Category: Black History Month

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the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print with more than 40 percent of the collection consisting of previously unpublished plays .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

Colonial Caribbean – Stretching from Jamaica and the Bahamas to Trinidad and Tobago, Colonial Caribbean makes available materials from 27 Colonial Office file classes from The National Archives, UK. Covering the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870, this extensive resource includes administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes . . .Continue reading BHM in Databases #3 – Colonial Caribbean

Black Thought and Culture  In the Black Thought and Culture database, the ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.  This is a huge electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, . . .Continue reading BHM in Databases #2 – Black Thought and Culture