Governor Danell P. Malloy's Proclamation

These resources will be freely available in the month of February

EBSCO
African American Archives - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid&user=iconn1&password=native&profile=footnoteep

The African American Archives provides over a million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, the earliest coming from the collection of Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation from the Danish West Indies (1672-1917). There are several other slavery-related collections, including letters, account books, annual reports, news clippings, and related manuscripts from the American Colonization Society. The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.

The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.

Gale Cengage - http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/

 Includes biographical and historical resources.

ProQuest
Historical Black Newspapers - http://search.proquest.com/embedded/7HQKHX36JPCD2W73?accountid=143950

ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.

ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom Struggle - http://www.conquest-histvault.com/HV_Librarian_Trial/

Black Studies Center - http://bsc.chadwyck.com/cleanAutoLogin.do?instit1=T143950&instit2=KLSU66CGMW

Black Abolitionist Papers - http://bap.chadwyck.com/cleanAutoLogin.do?instit1=T143950&instit2=KLSU66CGMW

Other Useful Resources

ABC-CLIO History and the Headlines (Get on the Bus! A Look Back at the Historic Freedom Rides)
African American History Month
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library Digital Collections)
AFRO Black History Archives | The Afro-American Newspapers
American Memory - African American History:  17 Collections
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (U of Virginia)
Black History Teaching Resources
Historical African American Newspapers (Marist College)
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project (Stanford University)
Museum of Connecticut History Freedom Trail Quilts
Oh Freedom! Teaching African American Civil Rights Through American Art at the Smithsonian
Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project
S. RES. 39 ("Apologizing to the victims of lynching and the descendants of those victims for the failure of the Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation") Congressional Record 6-13-2005 - Senate Comments
Statement by Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on Black History Month 2011
U. of Virginia Electronic Text Center: African American
Underground Railroad (National Underground Railroad Freedom Center)
WOW @ The Library in Celebration of African-American Heritage