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African American Studies  Tags: african american  

The resources in African American studies at Perkins Library are extensive. Here you will find a range of resources, including sources and records related to the Middle Passage, American Slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, the American Civil Rights Struggle
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    Letters written by people who were enslaved in the United States are rare. Slaves were generally prohibited from learning to read and/or write, often with severe consequences threatened. Click above for a list of slave letters in RBMSCL.
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African American Resources

  • African American newspapers 19th Century  
      
    Provides the full text of articles from the following newspapers: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
  • America: History and Life (EBSCO)  
      
    Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
  • Black Studies Center  
      
    Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself.
  • Chicago Defender  
      
    Founded in 1905 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott, the Chicago Defender, has been the voice of the African-American Community in Chicago and across the United States.
  • Ethnic newswatch  
      
    Contains the full text of more than 450,000 articles, editorials, and reviews published in nearly 200 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the United States.
 

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