LibGuides at USA: African American History Month: Primary Sources

Digitized Images from USA Archives

University of South Alabama Archives: Alabama Mosaic
Digitized photographs from the USA Archives Collections. Dates vary.

ADAH Digital Archives: Selma to Montgomery March Photograph Collection
Works Progess Administration (WPA) Alabama Writer's Project
Collection contains several hundred ex-slave narratives, life histories, short stories, and folklore of Alabama life composed as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers’ Project during the Great Depression.

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AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries.

Papers of the NAACP
Call Number: FILM, University Library Microform Cabinets (2nd Floor South)
Shelved in the Monographs Microfilm cabinet.

The following list is just a small selection of the primary source materials in the USA Marx Library collection.

Check SOUTHcat for more titles.

Suggested search term: "african american" sources

Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle
Call Number: HD 8081 .A65 H66 1999, University Library Bookstacks
ISBN: 0520217748
African Americans in Congress : a documentary history
Call Number: JK 1021 .A47 2008, University Library Bookstacks
ISBN: 0872893855
The face of our past : images of Black women from colonial America to the present
Call Number: E 185.86 .F33 1999, University Library Bookstacks
ISBN: 025333635X