African American Resources
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Also see African American Fiction, African American Health, and Urban Fiction/Street Lit.
For a list of local African American history resources, visit this page or stop by the local history department on the fourth floor of the library. Some items of interest include biographical files, photographic collections, manuscripts, oral histories, and newspaper clipping files.
Magazines and Journals at the Library
- The library owns literally thousands of magazines and newspapers in print, microfiche, microfilm, and electronic formats. These magazines are located in the Reading Room, our Youth Services Department, the Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department, and our Retrieval Desk at the Main library, as well as at each of our branches.
- Search our catalog for specific titles.
- Search our databases for full-text articles and citations from thousands more magazines and newspapers. Check MeL (the Michigan Electronic Library) to find out if a magazine's full-text articles are included in a database.
- Below are lists of the current newspapers and magazines we have in the Reading Room at the Main Library.
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MultiCultural Review (website) |
- Also, the Grand Rapids History and Special Collections department of the library has compiled a collection of local newspaper clippings pertaining to African Americans from as far back as 1830! Check out the index!
Web Resources
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union
African American Odyssey A wonderful site from the Library of Congress.
Africans in America A great site from PBS for images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries relating to slavery and early African American history.
Black History Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History.
BlackPast.org: Remembered and Reclaimed An exploration of African American history with both primary and secondary documents.
Drop Me Off in Harlem A great place to learn about the Harlem Renaissance.
Historical Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers A project at Stanford University
NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Negro Baseball League History of the teams and players of the Negro Baseball Leagues.
Reporting Civil Rights Reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture A wealth of resources from the New York Public Library.
Voices of Civil Rights A collaboration to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all.
