African American History Research Guide




Selected Subject Headings from the online catalog

  • African Americans Civil Rights Southern States History 20th Century
  • African Americans Civil Rights History
  • African Americans Civil Rights History 20th Century
  • African American Arts
  • African Americans History
  • African Americans Music
  • African American Women
  • Civil Rights African American
  • Civil Rights Movements Unites States History 20th Century
  • Civil Rights Movements Southern States History 20th Century
  • Slaves
  • Slavery Southern States
  • Slave's Writings American
Selected Reference Works
  • African-American Holiness Pentecostal movement : an annotated bibliography. ©1996. 
    Ref. BX 8762.5 .D87  
  • Black authors and illustrators of children's books: a biographical dictionary. ©1988. Ref. PN 1009.A1 R63 
  • Black firsts : 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events ©2003. Ref. E 185 .B574   
  • Black music in America : a bibliography. ©1981. Ref. ML 128.B45 S6   
  • Columbia guide to contemporary African American fiction ©2005. Ref. PS 374.N4 D533
  • Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history ©1996. Ref. E 185 .E54   
  • Encyclopedia of African American politics ©2003.   Ref. E 185 .S58  
  • Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights: from emancipation to the twenty-first century. ©2003  Ref. E 185.61 .E54 
  • Harlem Renaissance : an annotated bibliography and commentary. ©1982. Ref. NX 511.N4 P4     
Online Databases

Primary


Secondary

Journals on African American or Black History available online

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African Arts
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 06/22/2001 to present
  • ProQuest Research Library: 04/01/1990 to 07/01/2006
Black Enterprise
  • Business Source Premier: 05/01/1990 to present
  • General Business File ASAP - International: 12/01/1991 to present
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 12/01/1991 to present
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1987 to 10/01/2006
Black Issues Book Review
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 07/01/2000 to 14 days ago
  • Professional Collection: 07/01/2000 to 14 days ago
  • ProQuest Education Journals: 01/01/1999 to 07/01/2006
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1999 to 07/01/2006
Black issues in Higher Education
  • ERIC PlusText: 02/10/1994 to 08/11/2005
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 01/11/1996 to 06/02/2005
  • Professional Collection: 01/01/1996 to 06/05/2006
  • ProQuest Education Journals: 02/10/1994 to 08/11/2005
  • ProQuest Research Library: 02/10/1994 to 08/11/2005
  • Print – 2003- 2005
Black Music Research Journal
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 03/22/1997 to present
Black Renaissance
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 12/22/1999 to present
The Black Scholar
  • ProQuest Education Journals: 01/01/1988 to 04/01/2006
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1988 to 04/01/2006
  • Social Sciences Full Text: 03/01/2003 to present
Crisis
  • ProQuest Research Library: 05/01/2003 to 07/01/2006
Ebony
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 01/01/1989 to present
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1988 to 10/01/2006
Emerge
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1990 to 12/31/1990
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1993 to 06/01/2000
Jet
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 12/21/1992 to present
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/11/1988 to 10/16/2006

Journal of African American History
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 01/01/2002 to present
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1998 to 12/31/2000; 01/01/2002 to 07/01/2006
Journal of Black Studies
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 01/01/1997 to 11/01/1998
Journal of Negro History
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 06/22/1990 to 03/22/2001
The Negro Educational Review
  • ProQuest Education Journals: 01/01/2004 to 07/01/2005
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/2004 to 07/01/2005
Negro History Bulletin
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 12/01/1993 to 01/01/2001
The New Crisis
  • ProQuest Research Library: 10/01/1997 to 04/01/2003
Savoy
  • ProQuest Research Library: 12/01/2001 to 12/31/2003; 01/01/2005 to 06/01/2005
The Western Journal of Black Studies
  • ERIC PlusText: 01/01/1998 to 04/01/2005
  • InfoTrac OneFile: 03/22/1998 to present
  • Professional Collection: 03/01/1998 to present
  • ProQuest Education Journals: 01/01/1998 to 04/01/2005
  • ProQuest Psychology Journals: 01/01/1998 to 04/01/2005
  • ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1998 to 04/01/2005
Videos available
Across the River VHS 1256 
African-Americans Inventors ; from Dreams to Reality VHS 1510    
African American Life [1 copy being processed]
Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More, 1964-1972  VHS 584 
Ain't Scared of your Jails, 1960-1961   VHS 576  
America's Dream  VHS 2442
Awakenings, 1954-1956  VHS 574 
Back to the Movement (1979-mid 1980s) VHS 587
Bell Hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation DVD HM 623 .B4 
Black, White and Angry produced by NBC News. VHS 1170
Booker T. Washington VHS 1512
Bridge to Freedom, 1965 VHS 579
Democracy in a Different Voice with Lani Guinier.    VHS 848    
Do Blacks Lose by Winning at Sports?  VHS 2864     
The Entrepreneurs VHS 1191
Ernest J. Gaines' The Sky is Gray VHS 2711
Fighting Back, 1957-1962 VHS 575
Frederick Douglass, an American Life VHS 1188
Gospel music VHS 463; VHS 464  
The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980) VHS 586 
Langston Hughes VHS 253
Legacy of a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. VHS 1257
Martin Luther King, "I have a dream" VHS 1260 
Martin Luther King: the Legacy.   VHS 1168 
Mississippi: is this America?, 1962-1964 VHS 578     
A Nation of Law? 1968-1972 VHS 585
No easy walk, 1961-1963 VHS 577
Ralph Ellison VHS 1714
Richard Wright  VHS 1713 
Roots of Rhythm DVD M 1681 .C8 R66  
Pinky VHS 2350
Power! (1966-1968) VHS 582   
The Promised Land, 1967-1968 VHS 583
The Psychological Residuals of Slavery VHS 1750
Supreme Court Decisions that Changed the Nation  VHS 2554    
Thurgood Marshall: Portrait of an American Hero. VHS 697
The Time has Come 1964-1966 VHS 580
Two Societies, 1965-1968 VHS 581
Selected Internet Links


Reference
Biography

 History

 Slave Narratives