Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
“The Prints and Photographs Division's substantial holdings of photographs, prints, posters, and drawings include many works relating to the history of blacks in America from the slavery period through the civil rights era. There is no single, comprehensive list of the holdings relating to African American history. It is best to make a selection by visiting the Prints and Photographs Division or by requesting images of specific people or events. Written requests for such images can be answered when limited to no more than fifteen items.”
Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Selected List. Images of prominent African Americans spanning the 20th century.
The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photograph Collection. Selected images from the Collections of the Library of Congress. The collection is primarily photographs taken by staff of the U.S. News & World Report Magazine between 1952 and 1986. Also included are images related to such issues as civil rights and the women's movement, cultural leaders and personalities are portrayed such as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War: A List of Images in the Civil War Photograph Collection of the Library of Congress. A selection of photographs in the Civil War Photograph Collection that include African Americans.
Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers. Includes all the known images of discrimination signs found in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information file of photographic prints.
The following publications include several pictures from the files of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Please note that only pictures credited specifically to the Library of Congress can be ordered from LC. In requesting copies of these pictures, send a photocopy of the image as well as a complete citation for the book from which it was taken (including page number). You may search the Prints and Photographs catalog for other images relating to African American history.
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. In the African American Studies Reading Room at Z1361.N39 L47 1993
Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. In Firestone Library at N8232 .B57 1990
Campbell, Edward D.C. Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South: To Accompany an Exhibition Organized by the Museum of the Confederacy. In Firestone Library at E443 .B44 1991
Cashman, Sean Dennis. African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990. Ebook.
Christopher, Maurine. Black Americans in Congress. Ebook.
Crew, Spencer R. Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940. In Firestone Library at E185.6 .C92 1987
Dumond, Dwight Lowell. Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America. Ebook.
Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton, eds. A History of the African American People: The History, Traditions & Culture of African Americans. In Firestone Library at E185 .H56 1997q Oversize
Hughes, Langston, Milton Meltzer, and C. Eric Lincoln. A Pictorial History of Blackamericans. In Firestone Library at E185 .H83 1983
Kaplan, Sidney. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800. In African American Studies Reading Room at E185.96 .K36 1973
Natanson, Nicholas. The Black Image in the New Deal: the Politics of FSA Photography. In Firestone Library at E185.6 .N245 1992
Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black Americans from 1850-1950. Use the link to request from storage.
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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 Online collection of academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other diverse periodicals.
"Selling Shadows and Substance: Photographing Race in the United States, 1850-1870," by Mandy Reid. Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 4, iss.no. 3, 2006 |
Brings together documentaries, interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains over 500 hours of film covering history, politics, art and culture, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Oral history interviews with more than 1,600 historically significant African Americans in fields such as the arts, business, education, entertainment, the law, the military, politics, religion, and science.