Black Studies: Primary Sources

A collection featuring award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.

Look for African Newspapers - more than 40 newspapers published between 1800 and 1922 in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

This exhibition was curated to enable our researchers easy access to the Special Research Collections (SRC) primary resources on the Black Panther Party and other African American Historical sources.

This exhibit honoring student activists of 1968 was originally produced as a physical exhibit in UCSB Library's Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection from October 2018 through March 2019. It opened in Fall 2018 in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the North Hall Takeover by students on October 14, 1968. Some of these photos are permanently installed in the Black Studies Department at UCSB in South Hall.

These documents are from the African American residents of Samaná who emigrated in 1824 from different ports along the Eastern United States to what was then the Republic of Haiti (1822-1844). Many of these new immigrants were given land and established communities in Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, and Samaná in what is today the Dominican Republic. The collection contains birth, marriage, and baptismal records from Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal and St. Peter's Evangelical Churches in Samaná, Dominican Republic, ranging from 1909-1970.