African American Communities

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Overview

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 in-depth oral histories.

Provider:

Adam Matthew Digital

Posted:

Apr 8, 2015 10:31am

Updated:

Jun 16, 2016 12:00am

Source

CRL reviews are based on independent research. Information is researched by CRL staff and other specialists at CRL libraries. See CRL Review for additional source notes.

Details

Collection Content

Subject Areas:

Social Sciences

Resource Types:

Archival materials

Correspondence

Legal documents

Maps

Newspapers

Pamphlets

Photographs

Major Languages:

English

- Denotes data sourced directly from publisher

Content Details:


Topics covered	The collection uncovers the everyday lives of African Americans spanning two turbulent centuries, covering these major topics: Desegregation, Urban renewal and housing problems, Civil rights activities and protests, Race relations and community integration, and African American culture
Geographic coverage	Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, New York and towns and cities in North Carolina
Chronological coverage	Material spans 1810 to 2013
Source format(s)	Primary Sources complimented by additional contextual research and teaching tools
Total titles	3,983
Total pages	299,280
Major language (s)	English
Digital collection launch date	Published in October 2015
Completion date	Completed in October 2015
Collection ongoing	No
Available supplements	Compatible content available in other Adam Matthew titles can be cross-searched through 'Archive Explorer' if an institution has access to these other collections.

Specifications

Metadata:


MARC records available	Free to download MARC 21 records from our website amdigital.co.uk
Creator of MARC records	Adam Matthew
Source for obtaining MARC records	http://www.amdigital.co.uk/support/for-librarians/marc-records/
Fee for MARC records	Free to download MARC 21 records from our website amdigital.co.uk

Technical Platform:


Browser compatibility	IE9+, Latest versions of Chromr, Firefox and Safari on Mac
Authentication options	IP including Proxy
Archiving solution (master files)	Portico Dark Archiving
Archiving solution (derivative files)
Available in web discovery tools	Google: Adam Matthew provide data to major academic discovery services
Open url target	N/A: OpenUrl links are provided for any secondary references e.g. in essays and relevant link resolver details held in our access management database
Federated searching, z39.50	SRU can be supported on request
Local host option	Y: Adam Matthew can supply raw data and image files
Usage stats based on Counter code	Counter 4 compliant

Interface Tools:


Full text displayed	Printed items and metadata across all documents are full text searchable
Page images	Scrollable zoom functionality; image rotation; browse pages; display pages at full-screen or view thumbnails of all images in a document
Color images	Full colour scans/images
Search full text	Boolean search enabled
Advanced search	Boolean search enabled with options to filter search by document title, places, Organisations/Associations, document type, theme, library/archive, collection, date (year to and from), image gallery and secondary resources
Search within results	Ability to search full text within documents that have been returned through search results
Limit results by dates and/or document types	Results can be limited by document type, theme, library/archive, collection, by documents or secondary resources and can be sorted by title, date, theme, document type, library/archive and collectionAt document level users can browse by section, chapter or visual highlights
Display highlighted search terms	Search terms highlighted in document image/page and also highlighted in thumbnails and image snippet at document level.
Display snippet (search term in context)	Image snippets showing search term in context are displayed at document level
Relevance sorting	Images containing search term can be sorted by relevance, pages and number of hits
Save searches	Searches can be saved to 'My Archive', a free repository built into the resource
Download PDF	All documents and document images can be downloaded to PDF either in full or a specified page range.
Download HTML
Print page	Print through browser or download to PDF to print
Print full document	Print through browser or download to PDF to print
Export citations	All documents can be exported to Endnote and Refworks to generate biliographic data.Citations are provided for all documents.
Annotation tools	Not available
Cross-product searching	Complimentary content available in other Adam Matthew titles can be cross-searched through 'Archive Explorer' if an institution has access to these other collections.
ILL permitted	Scholarly Sharing: Authorised Users may transmit to a third party colleague in hard copy or electronically, minimal, insubstantial amounts (defined as no more than 5% [five percent] of the total collection of the Licensed Materials) of the Licensed Materials for personal use or scholarly, educational or scientific research but in no case for re-sale.
Text/data mining permitted	Offline data is by application. Restricted to non-commerical use
Restrictions on use	Authorised users only The licensee shall not modify or create a derivative work of the licensed materials without the prior written permission of licensorThe licensee may not remove, obscure or modify any copyright or other notices included in the Licensed MaterialsThe licensee may not use the Licensed Materials for commerical purposes, including but not limited to the sale of the Licensed Materials or bulk reproduction or distribution of the Licensed Materials in any form

Terms and Provider Details

Terms:


Subscription option	None
Purchase option	One-time purchase, perpetual access
Multiple year payments option	Can discuss directly with Adam Matthew the requirements for this option.
Maintenance fees	None
Hosting charges	0.5% of net purchase price, paid annually or 7.5% of net purchase price to cover perpetual hosting on Adam Matthew server

Provider:

Adam Matthew Digital

Website:

http://www.amdigital.co.uk/

Main Address:

Pelham House, Pelhams Court

London Road

Marlborough

SN8 2AG

United Kingdom

CRL Review

Collection Content:

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:

Chicago Urban League Papers, c.1916-1985
Material from the papers of Thomas J. Pearsall, James B. McMillan and Algernon Lee Butler
Complete run of The Messenger, 1925-1928
The Long, Rucker and Aiken family papers
Urban League of St. Louis Records
Material related to the Pruitt-Igoe housing project
Interactive exhibition on the African American community of Weeksville in Brooklyn
thematic guides
community case studies
A visual gallery organised by key theme
Specially-commissioned contextual essays from academics and collection specialists

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

Delivery:

The content is backed up by PORTICO dark archiving.

Terms:

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.

Sources

Sources for this review include information publicly posted or obtained directly from the publisher; data collected by CRL staff and specialists at CRL libraries; and examination of the digital collection when possible. Other sources are noted where cited. CRL continues to gather additional information on this resource and to solicit critical assessment.

CRL Offers & Status

Status	Current	Description
CRL Flagged	no	Potential interest to CRL community
Offer Pending	no	Currently a candidate for CRL offer
Active Offer	no	Currently offered for purchase or new subscription
Trial Access	no	Available for trial
Renewal Offer	no	Currently offered for renewal
Expired Offer	yes	Past offers
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration by CRL
Reviewed by CRL	yes	Evaluation available by CRL and community
Special Access	no	Member-only access available for a limited time

The complete offer and activity details for this resource are only available to CRL members.

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