February honors Black History Month. This guide was created to highlight a number of African American resources that are available through the Howard College Libraries, in addition to a variety of web resources.
Features primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.
Black Freedom Struggle provides a selection of primary source documents that may be used by a wide range of students. The database contains over 3,000 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:
Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)
Credo Reference contains full-text dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference books that can be searched using key words. Use this database to find definitions, overview articles on a topic, biographical information or even pronunciation of medical terms!
