
To find general
information on African Americans, perform a KEYWORD
SEARCH using GIL@CSU, the
online catalog.
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Ethnic groups |
Slavery |
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Hip hop |
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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


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The Library of Congress: American Memory |
Explore 17 digital
collections devoted to African American history. |
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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. |
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blackenterprise.com |
Small business, investment,
personal finance, career, real estate, and lifestyle
news. |
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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. |
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National
Urban League |
Official website of the
National Urban League. |
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NAACP |
Official website of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, making democracy work since 1909. |
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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. |
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA |
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The
APEX Museum |
The African American
Panoramic Experience. Atlanta's premiere
African American History Museum....25 years of
educating the world. |
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Atlanta
Tribune |
Black Atlanta's leading
source for business, careers, technology, and
wealth-building. |
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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. |
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The
King Center |
Dedicated to the advancement
of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Sweet Auburn Historic District |
Sweet Auburn was designated a
National Historic Landmark in 1976. Read
essays on Antebellum Atlanta and the African
American Experience. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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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