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Arts, Images, Literature, and Music

Arts and Images

• African-American/African Diaspora Studies Audiocassettes and Videotapes (UC Berkeley Library)
• African American Studies Digital Collection (Yale)
• Black Film Center/Archive (Indiana U.)
• California Newsreel
• Carl Van Vechten Photographs (Library of Congress)
• Civil War Photographs
• Digital Schomberg: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century. (NY Public Library) Searchable archive of photographs and images.
• Films/Videos About the African-American Experience (First Run/Icarus Films)
• Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Media Database (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities)

• African American Poetry Database (1760-1900) (Through Yale University Library)
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century  (Digital Schomberg Full Text)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (American Memory, LoC)
• Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920. (UNC Chapel Hill Library) Virtual library includes slave narratives and southern literature.
• Post-1900 African American Literature (William Paterson University)
• Texts by and about African-Americans from the Modern English Collection (UVA Electronic Text Center)

• African-American/African Diaspora Studies Audiocassettes and Videotapes (UC Berkeley Library)
• African-American Music Collection (UMich)
• African-American Music Websites (blackrefer.com)
• African-American Sheet Music (American Memory @ Library of Congress)
• Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana U.)
• Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (American Memory @ Library of Congress)
• Center for Southern African-American Music (U of South Carolina)
• Google: African-American Music Listings
• International Association of African-American Music
• Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
• Yahoo! African-American Music Listings

• Harlem 1900-1940:  An African American Community (Schomberg Center)
• Harlem:  Mecca of the New Negro
• The Harlem Renaissance (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Harlem Renaissance Poetry, Prose and Art Collection

Selected Databases & Internet Sites

• American Drama
• American Memory Culture, Folklife Collections
• Bibliography of the History of Art
• Black Thought and Culture
• Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to 1920
• Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
• Film Literature Index 1976-2001
• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877)
• History and Culture Smithsonian Institution
• History, Arts and Culture FirstGov
• Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
• Links to the Past Cultural Groups
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Index
• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• Vaudeville Nation New York Public Library

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