collection of images pertaining to African American history. The library has prepared some reference aids which may assist in narrowing searches topically.
“With an Even Hand”: Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty is a Library of Congress exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown decision.
The Library of Congress’s Learning Pages includes a Civil Rights-themed page of classroom resources that will be of use to teachers and students.
Digital Schomburg is the digital library of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, also including online exhibits.
World Wide Web Virtual Library features an extensive collection of links to websites, exhibitions, and full-text resources under the African American History subject heading, arranged chronologically and thematically.
Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950 – 1970 is a collection of streaming videos of news broadcasts pertaining to the civil rights movement from 1950 to 1970 from the University of Virginia Library. The University of Virginia library also features the Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs and a vast selection of electronic books by or pertaining to African Americans in the Electronic Text Center.
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly material. Its collections can be browsed by journal name (including nine African American studies journals) or searched by natural language.
