Library Resources on African-American History

Online Books

            Search the netLibrary eBook Collection for more titles. 

            Off-campus access requires username and password: Tipsheet or Video

Honoring the Ancestors

African Americans on the Western Frontier

            Search the new History E-Book Project database for books like:
                 To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter
 

View information on Maya Angelou from the Biography Resource Center database.
    Access book excerpts, articles, and selected Websites on others, such as Colin Powell and Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot.
 

Videos owned by Chattanooga State

Online Videos available through the United Streaming Videos database 

Books available in the library

Geier Grant Book Titles
Time Magazine's "list of must-reads in African-American literature and writings"
The New Books Display celebrates the African-American culture.

Selected Websites

Programs from Public Broadcasting

African American Lives (showing this month on your PBS station)
African American World
Slavery and the Making of America

The African-American Mosaic
    "A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture"

Black History Month
    Free resources from Thomson Gale

Celebrate Black History Month
    History Channel's biographies of famous African-Americans

The Internet African American History Challenge
    "An interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American History

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
   "The King Papers Project is a major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated."

Snapshots in Time:  The Public in the Civil Rights Era
    The nonpartisan research organization, Public Agenda Online, looks at public opinion between 1950-1965.

Understanding Prejudice 
    "The purpose of the site is to offer educational resources and information on prejudice, discrimination, multiculturalism, and diversity, with the ultimate goal of reducing the level of intolerance and bias in contemporary society."  (funding from the National Science Foundation and McGraw-Hill Higher Education)

Augusta R. Kolwyck Library
Chattanooga State Technical Community College    Chattanooga, TN
Created 02.03.04  Revised 02.10.06