E-Resources for African & African American Studies

Provides access to major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Publications include Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder. Full text is available.

Covers the history of Africa and its diverse people over nearly 400 years and includes more than 1,300 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

Provides access to more than 40 African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Features English and foreign language titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Database of more than 12,000 printed books, pamphlets, and broadsides recording African American history, literature and culture from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

International survey of the effects of apartheid on South Africa and the world with a digitized collection of primary source documents related to apartheid. Built from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS).

More than 550 works by authors of African and African-American descent, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, novels, essays, poems, and more.

Provides access to approximately 1,310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. This database also includes selected playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays.

Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource provides access to texts that document the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century from the perspectives of men, women, and children.

Black Life in America, Series 3 offers a window into African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent. Updated daily with new content, this database provides in-depth coverage of issues involved in America’s ongoing conversation on race, including coverage of historic changes such as Barack Obama’s election and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Black Studies Center consists of scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black Studies, and historic indexes. This resource includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database (formerly International Index to Black Periodicals), the Black Literature Index, and historical black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender.

Contains the non-fiction published works of over 1,000 leading African Americans, including artists, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, entertainers, and more. Resources cover over 250 years of history and include interviews, journal articles, letters, speeches, trial transcripts, and other materials. Full text is available.

Archives the African-American historical newspaper The Chicago Defender, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Searches the full text of the Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, and Pittsburgh Courier.

Access the African-American historical newspaper the New York Amsterdam News, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

Archives the African-American historical newspaper Norfolk Journal and Guide, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.

Brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including more than 1,000 books and pamphlets.