African American History & Culture
     
  Links to related primary sources from the Library of Congress  
     
     
  Web Guides
  1. African American Sites in the Digital Collections
  2. Harlem Renaissance
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. Rosa Parks
  5. Civil Rights
 
     
     
  Exhibitions
  1. The African-American Mosaic: African-American Culture and History
  2. The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
  3. Voices of Civil Rights
  4. With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty
  5. Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop
 
     
     
  American Memory Collections
  1. African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
  2. From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
  3. An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
  4. The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society, 1850-1920
  5. Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
  6. The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress (c. 1862-1895)
  7. The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
  8. First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
  9. Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
  10. Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
  11. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  12. Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories, 1932-1975
  13. The Zora Neale Hurston Plays, 1925-1944
  14. The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books, 1850-1877
 
     
     
  America's Library
  1. Thurgood Marshall
  2. Frederick Douglass
  3. W.E.B. Du Bois
  4. Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. Harriet Tubman
  6. Duke Ellington
  7. Langston Hughes
  8. George Washington Carver
 
     
     
  Images
  1. Work Projects Administration Posters: African Americans
  2. Minstrel Show Posters
  3. Performing Arts Poster Collection: African Americans
  4. Artist Posters: African Americans
  5. Farm Security Administration (daily life 1939-1944, color): African Americans
  6. Farm Security Administration (daily life 1935-1944, black and white): African Americans
  7. American Cartoon Prints, 1766-1876: African Americans
  8. Cartoon Drawings, 1880-1980: African Americans
  9. African American Photos for Paris Exposition 1900
  10. Civil War Photographs: African Americans
  11. Civil War Documentary Drawings: African Americans
  12. Detroit Publishing Company, 1885-1930: African Americans
 
     
     
  Veterans History Project
  1. African Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles
 
     
     
  Music & Dance
  1. African American Band Music & Recordings 1883-1923
  2. Aubrey Ghent & Friends: Sacred Lap Steel Guitar
  3. Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
  4. Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection  (dance)
  5. Ragtime
 
     
     
  Webcasts (streaming RealVideo®)
  1. Early African American Life
  2. A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights
  3. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
  4. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. & Laws That Changed America
  5. Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
  6. Langston Hughes and His Poetry
  7. Shelia Moses: Poet, Author, Playwright
  8. John Lewis: Civil Rights Activist, Author, U.S. Congressman
  9. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Brothers in Arms
  10. Kevin Clash: My Life as a Furry Red Monster
 
     
     
  Congressional Activity
  1. Apologizing to Lynching Victims and Their Descendants (Senate, Jun. 13, 2005)
  2. Is Racism Alive (House, Feb. 27, 2002)
  3. Recognizing the African American Spiritual as a National Treasure (House, Feb. 07, 2007)
  4. Recognizing the Contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 30th Anniversary of His Death (House, Apr. 01, 1998)
  5. Honoring The Tuskegee Airmen (House, Feb. 09, 2005)
  6. Black History Month (House, Jan. 28, 2008)
 
     
     
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Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C., Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA 		 
     
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