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

UNLV Library Databases

African American Archives
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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
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1816-1922
Newspapers and magazines published by African American churches, educational and service institutions.
African American Music Reference
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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
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1827-1902
African-American newspapers including The Colored American, all of Frederick Douglass’ newspapers, The Freedmen’s Record, and more.
African Writers Series
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Novels, plays, poetry, traditional African folk materials and non-fictional accounts of African culture and history.
American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
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1840-1938
Narratives from people who had been enslaved that were collected by the WPA Federal Writers' Project between 1936 and 1938.
Black Drama
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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.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records
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1901-2000
Records from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations detailing the interaction between civil rights leaders and the federal government; includes FBI files on Martin Luther King Jr.
Black Studies Center
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Scholarship and historical sources for Black Studies.

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