Resources on Race, Racial Relations, and the Black Experience in the U.S.: Primary Sources

Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. It has over 1,750,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting.

The Ethnic NewsWatch database contains news, culture and history from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press.

The Chicago Defender is the oldest and most respected African-American newspaper in Chicago. The Chicago Defender was a weekly newspaper from 1909-1956, when it switched to daily coverage.

The Chicago Defender is the oldest and most respected African-American newspaper in Chicago. The Chicago Defender was a weekly newspaper from 1909-1956, when it switched to daily coverage

Documenting the American South (DAS) is a searchable and browsable collection of full-text sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. The Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DAS, and the texts come primarily from its Southern holdings.

This historical (African American-owned) newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.