Juneteenth: Websites

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive cultural destination devoted exclusively to exploring, documenting and showcasing the African American story and its impact on American and world history.

This Library of Congress collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited transcripts was assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. In 2000-2001, with major support from the Citigroup Foundation, the Library digitized the narratives from the microfilm edition and scanned from the originals 500 photographs, including more than 200 that had never been microfilmed or made publicly available. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs divisions of the Library of Congress.

The National Archives for Black Women's History documents the legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune. The archives collects materials about and illustrating Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Council of Negro Women, other African American women's organizations, and individuals associated with those organizations. The archives also documents the ongoing preservation and interpretation of the Bethune legacy. The archives collects information in all media with a special focus on the years of Mary McLeod Bethune's life, 1875-1955.

BlackPast.org is a web-based reference center that is dedicated primarily to the understanding of African-American history and the history of people of African ancestry.

The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.

A collection of resources focusing on African American History.

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

The Amistad Research Center is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.

The Indiana University Archives of African American Music and Culture, established in 1991, is a material repository covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.

Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century.

The official web site of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. This organization was co-founded in 1987 by Rosa Parks and Elaine Eason Steele, in honor of Rosa Parks' husband Raymond Parks (1903-1977). In part, its mission is to motivate young people between the ages of 11-17, to reach their full potential.

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic justice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

The Civil Rights Movement was a pivotal and unified drive to ensure that African Americans and other minority groups had full human and civic rights. While the struggle for equality was ever-continuing in all decades since the Civil War, the events that originated in Montgomery, Alabama, during the mid-1950s propelled the fight against injustice to a new plateau. With narratives both negative and positive, the involvement of Maxwell Air Force Base in the Movement is history that deserves to be explored. This LibGuide will focus on the Civil Rights Movement specific to Maxwell and the greater Montgomery area and provide resources for further research, exploration, and discussion.

Diversity and inclusion is directly correlated to healthier dynamics in various environments, better mental health, and increased retention from an employment perspective. In depth knowledge of differences, insight on present and past challenges, and data is essential in formulating a plan to cultivate and create cultures of change. This process entails research, dialogue, and awareness to invoke empathy, devise new policies and procedures, and to foster elimination of biases with cohesiveness and unity being the goal. Resources in this LibGuide are helpful in understanding the plight and reality of various marginalized groups. This research guide is not a comprehensive listing of sources, but is intended to be a starting point from which students can begin their research according to their specific needs.