Related Resources at the Library
The following audio or video presentations are a sampling of the available material related to African American history available from the Library of Congress. These include webcasts (taped recordings of presentations, lectures, performances and speeches that have taken place at the Library) as well as musical recordings and unique sound artifacts from our collections, such as the first-person stories of life in slavery as told by former slaves.
Please note: This list represents only selected digital assets available through the Library's Web site. The Library's physical holdings in Washington, D.C., include more than 134 million items, including books, photos, sound recordings, films, maps and manuscripts, many of which are not available online.
Books
- Ashley Bryan: 2007 National Book Festival
- Jan Spivey Gilchrist: 2007 National Book Festival
- Sheila P. Moses: 2007 National Book Festival
- Kevin Clash: 2006 National Book Festival
- John Hope Franklin: 2006 National Book Festival
- Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
- Robert L. Carter: 2005 National Book Festival
- Nick Kotz: Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws That Changed America
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 2004 National Book Festival
- John Lewis: 2004 National Book Festival
Events / Webcasts
- Early African American Life
- Journeys and Crossings: Langston Hughes and His Poetry
- A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role (Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda, Queen of Buganda - Republic of Uganda)
- Robert L Carter: A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights
- Lamin Sanneh: Sacred Truth & Secular Agency: Shari'ah Norms and Political Enforcement
- Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
- View more Webcasts
Music/Performing Arts
- African Americans in the Performing Arts
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
- Jazz on the Screen
- Katherine Dunham Collection
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
Narratives
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- African-Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles, Stories from the Veterans History Project
Poetry
- Shelia Moses: 2006 National Book Festival
- David Kresh: Langton Hughes and His Poetry
- E. Ethelbert Miller Interview