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

1792-1941
Primary source documents from the National Archives about the lives of African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

1816-1922
Newspapers and magazines published by African American churches, educational and service institutions.

Comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

1827-1902
African-American newspapers including The Colored American, all of Frederick Douglass’ newspapers, The Freedmen’s Record, and more.

Novels, plays, poetry, traditional African folk materials and non-fictional accounts of African culture and history.

1840-1938
Narratives from people who had been enslaved that were collected by the WPA Federal Writers' Project between 1936 and 1938.

Over 1200 plays by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

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.

Scholarship and historical sources for Black Studies.