Category: Research Resources

The Republic of New Afrika (RNA) was a social movement organization that proposed three objectives: The creation of an independent Black-majority country composed of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina and the Black-majority counties adjacent to this area in Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida. $400 billion in reparations for the injustices suffered…

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;…

  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,…

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…

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,…

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…