AFR202: The Black Archive: Home

Visual narratives of modern Black life across the Diaspora, from the history of Chicago's South Side, to the origins of the LA Uprising, to the personal story of Lauryn Hill."

Historian Jessica Marie Johnson's Tumblr "exploring black diasporic visual culture across time and space." See also #ADPhD

Preserving the legacy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

An independent community-based archive established in 2015, collecting artifacts that document police killings of Black people. Connected to the call to #ArchiveBlackLives.

An independent archive housed on the campus of Tulane University. "The holdings include the papers of artists, educators, authors, business leaders, clergy, lawyers, factory workers, farmers and musicians." Focused on race relations, civil rights, and the African Diaspora in the US.

"The Archives Research Center’s collections primarily document the African American experience through civil rights, race relations, education, literature, visual and performing arts, religion, politics, and social work."

The John Hope Franklin Research Center "collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in the Americas."

One of the largest collections of women's history, featuring notable African American women such as June Jordan, Pauli Murray, Florynce Kennedy, Ana Livia Cordero, and the Black Women's Oral History Project.

The Schomburg Center is considered one of the most significant collections of African diaspora history, holding more than 10 million items. Features "unique, and primary materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent throughout the world, with a concentration on the Americas and the Caribbean."

"The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office." Led by Librarian Carla Hayden, the LOC seeks to make American cultural heritage more accessible through digitization.

A growing collection of digitized materials, in the public domain or available for re-use through creative commons licenses.

"New York Public Library's digital collections provide access to over 800,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, fashion plates, printed ephemera, and more."

An internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, archives, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. For a list of collections on Black Women, use this GUIDE.

Downloadable public domain photographs, as well as documents, orders, and speeches of the US Marine Corps. Documents United States military intervention in Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the Virgin Islands.

Materials from (or related to) the migration by sea of Cubans, Dominicans, and Haitians, including the refugee camp for Cuban and Haitian rafters that existed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, largely dating from 1991-1996. Includes newspapers in Spanish and Haitian Kreyol, as well as photographs of rafters and rescuers, and camp residents from the US Coast Guard archives.