The following audio and video presentations are a sampling of the material related to African American history available from participating agencies. These include Webcasts as well as musical recordings and unique sound artifacts, such as the stories of African Americans.
Civil Rights
- An American Conversation with John Hope Franklin - The Historian and the African American Experience (National Archives)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. audio podcasts from the National Archives on iTunes (external link)
- Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (Library of Congress)
- Nick Kotz: Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws That Changed America (Library of Congress)
- Robert L Carter: A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights (Library of Congress)
Folklife
- American Folklife Center: National Visionary Leadership Project Showcase (Library of Congress)
- Opalanga Pugh: African-American Storytelling from Colorado with Askia Toure on Voice and Drum (Library of Congress)
History
- 200th Anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1808 (National Archives)
- A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role: Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda, Queen of Buganda - Republic of Uganda (Library of Congress)
- African-Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles, Stories from the Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
- An American Conversation with Lonnie Bunch - Remembrance and Reality: The New African American Museum (National Archives)
- Carla L. Peterson: Black Gotham: A Family History (Library of Congress)
- Early African American Life (Library of Congress)
Music and Performing Arts
- Concert in Honor of African American History Month by Celeste Headlee and Danielle DeSwert (National Gallery of Art)
- Jazz on the Screen (Library of Congress)
- Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress)
- Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz (Library of Congress)
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress)
- Stevie Wonder Performs "Sketches of a Life" (Library of Congress)
- Stevie Wonder Discusses "Sketches of a Life" (Library of Congress)
- “Now What a Time”: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (Library of Congress)
Poetry and Literature
- An Evening with Chinua Achebe (Library of Congress)
- David Kresh: Langton Hughes and His Poetry (Library of Congress)
- E. Ethelbert Miller Interview (Library of Congress)
- Journeys and Crossings: Langston Hughes and His Poetry (Library of Congress)
- Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston) (Library of Congress)
Religion and Philosophy
- Lamin Sanneh: Sacred Truth & Secular Agency: Shari'ah Norms and Political Enforcement (Library of Congress)
Slavery and Emancipation
- 200th Anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1808 (National Archives)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
- Emancipation Proclamation 150th Anniversary at the National Archives (National Archives YouTube Channel) (external link)
- Exodus to Kansas: The Exoduster Movement (National Archives YouTube Channel) (external link)
- Let No Man Put Asunder: Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records (National Archives YouTube Channel) (external link)
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (Library of Congress)
- What Did The Emancipation Proclamation Accomplish? (National Endowment for the Humanities)