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Community College Library Services has many resources related to Black history. Here are titles from several eBook collections that relate to the 2015 BHM theme.
E185 .C34 2012 ebk – eBooks on EBSCOhost
Voices of the African American Experience. E184.6 .V65 2009 ebk - Gale Virtual Reference Library
This work includes speeches, articles, mission statements, testimonies, letters, sermons, prayers, spirituals/songs, slave narratives, memoirs, essays, interviews, and more.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. E185 .E545 2009 ebk - Oxford Reference Online
From the Reconstruction Era to the Civil Rights Movement the encyclopedia covers events and the influence of African American culture on American and global cultures.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. E185 .E54 2006 ebk - Gale Virtual Reference Library
This work includes the African diaspora: French Guiana, Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Suriname, the English-speaking Caribbean, the Netherlands Antilles, and more are covered, as well as North America and the United States.
Encyclopedia of African American Music. ML101.U6 E53 2011 ebk - eBooks on EBSCOhost
Folk, religious, concert, and popular styles are featured, along with essays on a range of topics, genres, groups, individuals, and historical topics.
African Americans in the Visual Arts. N6538.N5 O86 2010 ebk - Gale Virtual Reference Library
This work provides entries not only on fine artists and film makers, but also includes comic strip artists and quilters.
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema. PN1995.9.N4 B433 2007 ebk - Gale Virtual Reference Library
These alphabetically arranged entries describe a wide variety of films portraying African Americans, with brief biographies of actors, producers, directors, and others who created the films.
Encyclopedia of African American Writing: Five Centuries of Contribution.... PS153.N5 A3444 2009 ebk - Gale Virtual Reference LibraryThis biographical work focuses on novelists, essayists, scholars, activists, critics, teachers, poets, playwrights, and songwriters.
Icons of African American Literature: The Black literary World. PS153.N5 I35 2011 ebk - Gale Virtual Reference LibraryTwenty-four popular and culturally significant writers are examined, as well as a range of cultural topics, such as the black arts movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the jazz aesthetic.
African-American Art. N6538.N5 P38 1998 ebk - eBooks on EBSCOhostThe author examines works of the New Negro Movement of the 1920s, the Civil Rights and Black Nationalism era of the 1960s and 70s, and the emergence of new black artists and theorists in the 1980s and 90s.
Two representative films for the period from 1915 – 2013 are
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These popular websites appear on many Black History Month lists of information sources.
Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)
National Archives
The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
National Civil Rights Museum
National Museum of African American History and Culture
(Smithsonian; opens March 1, 2015)
Black History Teaching Resources
Smithsonian Education
National Park Service
African American Odyssey
Library of Congress. American Memory
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Digital Schomburg
Black History Month - Infoplease
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
King Papers Project at Stanford University
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
PBS African American World
History.com: Black History Month
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