African American Music Appreciation Month: Websites

Images from the State of Florida Division of Library and Information Services.

over 7,500 manuscripts/documents and 2,500 photographs from the Rosa Parks Papers

George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

A 21st Century Archive of African American Studies, Princeton University

includes digital images of the arrest records and fingerprints card

For over 50 years, the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans has developed and housed archives that document the modern Civil Rights Movement.

from the website: A selection of 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Smithsonian Institute, American Art Museum, Washington DC