Explore these free digital collections to find documents, films, photos, interviews, sound recordings, and more:
African-American Migration Experience
From the New York Public Library Schomburg Center, offers essays, books, articles, and manuscripts, 8,300 illustrations, 100 lesson plans, and 60 maps to aid in understanding peoples, places, and events that shaped African America's migration over the past four hundred years. (Some map animations no longer work due to outdated Flash technology.)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Civil Rights Digital Library
This major collection includes a digital video archive of historical news film, connections to related digital collections on a national scale, encyclopedia articles, and more.
HistoryMakers
National archive of 5,000+ videotaped oral histories of African Americans, from President Obama to the oldest living black cowboy.
North American Slave Narratives
Books, memoirs, and articles providing autobiographical account of slavery. Accounts are from published works up until 1920.
Black World/Negro Digest
Collection of issues from the 1960s and 1970s, digitized by Google.
The Crisis
Official publication of the NAACP. Scans of issues from 1910 through 2010, digitized by Google.
Ebony
Major African American magazine. Complete scans of issues from 1960 through 2000, digitized by Google.
Jet
African American weekly news publication, digitized by Google, from 1950 through 2005.
