Black World Studies: Websites

This resources has outgoing links to locally available digital collections that pertain to African American experience in Ohio.

As part of their mission the Amistad Research Center collects information on civil rights and race relations, along with the cultural and social contributions of underrepresented peoples, including African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Jewish Americans, and Appalachian whites.

Badilisha Poetry X-Change is both an online audio archive and Pan-African poetry show delivered in radio format.

This 13,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and on the history of the more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.

User friendly archive containing historical images.

This database includes family photos, early African American educational Institutions, and personal collections highlighting the life of African Americans in the 19th century.

The women writers database includes the full-text of books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.

A digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Digital archive whose mission is to preserve the history of Africans and Afro-descended peoples in the Iberian colonies.

This archive examines the legacy and impact of slavery in Britain and in British colonies and estates in the Caribbean.

A digital archive on African American history and culture.

The National Archives keeps track of census data, images, and military records going back as far as the Civil War. Anyone interested in doing research (genealogical or purely academic) should start here.

Interactive mapping of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and also a visual history of how slavery shaped the modern world.