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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The African American Archives provides over a million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, the earliest coming from the collection of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
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