African American and African Studies
Specialized Digital Collections
- American Memory This link opens in a new window
- Black Studies Center (formerly Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
What About Documentaries?
Unchained Memories : Readings from the Slave NarrativesCall Number: DVD E 1When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930s, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African Americans born into bondage. They conducted over 2,000 interviews and this DVD chronicles some of them.
The WMU Libraries subscribes to numerous streaming video databases. Check out the Streaming Video Sources Guide.
African American History in American Memory
The American Memory collection of the Library of Congress is especially rich in primary documents about the African American experience. They have 17 different collections, including sheet music, slave narratives, broadsides, Frederick Douglass papers, personal narratives from the South, baseball and Jackie Robinson.
One of the most useful is this collection of African American pamphlets from 1824 to 1909.
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