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Black Thought and Culture 
Access: On-Site Access Only
Description: Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection, which also includes biographic details, is designed for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
Material begins with the works of Frederick Douglass and is targeted to include (pending rights) the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Bunche, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Houston Baker, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, and many others. Black Thought and Culture presents a wide range of previously inaccessible material, including letters by athletes such as Jackie Robinson, prefatory essays by Amiri Baraka, political leaflets by Huey Newton, and interviews with Rosa Parks.
Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s)
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
History, Genealogy & Archives
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Related Links
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Other Related Links:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the N. Y. Public Library
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
