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| Stone Center Guide to the Web - Library Collections (21 items) |
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- A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University (HBCU)
- This digital collection provides electronic access to the archives and special collections of participating Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). (Source: Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Library Alliance, Inc.)
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- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection, this site includes a searchable database of pamphlets which features the writing of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and others. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- African Americans in the Performing Arts
- This site serves as an online guide to the Library of Congress collections and resources on African Americans in music, theater, dance, and other performing arts. The site includes information on featured online exhibits and collections. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- African and Middle Eastern Reading Room
- The site provides information on the African, Hebraic, and Near East collections of the Library of Congress. Included are detailed information on each collection, online research and reference guides, illustrated guides, featured online exhibits, and much more. (Source: The Library of Congress)
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- African-American Theses and Dissertations: 1907-2002
- This site contains a bibliography of over 600 theses and dissertations on African American topics completed at the University of California, Berkeley. (Source: University of California, Berkeley)
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- Augusta Baker Collection of African-American Children's Literature & Folklore, The
- The Augusta Baker Collection features over 1,600 books of African-American children's literature and folklore. The website includes in interview with Augusta Baker, a biography, and information about the collection. (Source: University of South Carolina)
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- Black Oral History Collection
- From the Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections department of Washington State University Libraries, this site provides access to the Black Oral History Collection, which consists of interviews of "African-American pioneers and their descendants throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, from 1972-1974." (Source: Washington State University Libraries)
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- CA--African Americans in California – (The Bancroft Library)
- This site contains information about the lives and influence of African Americans throughout the history of California. The site features a searchable collection of books, film, pamphlets, and archival materials, as well as a list of related resources. (Source: The Bancroft Library, University of California-Berkeley)
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- Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
- The Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University "is one of the nation's leading research facilities for the study of the history and culture of people of African descent. This collection of over 30,000 items has materials on the global black experience in all formats: books, manuscripts, sheet music, pamphlets, journals, newspapers, broadsides, posters, photographs, and rare ephemera." (Source: Temple University)
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- FL--African American Collections
- This site presents resources which focus on the African-American community in Florida. Particularly well-represented are records from The Visionaires, a Gainesville community organization formed in the 1930s for African American women, and records from the Cunningham Funeral Home, which provide valuable information about community demographics, financial transactions, letters and photographs. The Collections may be browsed or searched. (Source: University of Florida Digital Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries)
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- Hatch-Billops Collection
- The Hatch-Billops Collection, founded in 1975 as a repository for information pertaining to African American art, drama, and literature, features an oral history collection, a slide and image collection, and a reference collection. The site contains links to past journal issues published by the collection as well as a calendar of sponsored programs. (Source: Hatch-Billops Collection)
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- John Hope Franklin Collection for African and African American Documentation
- This site offers information about the John Hope Franklin Collection housed at Duke University. "The collection is especially strong regarding nineteenth century slavery and African-American life in the post-World War II civil rights era" (Source: Duke University Libraries)
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- Mayme A. Clayton Collection of African American Culture & History, The
- The Mayme A. Clayton Collection of African American Culture & History is includes rare and out-of-print books, manuscripts, documents, films, music, photographs, and memorabilia. The website highlights featured selections from the collection as well as news and membership information. (Source: Western States Black Research and Educational Center)
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- Morehouse King Collection
- This site features information on the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection at Morehouse College, a “10,000-piece collection of handwritten notes and unpublished sermons.” Included are information on the collection, a timeline of King’s life, a video introduction to the papers, and links to further online resources. (Source: Morehouse College)
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- NYPL Digital Gallery – Africana and Black History
- This website presents the NYPL Digital Gallery’s Africana and Black History collection of digitized photographs and historical documents. "The collection is comprised of several thousand items relating to African-American history from the sixteenth century to the present." The collection may be searched or browsed, and the website includes links to related subjects in the Digital Gallery and the library divisions that hold each item in the collection. (Source: The New York Public Library)
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- Portal for African American Pamphlets
- “The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library at Emory University houses several thousand 19th and 20th century pamphlets relating broadly to African American religion and politics.” The site allows the user to browse pamphlets by subject including pamphlets with an African American author, publisher, or illustrator. Under “About” are links to other collections of African American pamphlets. (Source: Emory University)
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- Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
- This site features a searchable database and digital images of over 300 posters in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University. (Source: Northwestern University)
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- Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection at the Library of Congress
- This Library of Congress collection focuses on Katherine Dunham, an influential anthropologist, performer, choreographer, and teacher of the dances of the African Diaspora. This site features a full inventory of the collection and includes films and images relating to Dunham’s work that may be viewed online. Also included are historical essays, a timeline, and a bibliography for further study. (Source: The Library of Congress)
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- The NYPL Picture Collection Online
- The New York Public Library Picture Collection Online is comprised of digitized images from the NYPL Picture Collection. It includes illustrations from books, newspapers and magazines as well as photographs, prints and postcards, all of which are organized by subject. The Collection includes substantial holdings on African American subjects and may be browsed or searched. (Source: The New York Public Library)
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- The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century
- This site presents "a selection of representative collections and objects which illustrate the growth and development of the Center's holdings since Schomburg's death." The collections include topics such as Africa, the African Diaspora, Ralph Bunche, George W. Westerman and Langston Hughes. (Source: Schomburg Center)
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- W.E.B. Du Bois Papers
- This site offers online access to a catalog guide of the W.E.B. Du Bois Papers housed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Microfilm copies of the papers are available at various universities, all of which are listed on the site. Included is a sample of the W.E.B. Du Bois exhibit with captioned photographs and biographical essays. Also featured is information on hosting the Du Bois traveling exhibit. (Source: University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
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