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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.
Biography Resource Center. Useful once you have the names of artists, musicians, poets, etc. You can also search the database by ethnicity and occupation (i.e., artist, musician, etc.).
For news articles from past
decades try:
Historical Newspapers
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
Last Updated: November 3, 2009