The African American Experience

African American Labor History Links - American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Links to the full text of articles and documents related to the African American labor experience.

African American Odyssey - Library of Congress

African-Americans in the U.S. Army- U.S. Army Center for Military History
Includes reproduced documents and photos of the African American experience in the U.S. Army.

Archival Research Catalog (ARC) - The National Archives
See: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/african-americans.html for search tips and sample keywords to use when searching ARC.  This site includes fugitive slave documents, Kentucky internment records, Tuskegee syphilis study records, 1940s sketches by Charles Alston.

The Church in the Southern Black Community - Documenting the American South
Includes biographies, autobiographies, church documents, sermons, histories, etc.

Documenting Our Past: the Teenie Harris Archive Project - University of Pittsburgh
Photographs of Teenie Harris (photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier) documenting the black urban experience in Pittsburgh.  The collection is in progress with the goal of 3,600 photographs.

First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 - American Memory Project
Documents the culture of 19th century American South.  Includes diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts and ex-slave narratives of prominent and "other relatively inaccessible populations:  women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans."

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century - New York Public Library Digital Library Collections, Digital Schomburg

Our Black Heritage.com - National Institute for Fathers and Families, Inc.
Documents related to the military, slavery and freedom and some newspaper clippings.

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