Primary Documents: History

A selection of 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

A long list of links to online resources for free digital archives, compiled by Elizabeth Clarke at Marist College.

A selection of images of 19th-century African Americans from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Can be browsed by theme or searched by keyword.

A website offering more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps detailing the migration of African Americans.

For primary source resources on the civil rights movement, check out the tab on the left of this page.

For primary source resources on slavery in the United States, check out the tab on the left of this page.