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reference materials (bibliographies, companions, encyclopedias);
secondary works (scholarly books and journal articles); and
primary sources (drama, poetry, novels, authors' memoirs and other personal narratives).

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Black History Month

"Each February, Black History Month subverts conventional narratives of American history by centering the grandeur and travails of the black freedom struggle" (Peniel E. Joseph, UT Austin, taken from a recently-published CNN op-ed titled Why This Year's Black History Month is Pivotal).

See the Primary Sources Online page of this guide for links to dozens more library e-books, databases, and open access websites that chronicle the African American experience.

All-American News
Library of Congress
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"All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events."
Black Abolitionist Archive
University of Detroit Mercy Libraries
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"From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period."
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
ProQuest
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Find here complimentary access to a selection of about 1,600 documents from modules in the "Black Freedom" series (History Vault). Documents cover the colonial, antebellum, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Contemporary (1976-2000s) eras. Please note that this is not the paid product formerly licensed by the library titled Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records. The paid product includes FBI Files on Martin Luther King Jr., for example, only a small selection of which is available here.