Online Resources for African-American Information

Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Scholarly Celebrations

Today, we have a different feature. After all the amazing comments we’ve been getting about the information we provide, we thought it would be nice to feature a list of additional online resources with more amazing information about African-Americans and the African-American experience in this country. Some you may know of while others may be new to you, be we are certain that you will enjoy the wealth of knowledge presented!

So, as we all begin to shift to a “back to school” mindset, we hope you add these to your “scholarly toolkit” and absorb as much of the rich history found within the resources that follow.

The beginning of our list focuses on Education while the latter portion is on History & Culture.

Search. Find. Discover!

The Journal of Negro Education (JNE), a scholarly refereed journal, was founded at Howard University in 1932. It is one of the oldest continuously published periodicals by and about Black people. At the time of its inception, however, there was no publication that systematically or comprehensively addressed the enormous problems that characterized the education of Blacks in the United States and elsewhere. The mainstream educational journals only occasionally published articles or studies pertaining to Black education, but no publication focused specifically on this area. There was thus an urgent and critical need for a scholarly journal that would identify and define the problems, provide a forum for analysis and solutions, and serve as a vehicle for sharing statistics and research on a national basis. Consequently, the Journal was launched with a threefold mission: first, to stimulate the collection and facilitate the dissemination of facts about the education of Black people; second, to present discussions involving critical appraisals of the proposals and practices relating to the education of Black people; and third, to stimulate and sponsor investigations of issues incident to the education of Black people.

Providing racial statistics, on an institution-by-institution basis, appears to have considerable competitive force in persuading American colleges and universities to more fully integrate their campuses.

Almost 10 years ago we founded The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

African-American Research Section

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation’s record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.

Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.

Here you can find information about African-Americans from various eras: pre & post civil war, slavery, and even military and medical records like Tuskegee Medical Patient Files. Photos and family histories from these eras can be reviewed.

African-American Search

The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library’s mission.

Encyclopedia of African-American History & Culture

The Smithsonian Encyclopedia of African American History and Culture is an amazing resources. There’s so much information here that we can’t even describe you. You will have to see for yourself. But you will be amazed by the abundance of information!

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