- Africa
Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent [RealPlayer]
africafocus.library.wisc.edu/
"This digitize and rescue mission" is a joint project
of the African Studies Program and the General Library system at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. The goal is to present a well rounded view of African
live via 3,000 slides, 500 photographs, 50 hours of sound recording from 45
African nations. One may browse by collection, subject or country. This is
and excellent resource for anyone interest in African history.
- African
American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/index.stm
This digital collection of manuscripts, newspaper articles,
serials, photographs, and pamphlets illuminates specific moments in the history
of Ohio's African Americans. In addition, it provides an overview of their
experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people
who lived them.
- African
American Perspectives - Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection
1880-1907
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
There are 351 titles in the collection including sermons
on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational,
and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation orations.
Also included are biographies, slave narratives, speeches by members of Congress,
legal documents, poetry, playbills, dramas, and librettos. Several of the
pamphlets are illustrated with portraits of the authors.
- African
American Women Writers from the 19th Century
/digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
This digital collection highlights some 52 published
works by 19th-century black women writers owned by the Schomburg Research
Center of Black Culture in Harlem. The searchable collection provides access
to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured
in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
- Amistad
Research Center, Tulane University
www.tulane.edu/~amistad/
The Amistad Manuscript library is one of the largest
national repositories specializing in the history of African-American papers.
This site does not contain digital images, but it does provide finding aids
to nearly 300 manuscript collections. Nearly half of the collection is devoted
to local, state, and regional activities while the other half focuses on persons
who have national recognition. The site is well organized but it does not
provide practical information such as directions to aid potential researchers.
- Creative
Americans, Portraits by Carl Van Vechten
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vvhome.html
Another "American Memory" product, Creative Americans
consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten
(1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of
portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem
Renaissance. A much smaller portion of the collection is an assortment of
American landscapes.
- Database
of African American Poetry, 1760-1900
etext.lib.virginia.edu/aapd.html
This Chadwyck-Healey commercial database is a collection
of over 2,500 poems, based on William French's bibliography, Afro-American
Poetry and Drama 1760-1975.
- Jackson
Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs
www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/jdavis/
The Jackson Davis Collection consists of a main body
of papers consists of contains approximately 6 linear feet of Davis's personal,
professional, and financial files, as well as topical files, spanning the
years 1906 through 1947. The collection also includes 4502 photographic negatives,
249 glass lantern slides and 759 photographic prints. The image database based
on this collection consists of 4,500 photographs of African-American educational
scenes in the southern United States taken by Davis from 1915 ot 1930.
- Marian
Anderson: A Life in Song - University of Pennsylvania: An Exhibition
www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/anderson/index.html
This exhibition celebrates the artistic development
and musical career of opera singer and native of Philadelphia, Marian Anderson.
The exhibition format includes not only manuscripts and photographs but also
audio and video clips from interviews and performances.
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Paul
Laurence Dunbar - Digital Text Collection
www.libraries.wright.edu/dunbar/
is a Tribute to Dayton poet and novelist, P. L. Dunbar
This collection provides access to over two hundred poems published at the
turn of the century. In addition, there is an edition of one of his librettos
and audio versions of a number of poems.
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State
Historical Society of Wisconsin slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/aanp/.
James Danky has led a project to produce a comprehensive guide to newspapers
and periodicals of African-Americans, The African-American Newspapers
and Periodicals: A National Bibliography and Union List, a description
of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. A follow-up grant has been awarded
to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from the National Endowment
for the Humanities to preserve African-American periodicals on microfilm.
©Elaine L. Westbrooks
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