LibGuides: Black History Month Resources: UNLV Library Databases Focusing on Black History, African American Studies

UNLV Library Databases

African American Archives
1792-1941
Primary source documents from the National Archives about the lives of African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
African American Historical Serials Collection, 1816-1922
1816-1922
Newspapers and magazines published by African American churches, educational and service institutions.
African American Music Reference
Comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of Black American musical expression.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
1827-1902
African-American newspapers including The Colored American, all of Frederick Douglass’ newspapers, The Freedmen’s Record, and more.
African Writers Series
Novels, plays, poetry, traditional African folk materials and non-fictional accounts of African culture and history.
Black Drama
Over 1200 plays by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle
Good for: Primary sources from the civil rights movement in the United States.
Contains: Official publications and primary source material including records of the NAACP, papers from presidential administrations, and relevant records from the FBI and other federal agencies.
Dates covered: 1901-2000.
Black Studies Center
Scholarship and historical sources for Black Studies.

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