Trailblazer Research Guide
African-American History
African-American History
Dewey Decimal Call Number Areas
- 303, 305, 306, 317, 347, 780, 791, 792, 796, 809, 810, 920
- General Information
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, R 305.896 A258
- Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights, R 305.896 E56
- Reference Library of Black America, R 305.896 R332
- Encyclopedia of American Social History, R 301.0973E56
- Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, R 306.36203 H673
- Supreme Court, R 347.7326 S959w
- Encyclopedia of Jazz, R 785.42 F419
- Profiles of African-American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960, R 791.089 P485
- Oxford Companion to American Theatre, R 792.0973 B729
- Encyclopedia of World Sports, R 796.03 E56
- Oxford Companion to African-American Literature, R 810.8 O98
- African-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940, R 810.9 A258
- African American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance, R 810.9 A258
- African-American Writers, 1940-1955, R 810.9 A258
- African-American Poets since 1955, R 810.9 A258
- African-American Writers after 1955: Dramatists & Prose, R 810.9 A258
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, R 809.04 C761
- World Literature Criticism, R 809.04 W927
- American Writers, R 810.9 A512
- American Generations, R 303.38 M682ag
- American Attitudes, R 303.38 M682aa
- Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, R 780.922 H339
- New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, R 780.3 G884
- Notable Black American Women R 920.72 N899
- Encyclopedia of World Biography R 920.02 E56
Statistical Information
Biographical Information
Finding Books Using the Online Catalog
- African Americans
- Afro-Americans
- African Americans--special topic
- e.g. African Americans--Civil Rights, African Americans--Suffrage, African Americans--Segregation
- Civil Rights movements
- African American Theater
- African American Soldiers,
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- Individuals (last name, first name) e.g. Powell, Colin or Carver, George Washinton
- african-americans, afro-americans, blacks
- names of events/concepts/legislation e.g. civil rights, harlem renaissance, jim crow, montgomery bus boycott
- names of individuals e.g. martin luther king jr., booker t. washington, malcolm x, rosa parks
- names of groups e.g. tuskeegee airmen, naacp, national black caucus
Subject headings
Reid Library Catalog / I-Share Catalog
Databases to Use for Finding Articles
- Academic Search Premier
- Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis)
- ArticleFirst
- Harper's Weekly (Not available off-campus)
- SocINDEX with Full Text
Internet Resources
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History and Culture http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/History_and_Culture/AfricanAmerican_History.htm
- African American Mosaic presented by the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
- U.S. State Department: African American History Month http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/African_American_History_Month.html
- Open Directory: African-American History http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/African/African-American/History/
- Welcome to African American History! (from the Dred Scott case on) http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/
- NPL, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.htm
- African American World: Reference Room (from PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles.html
- About.com's African American History Page Subject Library http://afroamhistory.about.com/mlibrary.htm
- Documenting the American South (Subject Heading Index) http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/subject
- Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/index.html
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