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African American Guide     

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African American Journals

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
  • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for 1360 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
  • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
• Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
  • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
  • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
• History Universe: African American Studies (LexisNexis CIS) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
  • Primary and secondary materials covering the colonial era to the present day, including major federal legislation, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, colonial legislation, colonial court cases, autobiographies, manuscript materials, scholarly articles, photographs, speeches, government documents.
  • To access this database off campus, go to Maryland Digital Library, then click on "login."
• JSTOR
  • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
  • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
• Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
  • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
  • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
  • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
  • To access this database off campus, go to Maryland Digital Library, then click on "login."
• 1986 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
• Online Serials (Internet Public Library)
  • Links to full-text African American journals, magazines, etc. (under "Social Sciences," then "Ethnicity, Culture, and Race.")
• For more databases, see Journal Databases.

Civil Rights

• Civil Rights in the United States. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.
  • (Call number: R 323.0973 C582)
• Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Eds. Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
  • (Call number: R 305.896073 E56)
• Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. 4 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 1998.
  • (Call number: R 323.1196073 E56)

African Americans in Maryland

• African American Resources (Maryland State Archives)
  • Links to projects on the history of African Americans in Maryland. Also provides information on doing research in the subject area.
• See also the Subject Guide on Maryland.

African American Music

• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Brown University, American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
  • Twentieth century titles also have many photographs of African-American musical performers, often in costume. Searchable. Excellent site.
• The Development of an African-American Musical Theatre 1865-1910 (American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
  • Reproduction of pieces of sheet music. Searchable.
• See also the Subject Guide on Music.

African American Writings

• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
  • Most of the material published published between 1875 and 1900.
• Electronic Text Center: African American (University of Virginia)

  Items from Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library

  • Texts by and about African Americans.
• Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library)
  • Full text of books and pamphlets by African American women published prior to 1920.
• Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  • Will include all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before1920.

  Documenting the American South: The Church in Southern Black Community

  • 100 works tracing how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life.

Statistics on African Americans

• Statistical Record of Black America. 4th ed. Eds. Carrell Peterson Horton and Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1997).
  • (Call number: R 305.896073 S797)
• For more statistics, see also the Subject Guide on Statistics.