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Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
Public speech making has played a powerful role in the long struggle by African Americans for equal rights. This collection, for the ear and the eye, highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders. Their impassioned, eloquent words continue to affect the ideas of a nation and the direction of history.
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Documents drawn from resources from the National Archive of the United States addressing the transition from slavery to freedom from the beginning of the Civil War to the beginning of Reconstruction 1861-1867.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
From the Library of Congress American Memory, the site contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former enslaved people.
North American Slave Narratives
"North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920." (website description)
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Database with information relating to almost 35,000 slaving voyages.
Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860
Library of Congress collection "... Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States." 9website description)
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
This site provides access to primary sources and other materials concerning the black experience in U.S. history.
Cornell Hip Hop Digital Archive
Materials documenting the rise of hip-hop, especially in New York.
Black Craftspeople Archive
Primary source materials relating to black craftspeople in the U.S.

Books at Reed Library

Jim Crow America by Catherine M. Lewis (Editor); J. Richard Lewis (Editor)
Call Number: E185.61 .J527 2009
ISBN: 9781557288950
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
American Political Rhetoric: essential speeches and writings on founding principles and contemporary controversies by Peter Augustine Lawler; Robert Martin Schaefer
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781442202955
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Chapter 7 addresses civil rights and race.
Women and Slavery in America: a documentary history by Catherine M. Lewis; J. Richard Lewis
Call Number: 2nd floor HT1048 .W66 2011
ISBN: 9781557289582
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
The Slave's Narrative by Charles T. Davis (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
Call Number: E444 .S575 1985
ISBN: 9781280525384
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
This book is intended for Prizes won etc.
Dear Master by Randall M. Miller (Editor)
Call Number: E444 .D42
ISBN: 0801411343
Publication Date: 1978-07-31
American Negro Slavery by Michael Mullin (Editor)
Call Number: E441 .A577 1976
ISBN: 0872493393
Publication Date: 1976-03-01
A Documentary History of Slavery in North America by Willie L. Rose
Call Number: E441 .D64
ISBN: 0195019768
Publication Date: 1976-02-12
Documents of upheaval; selections from William Lloyd Garrison's the Liberator, 1831-1865
Call Number: E449 .L68
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer by Maegan Parker Brooks (Editor); Davis W. Houck (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781604738223
Publication Date: 2010-12-03
Freedom's Soldiers by Ira Berlin; Joseph P. Reidy (Editor); Leslie S. Rowland
Call Number: E185.2 .F88 v.2
ISBN: 0521632587
Publication Date: 1998-03-13
When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses. These moving letters, affidavits, and memorials - drawn from the records of the National Archives - reveal the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation.
Reporting Civil Rights Vol. 1 (LOA #137) by Clayborne Carson (Compiled by); David J. Garrow (Compiled by); Bill Kovach (Compiled by); Carol Polsgrove (Compiled by)
Call Number: E185.61 .R47 2003 vol.1 & 2
ISBN: 9781931082280
Publication Date: 2003-01-06
Classical Black Nationalism by Wilson J. Moses (Editor)
Call Number: E184.6 .C62 1996
ISBN: 0814755240
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
The Negro American; a documentary history by Fishel, Leslie H.
Call Number: Storage E185 .F5 1968
Civil rights and the American Negro; a documentary history by Blaustein, Albert P., 1921-1994.
Call Number: E449 .L68
Eyewitness; the Negro in American history by Katz, William Loren.
Call Number: Storage Oversize E185 .K28
In their own words; a history of the American Negro by Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009.
Call Number: E185 .M54
Black protest thought in the twentieth century
Call Number: E185.61 .M514
Milestones along the march; twelve historic Civil Rights documents, from World War II to Selma by Ianniello, Lynne,
Call Number: Basement Storage General E185.61 .I2
Racial thought in America; a documentary history, by Ruchames, Louis, 1917-1976.
Call Number: Basement Storage General E185 .R89
v. 1. From the Puritans to Abraham Lincoln
The Trouble They Seen by Dorothy Sterling (Editor)
Call Number: Basement Storage General E185.2 .T83
ISBN: 0385004761
Publication Date: 1976-03-01
Black on black; commentaries by Negro Americans by Adoff, Arnold.
Call Number: Basement Storage General E185.5 .A24
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1964-1975.
The voice of the Negro, 1919 by Kerlin, Robert Thomas, 1866-1950.
Call Number: Storage General E185.61 .K4 1968
I'm Somebody Important by Joanne Mitchell-George
Call Number: Storage General E185.93.G4 M57
ISBN: 0252002687
Publication Date: 1973-02-01
The making of Black revolutionaries; a personal account by Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Call Number: Storage General E185.97.F715 A3
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Gilbert, Olive.
Call Number: Storage General E185.97 .T882
ISBN: 9780585152912