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The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media. 

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Black Power

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Archives Resources

Guide to Black History

Guide to Black History

Records relating to African Americans at the National Archives

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The History Hub

Find answers to your African American research questions at History Hub

 

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ALIC Black History Resources

 

The Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) has compiled a helpful list of resources from the National Archives, Smithsonian, other federal and non-federal agencies and institutions to aid in research relating to African Americans. 

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Featured Records

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Images from the March on Washington

President Obama being sworn in 2013

Records on President Barack Obama

Records of the Black Experience in DocsTeach

Blogs & Articles

National Archives Blogs

Rediscovering Black History - exploring records relating to Black History at the Archives

Education Updates - African American history blogs

Forward with Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt's Battle to End Lynching

Hoover Heads - Desegregating the Commerce Department

JFK Library Archives - Black History blogs

NARAtions - African Americans blogs

Pieces of History - Black History blogs

Text Message - Black History blogs

Unwritten Record - African American history blogs

Articles

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka - A Landmark Case Unresolved Fifty Years Later, Jean Van Delinder (2004)

Prologue Special Issue on African American History (1997)

The Revolutionary Summer of 1862 - How Congress Abolished Slavery and Created a Modern America, Paul Finkelman (2018)

Slavery and Emancipation in the Nation's Capital - Using Federal Records to Explore the Lives of African American Ancestors, Damani Davis (2010)

Testing the 15th Amendment - Milton Claiborne Nicholas and the Legacy of the First Black Voters, Heather Glasby (2016)

Voices of Emancipation - Union Pension Files giving Voice to Former Slaves, Donald R. Shaffer and Elizabeth Regosin (2005)

Public Programs & Online Exhibits

Online Exhibits

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What Was Black College Life Like in the New Deal?

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Tears of America: The Riots of 1968

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Trial of a Century: La Amistad

meeting between Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Roy Wilkins

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Amending America: Civil Rights and Individual Freedom

Elizabeth Eckford waiting for a bus after being denied entry into Central High School

Desegregation at Little Rock Central High School

Selected Public Programs

 

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