The Collection

African American Music Reference *

Contains comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression chronicling the rich history of this music through 1970.

African American Song *

An online music listening service documenting the history of African American music in various genres.

Black Short Fiction *

Short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors.

Black Studies Center *

Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.

Black Thought and Culture *

An electronic collection of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trail transcripts.

Black Women Writers *

Presents literature and essays by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History 2nd ed., 2006 *

Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Vol. 1, 2005 *

Oxford African American Studies Center *

Includes articles, maps, and timelines about African Americans.