Primary Sources: African Americans
Historical Newspapers
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AAS Historical Periodicals CollectionThe entire AAS collection features over 7500 periodical titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Spanning 2,000 primary source documents related to African American history, from the movement to abolish slavery to the contemporary era, this collection is openly available to anyone interested in U.S. Black history, and the ways the past is reflected in current events.
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Brooklyn EagleDigitized version of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which was originally published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963.
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History Commons
Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture. These collections are encyclopedic in scope.
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Independent Voices
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
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Newsday HistoricalCoverage from 1940 to 1994.
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New York Times HistoricalCoverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 4 years prior to the current year.
Open Access
Behind the Veil Oral histories of the Jim Crow South.
Black Abolitionist Archive A digital collection of over 800 speeches and writings, including newspaper articles, by African American abolitionists. Maintained by the University of Detroit Mercy Libraries.
Civil Rights History Project Interviews of individuals involved with the Civil Rights Movement.
Navigating the Green Book The Green Book was a travel guide, published between 1936 and 1966, listing hotels, restaurants, bars and gas stations where Black travelers would be welcome. Mostly, but not exclusively, covers the American South.
North American Slave Narratives Includes slave and former slave narratives but also contains some fiction. Fiction would not count as a primary source necessarily.
Reveal Digital Contains primary source material on the background of the Civil Rights Movement and material on the Great Migration.
Slave Voyages Sponsored by Emory University, the database contains information culled from primary sources on the African slave trade. One can use it to extract data and information about specific voyages and to create statistical reports. It also contains a repository of images and essays on the topic. Please read the Legal page before citing, using and distributing