Items available online have been grouped together into collections, which give the items meaning in a broader context. The following list and groupings are a sampling of the material related to African American history available from the Library of the Congress and other partner agencies.
Please note: This list represents only a selection of the digital and physical holdings of the participating agencies.
Art & Design
- African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting (Smithsonian Institution)
- The Art of Romare Bearden (National Gallery of Art)
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (National Gallery of Art)
- The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey – Where Art and History Intersect (Smithsonian Institution)
- Martin Puryear (National Gallery of Art)
- Selected African American Artists at the National Gallery of Art
Baseball
Civil Rights
- Abraham Lincoln Papers (Library of Congress)
- Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling (National Archives)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 (National Archives)
- Confrontation Between Black Demonstrators and Segregationists at a "White Only" Beach (World Digital Library) (extertnal link)
- Frederick Douglass: American Visionary (National Park Service)
- The Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress)
- Frederick Douglass Virtual Museum Exhibit (National Park Service)
- Freedom Riders (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) (external link)
- March on Washington Tour from the National Archives on HistoryPin (external link)
- NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom (Library of Congress)
- Official Program for the March on Washington (National Archives)
- Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling (National Archives)
- Voices of Civil Rights Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- Voting Rights Act of 1965 (National Archives)
- With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty Exhibition (Library of Congress)
Culture & Folklife
- The African American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
- African American Heritage and Ethnography (National Park Service)
- African American Heritage in the Golden Crescent (National Park Service)
- African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 (Library of Congress)
- Discover Amazing Americans: Activist Mary Church Terrell (Library of Congress)
- First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (Library of Congress)
- Mary Church Terrell's journal, written in French and German, of her 1888-1890 study tour in Europe (Library of Congress)
- Portrait of Black Chicago (National Archives)
- The Progress of a People Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- StoryCorps Griot Project (Smithsonian Institution/CPB)
Government & Politics
Historic Places (National Park Service)
- African Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Africanisms
- Mapping the Buffalo Soldiers Sites
- National Register of Historic Places celebrates African American History Month
- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary entitled "We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement"
- National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
- Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures Travel Itinerary highlighting NPS parks significant to various peoples, including African Americans:
Military
- African-Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles, Stories from the Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
- Buffalo Soldiers: The 92nd in Italy (Library of Congress)
- Legends of Tuskegee (National Park Service)
- Liljenquist Collection of Civil War Photos (Library of Congress)
- Lt. Henry O. Flipper's Quest for Justice: "As honorable a record in the Army as any officer in it" (National Archives)
- Soldiers in Uniform (World Digital Library) (extertnal link)
- The Spirit of Tuskegee Blog (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution) (external link)
- The Tuskegee Airmen (National Park Service)
- The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs (Library of Congress)
Music & Performing Arts
- African American Band Music and Recordings, 1883-1923 (Library of Congress)
- African Americans in the Performing Arts (Library of Congress)
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (Library of Congress)
- Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress)
- "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (Library of Congress)
- Photos of the Harlem Renaissance (Library of Congress)
- Ragtime (Library of Congress)
- Song of America: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors (Library of Congress)
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress)
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays (Library of Congress)
Religion
Slavery
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
- The District of Columbia Emancipation Act (National Archives)
- The Emancipation Proclamation (National Archives)
- First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (Library of Congress)
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (Library of Congress)
- Grabo. The Armistad [sic] Negroes, Drawn from Life, by Wm. H. Townsend. (World Digital Library) (extertnal link)
- Portrait of Mauma Mollie (World Digital Library) (extertnal link)
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)
- Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty (Smithsonian Institution & The Thomas Jefferson Foundation) (external link
- Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children, 1908 (Library of Congress)
- The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters by William Still, 1871 (Library of Congress)
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (Library of Congress)
- Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave database (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) (external link)
Resource Guides (Library of Congress)
- Bibliographies and Guides -- Genealogical
- Web Guides -- African American History
- African American Business Resources
- The African American Mosaic: Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
- African American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines
- African American Science Books for Younger Readers
- African Business Guide
- Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate, 1985-86
- Langston Hughes and His Poetry
- Law Library of Congress - Legislative and Executive Branch Documents
- Library of Congress – African & Middle East Reading Room
- Primary Documents in American History: Emancipation Proclamation
- Rita Dove, U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95
Profiles
 John Hope Franklin Author and scholar |
 Congressman Major Owens Library of Congress Kluge Scholar |
 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad operative and Union Army spy |
 Carter G. Woodson Author, scholar and founder of African American History Month |
 Stevie Wonder Musician, 2009 Gershwin Prize Winner |
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