A digital selection of the Smithsonian's wide range of collections preserving the material history of African American musical history.

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world. We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Throughout U.S. History, African Americans have played an integral part in the development and achievement of this country. Fold3 is now revealing a side of the African American story that few have seen before. View more than a million rare photos and documents.

Provides links to various archival material related to the migration and settlement of Black people into Canada via Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States since the 17th century.

Full-length documentary feature chronicling the lives of 22 Howard University Women who marched in the Women's Suffrage March of 1913 and changed the course of history forever. *Available via Youtube

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Includes Arizona, California, District of Columbia, and other selected States. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

From 1900 to 1909, during a period of intensifying racial violence and black disfranchisement in the United States, the Colored American Magazine served a vital role in promoting the development of African American literature, protesting injustice, and contesting dominant representations of African American culture and history. The Digital Colored American Magazine makes freely available full-color reproductions of unbound or bound but unstripped issues of this important periodical, with scholarly commentary on selected issues.

The SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work is a collaborative project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Legacy Project, Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, and Duke University Libraries. This documentary website tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation.

Contains essays by leading scholars pertaining to African American literature and history ranging from 1609 to the present.

The site includes profiles of great black heroes, as well as podcasts and videos.

This Web portal contains online exhibits and collections including audio, video, images, and teaching resources.

Documentary by PBS about the life of Malcolm X, or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. *Full length documentary available via Youtube

the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project is one of only a few large-scale research ventures focusing on an African American. Its principal mission is to publish the definitive fourteen-volume edition of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.,a comprehensive collection of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.

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

Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine Online Exhibition.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and includes digital collections.

Explore 899,079 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. The site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Search Engine that brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country. Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and we pay homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement.

Large collection of Freedman's Bureau records (mostly transcribed, not digitized) from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Also provides links to several other sites with Freedman's Bureau materials.

The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) believes that a thriving multiracial democracy requires racial, social and economic justice for all.BAJI was formed to bring Black voices together to advocate for equality and justice in our laws and our communities.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

Blackout for Human Rights (Blackout) is a network of concerned artists, activists, filmmakers, musicians and citizens who committed their energy and resources to immediately address the staggering level of human rights violations against fellow Americans throughout the United States.

Black Scholarships is an online guide to Scholarships, Financial Aid and more for African American Students. It is the largest online directory of scholarships and financial aid opportunities for African American and other minority students.

The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) preserves and presents African Diaspora cultures; trains the next generation of cultural leaders; and unites Diaspora communities. CCCADI leverage arts and culture as tools for personal transformation, community-building, and social justice.

The Center for Black Equity (CBE) is an institution committed to supporting leaders, institutions and programs for health, economic and social equity for LGBTQ+ people of African descent.

The Common Ground Foundation, founded by Oscar winning rapper Common, aims to empower high school students from under-served communities to become future leaders. The programs focus on character development, social impact, healthy living, technology, financial literacy, creative arts, and global leadership.

Creating awareness of the existence of people who are of Afro-Latino heritage by honoring their rich and diverse cultures. Educating and uniting communities through Diversity, Leadership Development, Inclusion and the Arts.

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

The National Black Student Alliance serves to provide Black students and allies a community, brave space, and the opportunity to create change.

The National Coalition of Black Women's mission is to advocate on behalf of black women and girls to promote leadership development and gender equity in the areas of health, education and economic empowerment.