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A collection featuring award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.
University of California's public gateway to more than 150,000 digitized primary sources such as photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other cultural artifacts.
Materials Indexed: Artworks; Newspaper Articles; Interviews; Oral History Interviews; Photographs
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.
All documents in this exhibition are from the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library. They consist of:
Bay Area Black Panther Party collection, CEMA 56
James Baldwin correspondence, Mss 329
NAACP and Civil Rights ephemera collection, Mss 331
Wire Service Photographs: Jim Crow era and Civil Rights Movement collection, Mss 339
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.
The exhibition photos were taken from El Cumbre, the yearbook of student life at UCSB from the late 1960's. In 1968, students staged a North Hall Takeover, that led to the establishment of two of the first Black Studies and Chicano Studies Departments in the nation. These photos demonstrate students' rise of consciousness, activism and joy.
All documents in this exhibition are from UCSB Library's Special Research Collections.
Curatorial assistance for the digital version of the exhibition provided by Alana Beal.
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is a collection of over 3,000 video oral histories. The testimonies reveal the broad scope of narratives of African American men and women who have made significant contributions to American life, history, and culture during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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Date Coverage: 1912 - present; 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
Materials Indexed: Archival Materials, Biographical Information, Transcripts, Video
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.
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. The digitized items include photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California
Materials Indexed: Artworks; Newspaper Articles; Interviews; Oral History Interviews; Photographs
Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) offers 35,000 images from eleven California museums (UC and non-UC). There are two ways to access this database -- by using the web interface or by using the Insight® Client software. Web access is available from library user workstations or via the library proxy server.
Date Coverage: all time periods
Materials Indexed: Artworks; Pamphlets; Photographs
