Library Catalog
On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Call Number: E184.S75 O79 2018
May We Forever Stand by Call Number: ML3561.L54 P37 2018
Chocolate Cities by Call Number: E185 .H86 2018
History of African Americans by Call Number: E185 .D265 2016
What Is African American History? by Call Number: E184.65 .D35 2015
Streaming Video
- Many Rivers to Cross Brings African-American history Up to DateHenry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts 500 years of African-American history in a six-part series for PBS called Many Rivers to Cross. Gwen Ifill sits down with Gates, a Harvard University professor, to discuss the journey of black Americans who created hope and persistence in the face of brutal discrimination.
Databases
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Articles and scholarly essays, historical newspaper articles, primary sources, and timelines you can use for African American topics.
- U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Articles, essays, and primary sources on the history of the United States. - ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Articles on any subject. This is a good place to start.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Background information on all topics to start your research.
Online From CCBC Libraries
50 Events That Shaped African American History [2 Volumes] by
This two-volume work celebrates 50 notable achievements of African Americans, highlighting black contributions to U.S. history and examining the ways black accomplishments shaped American culture.This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique look at the African American experience, from the arrival of the first 20 Africans at Jamestown through the launch of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Ferguson Protests. It illustrates subjects such as the Jim Crow period, the Brown v. Board of Education case that overturned segregation, Jackie Robinson's landmark integration of major league baseball, and the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. Drawing from almost 400 years of U.S. history, the work documents the experiences and impact of black people on every aspect of American life.Presented chronologically, the selected events each include at least one primary source to provide the reader with a first-person perspective. These range from excerpts of speeches given by famous African American figures, to programs from the March on Washington. The remarkable stories collected here bear witness to the strength of a group of people who chose to survive and found ways to work collectively to force America to live up to the promise of its founding.
Publication Date: 2019-09-19
Milestone Documents in African American History by
Exploring fundamental primary sources from African American history, this new edition provides in-depth, analytical essays on 150 iconic documents and speeches from the 1600s to the present day. Coverage includes important legislative documents such as the Reconstruction era amendments; critical Supreme Court decisions such as Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education; and historic speeches and writings by leaders such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama. This new edition adds a wide variety of historic documents plus new analysis of speeches and documents to extend coverage into the twenty-first century. New material includes: Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa -- Wendell Phillips: The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement -- Richard Wright: "Blueprint for Negro Writing" -- Ella Baker: "Bigger than a Hamburger" -- Adolph L. Reed, Jr.: "When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina". With content aligned to the National Standards in U.S. History and signed essays written by a team of 70 esteemed historians, Milestone Documents in African American History offers an unparalleled reference tool for students conducting primary source research. It's particularly useful for high school students in both regular and A.P. history courses, community college students, and American history survey courses for undergraduate college students. In-depth teacher activity guides make the set extremely useful at the classroom level, and every entry includes study questions that assist teachers in engaging students with further research. Entries include the full text of each document, overviews of its importance, explanations and analyses of historical contexts and the document's impact, and a brief biographical profile of the author(s). Also included are essential quotations from each document, questions for further study, teacher guides, timelines, glossaries, search indexes, and more. The volumes are organized chronologically. Within each volume, entries are likewise arranged chronologically. - Publisher
Publication Date: 2017
African American Alamnac by
The African American Almanac is written in an engaging style by subject experts, and reviewed by academic editor Christopher Brooks of Virginia Commonwealth University. Included is a chronology chapter that highlights important events in African American history. A related chapter on African American Firsts focuses on important first-time achievements. Also included is a chapter on significant documents in African American History, providing first-hand accounts of historical events, a chapter on African American Landmarks, arranged geographically by state, and a nation-by-nation profile of Africa as well as significant countries in the western hemisphere, outlining a history of the Diaspora. Politics, religion, science, art, music, literature, sports, education, civil rights, military and law are also covered in chapters offering narrative history along with separate biographical profiles of key figures. An appendix of award winners highlights significant accomplishments across a wide spectrum of activity and more than 500 images (photographs, artwork, charts, and maps) enhance and clarify the text. A general bibliography arranged by chapter supports further research and study.
Publication Date: 2011
Websites: Primary Sources
- The Valley of the Shadow
The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction. It includes 1,00 of digital letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, census and church records. - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
This site contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.