Meet Elizabeth Sanford ’23! She graduated from Furman last year with a Master of Arts in Teaching and now she’s attending the University of North Carolina where she is studying library and information science. Here’s what she said about how the Southern Scholarship helped her go to school for free. “This scholarship has been a . . .Continue reading Elizabeth Sanford ’23 Receives the Southern Scholarship
Africa and the New Imperialism, part of the Adam Matthew collections of primary sources, documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers navigating the interior of the continent in the early nineteenth century; . . .Continue reading BHM #12 – Africa and the New Imperialism
Black Abolitionist Papers –This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, . . .Continue reading BHM #11 – Black Abolitionist Papers
African American Communities – Pamphlets, photos, postcards. Political cartoons, illustrations, maps. Scrap books, legal documents, ephemera and more. This collection, albeit somewhat small, contains a fascinating variety of primary source documents evidencing race relations across social, political, cultural, and religious arenas. Examining multiple aspects of the lives of African Americans through the lens of . . .Continue reading BHM #10 – African American Communities
HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together diverse publications covering civil rights in the United States. This database is packed with great resources all in one place! It contains links to scholarly articles, hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, . . .Continue reading BHM #9 – Civil Rights and Social Justice
Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. The complete collection also includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources present a full-text collection of more than . . .Continue reading BHM in Databases #8 – Ethnic NewsWatch
The Oxford African American Studies Center includes over 20,000 articles, written by top scholars in the field, focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American history and culture. Embedded within these articles are countless images, maps, and videos to enrich the content experience. Biographical entries can be searched and filtered by the person’s occupation, . . .Continue reading BHM in Databases #7 – Oxford African American Studies Center
Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League Part of Archives Unbound from Gale Primary Sources, this collection is sourced from the Library of Congress. The collection is comprised of the National Negro Business League files, part of the Booker T. Washington Papers. The National Negro Business League was founded by Booker T. Washington who . . .Continue reading BHM in Databases #6 – Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records The focus of this Federal Government Records collection is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century. Major features . . .Continue reading BHM in Databases #5 – Black Freedom Struggle
Black Drama, now in its expanded third edition, contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print with more than 40 percent of the collection consisting of previously unpublished plays . . .Continue reading BHM in Databases #4 – Black Drama
