Lafayette College Library

Full text of African American newspapers from the 19th century.

Gateway to online resources about Africa. The annotated links are grouped by region, country, or topic and may also be searched by keyword.

Database indexing journals that cover Africana studies. Each title is indexed from its first day of publication. In most cases, only brief bibliographic citations are provided, but a few citations include links to full text.

Collection of works on Islam and the Islamic world. Includes scholarly encyclopedia articles, Qur'anic materials, and primary sources.

Collection of 351 pamphlets by African Americans and others from the Library of Congress's Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907. The bulk of the material was published between 1875 and 1900 and includes public orations, organization records, personal narratives, legal documents, and literary works. Topics covered include segregation, voting rights, violence against African Americans, and the colonization movement.

A collection of 52 works providing "access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920." A project from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Digital Schomburg of the New York Public Library.

Index of English language materials on African women, including books, articles, government documents, theses, conference papers, and videos. In most cases, only brief bibliographic citations are provided, but a few citations include links to full text.

A collection of stock arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans. Also includes digitized sets of parts and pre-1923 recordings for selected arrangements, songs, and composers.

Collection of documents by and about the African National Congress and the international struggle against apartheid. Includes brief biographies of ANC leaders and activists.

Collection of primary and secondary sources on African American history plus links to digital archives and other African American history sites.

Gateway to primary sources on the civil rights movement in the U.S., including films, oral histories, government documents, and editorial cartoons.

Collection of oral histories and manuscripts documenting the civil rights movement and the Freedom Summer Project of 1964. Transcripts include biographical information and a list of topics discussed.

Collection of African myths. From Oxford University Press.

Contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895.

Collection of 397 pamphlets published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials from the Library of Congress range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches.

Detailed data on trans-Atlantic slaving voyages from the 16th through 19th centuries.