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• Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

  Washington, D.C. One of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.

• Museum of African-American History

  Detroit, Michigan.

• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

  National Park museum under construction in Cincinnati. Will contain records pertaining to all slavery-era persons. Collecting oral history on Underground Railroad sites and stories.

• New Orleans Public Library

  • City Archives and Louisiana Division Special Collections

    • A Guide to African American Genealogical Research in New Orleans and Louisiana

    • African American Resource Center

    • African-American Genealogical Materials

• Parting Ways: The Museum of Afro-American & Cape Verdean History, Inc.

• Pennsylvania State Archives

  • African American Resources

• Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

  Durham, North Carolina.

  • African-American Women - On-line Archival Exhibits

  • John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation

  • Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library

    Broadside Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University.

• Researching Your African-American Ancestors

  From the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

• Richard B. Harrison Library - Mollie Huston Lee Collection

  North Carolina.

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  From the New York Public Library.

• St. Louis County Library

  Missouri.

  • Genealogy and Local - Special Collections Department

    Includes holdings from: St. Louis Genealogical Society Collection (STLGS), The National Genealogical Society Book Loan Collection (NGS), The Julius K. Hunter and Friends African American Research Collection (JKH), The Mary F. Berthold Collection, The Jewish Genealogical Society of St. Louis Collection, Yizkor Book Collection.

• The Black Fashion Museum

  The Black Fashion Museum in Washington DC acknowledges the achievements and contributions of people from the African Diaspora to the apparel industry.

• The Museum of African Slavery

• The Museum of Afro-American History Boston

  Massachusetts.

• The Walker African-American Museum & Research Center

  Nevada.

• Western Reserve Historical Society Library

  Cleveland, Ohio. Serving Ashland, Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Summit & Trumbull counties.

  • African American Archives

    The African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society's purpose is to collect, preserve and make accessible historic documents, memorabilia, art, and artifacts pertaining to African American life, history and culture in Northeast Ohio and beyond.