Black Studies Center
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books and much more.
Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Contains 1,303 sources with 1,210 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
This collection, from HeinOnline, brings together essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. The collection includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery, plus every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, which includes many essays and articles in obscure journals in the United States and elsewhere. Also included are many modern histories of slavery.
W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, 1803-1999
From the NEH: "W.E.B. Du Bois stands as one of the twentieth century's deepest thinkers and greatest writers, whose extraordinary gifts as a scholar helped shape modern sociology, and whose social conscience shaped the global movement for civil rights." His complete papers are now freely accessible online via the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
