“To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
-James Baldwin, 1963
Library and online sources for students of HIST 2223 (African American History I Before 1877), and HIST 2224 (African American History II Since 1877). Choose a tab at the top of the guide, or browse sections below to get started:
Source: US Public Domain