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Databases

Student Resource Center
Search African Americans.  Includes articles on film,  radio, TV, theatre, education, race relations, etc.  Look at the links on the left to narrow the search to more specific topics. Click the Primary Documents tab for links to poems, speeches, book excerpts, etc.

American History
Search African Americans.  Find primary documents and images.

LitFinder
Under Genre select Ethnic and Regional Writing.  Then select African American Poetry.  On the left scroll down to By Timeline and select 20th Century.

For Current news articles try:
Ebsco Popular Magazines

Ebsco Newspapers

For news articles from past decades try:
Chicago Tribune

Facts On File

Web Sites

Art Cyclopedia: African American Artists    
Lists artists by dates

GrandpasArt
Select an artist to view his or her art from the drop down box in the upper left corner. Get names of artists from site above.

Library of Congress: African American Odyssey
Scroll down on the left to find World War I and Post War Society; Depression, New Deal and World War II; and Civil Rights.

Virtual Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
History of Jim Crow: Image Gallery
Especially try the "Signs of Segregation Collection" and "The Distorted Mirror Collection" (Scroll down to find and click on the picture.)

Harlem 1900-1940
Includes a Timeline and topics of Activism, Arts, Sports and Writers

Library of Congress: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s

Library of Congress: African American Music, 1938-1943

Library of Congress: Jazz, 1938-1948

Kingwood College Library's American Cultural History
Links to art, architecture, literature, education, fashion, fads, historic events, music, theater, film, television, and radio by decade.

Moss H. Kendrix: The African American Image in Advertising
Check the other links on the left under Moss Kendrix.

Modern American Poetry
From UIUC

The American Academy of Poets

Poetry Audio Page

 Last Updated: November 16, 2005