LibGuides: Black History Resources: Collections and Archives

Oregon History

The Advocate
A weekly newspaper published from 1903-1936: "the only News Paper in the State of Oregon that can be depended upon to fight the battles peculiar to ‘THE RACE.’”
Possible Sundown Towns in Oregon
From roughly 1890 to 1968, white Americans enforced "sundown" status in thousands of towns across the United States. This link takes you to the Oregon page of a Tougaloo College project collecting info on these towns.
Oregon Remembrance Project
Confronting our history of racial injustice

Articles from the Oregon Historical Society's Oregon Encyclopedia:

Blacks in Oregon
From the Oregon Historical Society's Oregon Encyclopedia
Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon
Early laws that ensured Oregon would develop as primarily white.
Black Cowboys in Oregon
From the Oregon Encyclopedia, a resource of the Oregon Historical Society
Black Panthers in Portland
From Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society

Chronicling America
Digitized newspaper project from the Library of Congress (This link takes you to a list filtered on "African American.")
Schomburg Syllabus
An archive of educational resources relating to Black studies, movements, and experiences
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Published works with author biographies
Exploring Black LGBTQ Studies
The Queer Studies Collections at the Schomburg Center include resources spanning from 1921- 2014.
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Maps on the Black migration experience: the slave trade, the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, emigration from the U.S., and more
The Avalon Project
Federal and state statutes, treaties, and other documents

Slavery

Remembering Slavery
Interviews of Black Americans who experienced slavery, recorded between 1932 and 1975
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War
A Library of Congress collection

Jim Crow

The Green Book
"To give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trips more enjoyable."
Lynching in America

Civil Rights Movement

Freedom Summer
One of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records

Black Lives Matter

Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness
Resources on structural racism in the criminal justice system
Documenting Ferguson
Images and videos collected by Washington University from the 2014 protests.

Slave Voyages
Slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866: graphs, maps, a timeline, and an animation