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Primary and selected secondary sources for research in African American Studies at Princeton University.

Primary Sources

Black Thought and Culture     

Full-text collection of published non-fiction works is included, as well as interviews, journal articles, letters, and other materials of leading African-Americans. Biographical essays by leading scholars and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database are also featured.

The Claude A. Barnett papers.  Barnett was founder of the Associate Negro Press.

General Education Board Archives

Collection, covering 1901-1967, reveals the inner workings of the GEB; shows how it specifically aided countless African-American schools, teachers, and students throughout the South; and illustrates the tense race relations of the early twentieth century and the efforts of determined leaders to overcome hostility.

Horace Mann Bond PapersBond was a college administrator and social science researcher.

Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1922-1955

ReCap Microfilm 10234          Online guide      Printed guide (FilmB) E185.97.B34 A3         13 reels

Administrative records of Mary McLeodBethune as president of Bethune-Cookman College including general correspondence, special correspondence, subject files, and financial records.

Mary McLeod Bethune Papers.  Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women and Bethune-Cookman University.

Papers of John and Lugenia Burns Hope.  John Hope was the first African-descended president of both Morehouse College and of Atlanta University.

 

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Encyclopedias

The African American almanac.

Includes coverage of such topics as: Africa and the Black diaspora; education; film and television; landmarks; national organizations; population; religion; science and technology; and sports.

Encyclopedia of African-American education.  Edited by Faustine C. Jones-Wilson ... [et al.]. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.  Also in (F) LC2717 .E53 1996

Oxford African American Studies Center  

Access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. At its core, OAASC includes the new Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; the second edition of Black Women in America; and African American National Biography. Also includes the highly acclaimed Africana, a five volume history of the African and African American experience. In addition to these major reference works, OAASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference series, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.