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log in or sign upAfrican American Communities provides access to primary source materials documenting race relations across social, political, cultural and religious perspectives in the United States from 1863-1986. This collection focuses on Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina, and provides multiple views of the African American community through personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories.
African American Communities provides access to primary source materials documenting race relations across social, political, cultural and religious perspectives in the United States from 1863-1986. This collection focuses on Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina, and provides multiple views of the African American community through personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and oral histories.
The collection includes:
The themes and subjects covered in this collection include: migration of African Americans from the South into northern cities, education of freedmen after the Civil War, demographics, voting rights, civil rights activities in Chicago and Atlanta, African American culture, African American Americans in the military, health care and welfare programs, role of the church in African American communities, desegregation, and many more.
Sources include:
Atlanta History Center
Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
Washington University, St. Louis
The Newberry Library
Weeksville Heritage Center
The content is backed up by PORTICO dark archiving.
Access to the database is granted through a one-time purchase (subject to an annual hosting fee) allowing an unlimited numbers of concurrent users, remote access, downloads and scholarly sharing.
This purchase is subject to Adam Matthew's standard license.