Information on Michael Brown/Ferguson and Black Lives Matter
This is an excellent research guide on Ferguson made by librarians at the University of Arizona.
NOTE: I don't know how often they are updating this, so it's probably better to use it for "historical" rather than "currrent" information.
Miami Dade College librarians have created an excellent guide for the Black Lives Matter movement
Words
"My grandfather was colored, my father is Negro, and I am black." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
from Newman, African American Quotations, 1998
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
A five-volume set and supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History
Explore the collection; you may even be able to use some of the images, with permission.
Schomberg Center African American Migration Experience
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In Motion: the African American Migration ExperienceIn Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced. The eleven others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settlement and development of the Americas. Their hopeful journeys changed not only their world and the fabric of the African Diaspora but also the Western Hemisphere.
The State of Black America
The State of Black America is an annual report of the National Urban League that addresses the socio-economic issues central to Black America in the current year. Each issue focuses on a particular theme.
The current year is held in Miller Reference; back issues at Colby are found in the Miller stacks.
2008 - The Black Woman's Voice
2007 - Portrait of the Black Male
Images From the Schomburg Collection
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
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