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Black History Month: Databases

A guide celebrating African American [Black] History Month!

Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography Assata's memoirs, told in the frame work of the turbulent late '60s and '70s produces not only a autobiography or activism but a fascinating personal history of the period.

 

Black Music
Black Music Baraka explores results and future implications of jazz music by discussing the major artists, performances and compositions that shaped the genre.

 

Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves, and Demons of Marvin Gaye by Michael Eric Dyson
Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves, and Demons of Marvin Gaye by Michael Eric Dyson Dyson's "biocriticism" paints a new story on the late singer's musicianship, spirituality, and sexuality.

 

The Black Panther
The Black Panther Considered the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party, it distributed information about the party's activities and ideologies, focusing on both international revolutions as inspiration and contemporary racial struggles of African Americans across the United States.
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
Includes interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience, a Timeline, full-text readings, images, and other related materials.
Schomburg Essays
Required Reading
Timeline Related Materials
Timeline
Video
Images
Reference
Journals The International Index to Black Periodicals covers scholarly and popular Black Studies journals, including full text for many titles. The Marshall Index is a guide to black periodicals, 1940-1946. 
Newspapers The full text backfile of major black newspapers. 
Black Literature Index Over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.