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To find general information on African Americans, perform a KEYWORD SEARCH using GIL@CSU, the online catalog.

SUGGESTED SUBJECT HEADINGS FOR SEARCHING THE ONLINE CATALOG

African Americans AND
Biography Minorities
Civil rights Race
Ethnic groups Slavery
Hip hop Social life
Mass media Southern states

Encyclopedia of African American religions / REF BR563.N4 E53 1993

Contemporary Black biography / REF DT18.C66

African American generals and flag officers: biographies of over 120 Blacks in the United States military / REF E181.H38 1993

Civil rights in the United States / REF E184.A1 C47 2000

Atlas of African-American history / REF E185.C55 2001

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
/  REF E185.E54 1995

The Harvard guide to African-American history / REF E185.H325 2001

The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights: from emancipation to the twenty-first century / REF E185.61.E54 2003

African American lives / REF E185.96.A446 2004

African Americans and the Oscar: seven decades of struggle and achievement
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REF PN1995.9.N4 M29 2003 

African-American writers / REF PS153.N5 B214 2004

African American poets: lives, works, and sources / REF PS153.N5 P48 2002

Praeger handbook of Black American health: policies and issues behind disparities in health / REF RA448.5.N4 H364 2004

African Americans at war: an encyclopedia / REF U52.S88 2004

 

The Library of Congress: American Memory Explore 17 digital collections devoted to African American history.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting African American experiences.  Explore collections, digital images & texts, and online exhibitions.
blackenterprise.com Small business, investment, personal finance, career, real estate, and lifestyle news.
Documenting the American South A digitization project sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill featuring ten collections of primary sources for the study of Southern history, literature, and culture.
National Urban League Official website of the National Urban League.
NAACP Official website of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, making democracy work since 1909.
Voice of the Shuttle Mega-site of African American web links maintained by Dr. Alan Liu and the English Dept. at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA  
The APEX Museum The African American Panoramic Experience.  Atlanta's premiere African American History Museum....25 years of educating the world.
Atlanta Tribune Black Atlanta's leading source for business, careers, technology, and wealth-building.
Georgia African American History and Culture Browse biographies and additional information on African Americans with Georgia ties.  Sponsored by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, UGA.
The King Center Dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sweet Auburn Historic District Sweet Auburn was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.  Read essays on Antebellum Atlanta and the African American Experience.
Auburn Avenue Research Library A Special Library of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library System offering specialized reference and archival collections for the study and research of African cultures.


Select the GENDER AND MULTICULTURAL STUDIES link under the GALILEO subject tab --SOCIAL SCIENCES to see a complete listing of databases available.  Off campus access requires the GALILEO password.

Suggested  Databases for African American Studies Research

Academic Search Complete (at EBSCOhost) Comprehensive coverage of full-text articles and citations from popular magazines and academic journals covering all subjects.
African American Biographical Database (AABD) Full-text access to biographies of thousands of African Americans with photographs and illustrations.
African-American Poetry: 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey) Full-text access to poems by African American poets in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
America: History & Life Provided by Clayton State University Library. Comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.  Off campus access requires a user ID (ccsulib) and password.
Facts on File Provided by Clayton State University Library. Answers questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years. It also delivers maps, photographs, historic documents, and special overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1940.  Off campus access requires a user ID (ccsulib) and password.
JSTOR
JSTOR Remote (off campus)
Provided by Clayton State University Library. Multi-disciplinary full-text database providing scholarly journal articles extending back to the 19th century.  Off campus access requires a user ID and password. JSTOR Remote Instructions
Research Library (at ProQuest) Full-text articles (from 1991 - ) and citations (from 1986 - ) from popular magazines and academic journals covering all subjects.
SKS WebSelect Directory of web resources on most subjects, plus topics and featured web sites of special interest.
Wilson Social Sciences Full Text Full-text articles and citations on social sciences topics.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Full-text articles and citations on most topics.

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