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- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives
from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938
- This site "contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and
500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were
collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works
Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the
seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United
States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint
presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the
Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints
and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the
first time." Be sure to browse the "Special Presentations" area on the main
page. Also, try clicking on "keywords" and seraching Kentucky.
- The African-American
Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the study of Black History
and Culture
- This guide is the first library-wide resource guide to the Library of
Congress African-American collections. This is an excellent source of information
for exploring the early years of African Americans experiences in the United
States.
- Buffalo Soldiers on the
Western Frontier
- In July, 1866, Congress passed legislation establishing two cavalry and
four infantry regiments (later consolidated to two) whose enlisted composition
was to be made up of African-Americans. The mounted regiments were the 9th
and 10th Cavalries, soon nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by the Cheyenne and
Comanche.
- African-American
Pamphlets Collection
- The collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African American
history and culture, from the early 19th through the early 20th centuries.
- The New York
Public Library Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans
- "At this web site you will find various types of visual images on the
African American experience that are contained in the Photographs and Prints
Division of the Schomburg Center as well as other selected units of the
Research Libraries of The New York Public Library."
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