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Keyword searches should use words that would be found in speeches and written documents. This often includes legal terms and professional names, for example, suffrage is used more often than voting. Below is a compilation of keywords you may find helpful in searching the American Memory collections and other materials:

Niagra Movement National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) W.E.B. Du Bois Marcus Garvey

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Executive Order 9081 industrial schools Tuskegee Airmen

Great Migration Eleanor Roosevelt National Negro Business League National Urban League

Web Sites

African American Odyssey contains a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. See the Special Presentation, African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship for information on equal rights from the early national period to the twentieth century. African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. Progress of a People is a Special Presentation of African American Perspectives, 1818-1907.

American Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 is a collection of oral history interviews. The interviews describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations.

Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s tells the story of Jackie Robinson and baseball in general. The Special Presentation, Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson, 1860s-1960s, is a timeline that tells the story of the segregation and later integration of the sport.

Other Resources:

"Afro-Americans and the Evolution of a Living Constitution." Update on Law Related Education. American Bar Association, Fall 1988

Finch, Minne. The NAACP: Its Fight for Justice, Metuchen. NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1981.

Smallwood, Arwin D. The Atlas of African American History and Poltics: From Slave Trade to Modern Times. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1998

Stein, Judith. The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society. New Orlean, Louisiana State University Press, 1986.