Subject and Course Guides: African and African American Studies: Home

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This is a guide to finding resources about African and African American history and literature. There are links to primary (original sources) and secondary (articles, encyclopedia, books) sources, music and movies on DVD and VHS. Great websites are also included on this guide. If you need additional assistance, please send me a message.

--Charlene

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Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Modern and historical essays, journals, newspapers, fiction, literature, and poetry on the African diaspora experience. Includes the historical Chicago Defender newspaper. Material comes from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Full-Text)
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
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American History in Video is a collection of nearly 6,800 videos relevant to the study of American history, such as the complete series of the United Newsreel, award-wining documentaries, and dramatic reenactments of historical events. Key historical eras represented here are Civil Rights, Apartheid, and the Jazz Era.
American Music This link opens in a new window
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Popular music from throughout American history. (Streaming Audio)

Nebraska Black Homesteaders-DeWitty
Artes Johnson, one of the DeWitty Descendents in Cherry County, Nebraska
Great Plains Museum –Lincoln in Black and White Virtual exhibit
Virtual Exhibit based on Lincoln in Black and White (book) LIncoln, Nebraska
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African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska

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