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#BlackLivesMatter and Anti-Racism

Books, articles, films, statistics, and primary sources on the ongoing Movement for Black Lives

Africana Primary Sources Online

For online (digitized) archival materials held at institutions in California, search Calisphere. For those held at institutions across the United States, search the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

Online resources for African American History:

Digital Collections Databases:

United States

Africa

Caribbean

Historical Black Press

  • Full-page and article images from the Los Angeles Sentinel, the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S., covering issues concerning the African-American community and its readers.
  • Digital archive of more than 270 historically significant African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • Full-text digital archive of the influential black newspaper Chicago Defender.
  • Full-text digital archive of the influential black newspapers Chicago Defender and Daily Defender.
  • Chronicles the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of an independent alternative press. Independent Voices provides over 1,000 titles from the special collections of dozens of libraries. Independent Voices provides easy access to the voices of feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, gays, lesbians and more.This collection contains 12,992 issues comprising 388,368 pages.

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