February is Black History Month! The following databases will help you locate articles, media, and primary sources related to African-American history:
African American Music Reference African American Music Reference contains 50,000 pages of text and 17,000 pages of liner notes that offer comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Black Drama Contains the full text of over a thousand plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Black Thought & Culture Primary sources covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Also includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.
Oxford African American Studies CenterReference materials on the African American experience as well as primary source documents, images, maps and other graphic materials. Limited to one user–please remember to logout.
Other databases that will have information on the history of blacks in America include American History in Video, Ethnic NewsWatch, Humanities Full Text, JSTOR, and Project MUSE.
