LibGuides: Black History Month: Databases and Collections

Databases

Civil Rights in America: From Reconstruction to the Great Society
An archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States.
HeinOnline: Civil Rights and Social Justice
A database of government documents, reports, and legal documents pertaining to civil rights and social justice.
Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement (Gale Archives Unbound)
A collection of poet icon and revolutionary political activist Amiri Baraka's work with over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism.
Ebony Magazine Archive
Ebony Magazines archive issues. Full text ranging from 1945-2014.

Living While Black
This digital exhibition is a journey to unveiling the often unknown, dismissed, and even hidden excellence of African Americans in the US. 
National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Style Guide
NABJ Style is offered as a style book for newsrooms and others on terms and language usage of special interest or relevance to our membership and our community. It is meant to be as much a resource for our own members as for anyone else in newsrooms and journalism classrooms as well as other students, educators and researchers, etc.
HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection
Access and browse the digital collections from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The collection includes photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, images of campus buildings, alumni letters, memorabilia, and programs from campus events, representing HBCUs as cultural, social, and political institutions from the early 1800s until today.