Primary Sources: History: African Americans

Use this site to find over 1200 images about Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the New World.

Contains over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.

This site presents more than 8,000 pages of original essays, primary documents—books, pamphlets, articles, and illustrations—as well as secondary sources and original maps.

Focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.

Presents original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.

An archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century. The focus is on the town of Charlottesville VA.

Promotes an enhanced understanding of the struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s with primary sources and other educational materials.

Primary source documents about the African American Freedom Struggle chosen from the King Papers collection

This site is a gateway to the vast and growing array of information on the Web and in other sources on the lives and histories of the millions of African Americans who have and continue to make the West their home.