Other resources
Explore more resources supporting the study of African American literature and history.
- Umbra: Search African American History
- Umbra Search African American History is a free online search tool that brings together hundreds of thousands of digitized primary source materials documenting African American cultural history from institutions and repositories across the country.
- The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
- The Minneapolis-based foundation seeks to enrich cultural understanding through programs that advance and celebrate African American literature and writers.
- Penumbra Theatre Company
- Founded in 1976 in St. Paul, Minnesota, Penumbra Theatre creates professional productions that are artistically excellent, thought-provoking, relevant, and illuminate the human condition through the prism of the African American experience.
- African-American Studies
- Subject resources related to African-American Studies compiled by the University of Minnesota Libraries.
- Special Collections at the Hennepin County Library
- This is a unique array of materials including books, maps, photographs, manuscripts, and other treasures. (from brochure)
- Amistad Research Center
- The Amistad Research Center is dedicated to preserving America's ethnic heritage by providing a home to the manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, books, periodicals, and works of art that contain the history of peoples, of nations, of beliefs and dreams, of a past worth sharing with the future. (from the Amistad Website)
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
- Howard University's Moorland-Springarn Research Center is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving, and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
- Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
- The largest African American history and literature collection in the Midwest, the Harsh Collection contains a wealth of precious documentation of the Black experience. The strength of the collection is concentrated in African American history in Illinois.
- MystNoir: African-American Mysteries
- MystNoir features mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels written by or featuring African-Americans.
- Clarence Major
- The official website for the author and artist.