African-American Heritage Databases

African-American Newspapers digitized by the Library of Congress - New issues are being added constantly.

African-American Newspapers of Oklahoma - Digitized by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States - Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

Civil Rights Digital Library - The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. Volume 13 deals with Oklahoma

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center - One of the oldest African American archives in the country. Includes the Howard University Archive. Located in Washington, D.C.

The Black Experience In Children's Books: Selections From Augusta Baker's Bibliographies - The Augusta Baker Collection reflects the interests and concerns of one deeply involved in children's literature and librarianship. The collection also contains important works by authors like Virginia Hamilton and Tom Feelings, emphasizing the African-American experience in twentieth-century children's literature, and numerous anthologies of folktales and stories from many cultures, used by Augusta Baker during her career as a storyteller.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division - The Photographs & Prints Division contains both documentary and fine art photographs, which document the history and culture of people of African descent worldwide as well as the work of photographers of African descent. The collection of over 300,000 images ranges from mid-eighteenth century graphics to contemporary documentary and art photography; all of the major photographic processes are represented.

Solomon Sir Jones Films, 1924-1928 - (From Yale University's Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) "The Solomon Sir Jones films consist of 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928.

The Green Book (African-American Motorist Guide 1936-1966) - A collection of these guide books by Victor Hugo Green, were a valuable resource for African-American travelers in the Jim Crow era. These editions have been digitized and provide a unique look at the discrimination faced by African-Americans in that era.

For more information also see Traveling While Black: A Century of Pleasure & Pain & Pilgrimages.