English Language & Literature

Contains background information and thematic essays on all aspects of African American life and culture.

Contains thematic and contextual essays, plus images and maps dealing with African American history and culture drawn from Oxford University Press reference sources.

Black Historical Newspapers contains primary source material from American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It covers the periods from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights.

Contains many rare and historically significant African American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Contains complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

Contains wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans, including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Full-text of the Philadelphia Tribune from 1991-present via Proquest.

African American Communities focuses on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina, and offers pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories.

Contains literary works by and correspondence of major African American leaders; speeches, sermons, and lectures; articles, essays, editorials, and other major writings from more than 200 newspapers: African American, abolitionist, and reform newspapers.

Contains short stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors published from the mid-1900s to the present.

Black Women Writers contains fiction, poetry, and essays, of women from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Contains non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and others are included.

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry is a database of modern and contemporary African American poetry.

Contains resources pertaining to slavery and abolition studies.

Contains documents highlighting responses to overcoming prejudice, segregation and racial tensions. Interviews and statistics, educational pamphlets, administrative correspondence, and photographs and speeches from the Annual Race Relations Institutes are included.