African American communities, 1810-2013 1860-1990.

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Electronic reproduction of material relating to African Americans from the beginning of the 19th century onwards.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Atlanta History Center
Newberry Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Language:English
Published: Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, [2015], ©2015.
Subjects:
African American families > History > Sources.
African Americans > Social life and customs > Sources.
African Americans > Intellectual life > Sources.
African Americans > Social conditions > Sources.
African American arts > History > Sources.
United States > Race relations > 19th century > Sources.
United States > Race relations > 20th century > Sources.
African Americans > Segregation > History > Sources.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > Sources.
Black power > History > 20th century > Sources.
African Americans > Education > History > Sources.
Busing for school integration > History > 20th century > Sources.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century > Sources.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century > Sources.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
Format: Electronic
Description
Summary:
Electronic reproduction of material relating to African Americans from the beginning of the 19th century onwards. Focusing primarily on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York and the towns and cities of North Carolina, the collection presents multiple aspects of the African America community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories. The material reveals the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and provides insight into the uniqueness of African American culture and identity. Also featured is a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, maps and ephemera. It includes a run of the New York periodical, The Messenger, from Aug. 1925 to May/June 1928.
Note:Title from home page (viewed on 12 Oct. 2015)
Includes material by or about the following people: Walter Aiken, Saul D. Alinsky, Ivan Allen Jr., Laplois Ashford, James Baldwin, Edwin C. Berry, Jane M. Byrne, Algernon Lee Butler, Stokely Carmichael, Kenneth B. Clark, James W. Compton, Richard J. Daley, Frederick Douglass, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Cynthia Everett, John Hope Franklin, Lloyd K. Garrison, Lester Granger, William B. Hartsfield, J. Edgar Hoover, Langston Hughes, Jesse Jackson, Herbert T. Jenkins, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Lester Maddox, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Ralph McGill, James B. McMillan, Irvin C. Mollison, Patrick V. Murphy, Richard Nixon, Thomas J. Pearsall, Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry A. Rucker, Emmett J. Scott, Robert R. Taylor, Harry Truman, Austin T. Walden, Booker T. Washington, Harold L. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, Ida B. Wells, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins, Elizabeth Wood, Richard Wright, Whitney Young.
Includes material by or about the following organisations: American Jewish Congress, American Public Health Association, Anti-Defamation League, Atlanta Committee for Cooperative Action (ACCA), Atlanta Negro Voters League (ANVL), Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, Beverly Area Planning Association, Black Arts Movement (BAM), Black Panther Party, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), Chicago Commission on Human Relations (CCHR), Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, Chicago Freedom Movement, Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), Chicago Urban League (CUL), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Delmo Housing Corporation, Help Our Public Education (HOPE Inc.), International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, Ku Klux Klan, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), League of Women Voters of Chicago, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Urban League (NUL), Organizations Assisting Schools in September (OASIS), Pullman Company, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Urban League of St. Louis, Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
Includes material on the following topics: arts and culture, business and industry, civil rights and Black Power, crime and delinquency, education and training, employment and labour, faith and religion, family and daily life, government and politics, health and welfare, housing, legislation and legal cases, police and community relations, poverty and discrimination, protest and race riots, organisations, associations and societies.
Reproduced from original materials held in the following repositories: Atlanta History Center; Newberry Library; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Washington University in St. Louis; 5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom, Weeksville Heritage Center.
Electronic resource.