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African American

African American History & Culture (Library of Congress) The Manuscript Division has one of the nation's most valuable collections for the study of African-American history and culture. The Library's holdings include information about slavery and the slave trade as well as other aspects of plantation life. Papers of slaveholders provide one view of slavery, and slave narratives give another. Diaries and journals further illuminate lives spent in slavery and freedom.

African American History & Culture (Smithsonian) Learn about African American history and culture.

African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets. (Ohio Historical Society)

Biography in Context (The Gale Group) -- A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Searchable by person, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

Biography Resource Center: African Americans A database of biographical information on more than 25,000 people from more than 60 volumes of 6 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Black Biography, Notable Black American Men, Notable Black American Scientists, and Who's Who among African Americans, with over 42,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines including American History, Essence, Jet, and U.S. News & World Report.

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