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• A Bibliography of African American Family History at the Newberry Library

  Describes the African-American genealogy resources in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.

• A Separate Flame: Western Branch: The First African-American Public Library

  Louisville, Kentucky.

• A. Philip Randolph/Pullman Porter Museum Gallery

  Chicago, Illinois museum celebrating this leader in the African American labor movement and the African American Railroad Attendant.

  • Pullman Porter National Historic Registry of the African-American Railroad Employees

• African American Monuments, Museums and Memorials

  Links to African American museums, monuments and cultural sites.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• African American Museum of Harrisburg

  Pennsylvania.

• African American Resources

  From the Georgia Archives.

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia - A Guide To Manuscripts

• Amistad Research Center

• Association of African American Museums

• Black Archives of Mid-America

  A collaboration between the Black Archives of Mid-America Inc. and Kansas City Public Library, funded by the Missouri State Library.

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania Department: African-American Genealogy

• Center for American History

  Austin, Texas. From the University of Texas at Austin.

  • Research and Collections Division

    • Newspapers

      The Center's Newspaper Collections contain more than 4,500 Texas, Southern, U.S., and non-U. S. titles and is the largest collection of its kind in Texas.

      • Texas Newspaper Collection by Ethnic, Religious, Professional or Political Orientation

        Listing of more than 600 Texas newspapers indexed by ethnic, religious, professional, or political orientation .

    • Subject Guides to Collections

      • African-American History Resources - Table of Contents

      • Genealogy Research Resources

      • Plantation Resources

      • Slaves and Slavery Resources

• Connecticut State Library

  • History and Genealogy Unit

    • Research Guide to African-American Genealogical Resources at the Connecticut State Library

• Harriet Tubman Home

  Auburn, New York.

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania

  Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

  • Balch Manuscript Guide

    • African American

• Indiana Historical Bureau

  • Indiana African-American Resources

    Researching African-American History in the Indiana State Library and Historical Building.

• Library of Congress

  • African American Odyssey

    • African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

    • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

    • From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909

  • African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

  • Local History and Genealogy Reading Room

    • African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress

      Bibliography listed in order of surname.

    • Afro-American Genealogical Research

  • The African-American Mosaic Exhibition

    A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.

• Library of Michigan

  • Abrams Collection: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • African-American Research Resources

    Bibliography from the Library of Michigan.

• Maryland State Archives African American Resources

• Merseyside Maritime Museum

  Liverpool, England.

  • Transatlantic Slavery - Against Human Dignity

    • The Trade Triangle