African American History: Get Started

This guide contains information about the best library and online resources for students taking HIST 2223 (African American History I Before 1877), and HIST 2224 (African American History II Since 1877).

Quotation

“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

What's in This Guide?

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:

  • Locate books or eBooks about African American History
  • Find articles with information about African American History, Black Life and Race Issues.
  • View websites that discuss health topics, Black History and Culture and National Organizations.
  • Link to more information for famous speeches, videos and multimedia and APA and MLA citation guides.

Ida B. Wells

Source: US Public Domain

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