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Resources for African American & Black Diaspora Literature from Lovejoy Library.

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African American Women Writers - New York Public Library
Docsouth (University of North Carolina)
Schomburg Center: African American Migration Experience
Gilder Lehrman Center This website offers a number of digital artifacts and visual resources for your reference. If you click on the "Scholars" tab and then scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll see a link for "Online Resources." Once you click there, you'll have a wide variety of subjects that you can click on and search through with plenty of images and artifacts that pertain to the topics we've been discussing.
Africans in America This site includes a resource bank that includes archival documents, interviews with historians and literary scholars, as well as excerpts from literary texts.
Audio - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Oral history - audio files

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