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Every resource in the archive — aggregated and cited for further study.
84 resources
Best Picture adaptation of Solomon Northup's memoir.
Documentary tracing the 13th Amendment loophole to mass incarceration.
Citizenship and equal protection, 1868.
An anthem of the Civil Rights movement.
An anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The 1839 shipboard rebellion and its trial.
Pulitzer-winning novel of slavery and memory.
The movement's official organization and resources.
2,300+ first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of formerly enslaved people.
The 1954 decision ending school segregation.
America's racial order analyzed as a caste system.
Searchable digitized American newspaper pages, 1789–1963.
Contemporary newspaper coverage of the 1921 massacre.
The agency's internal review acknowledging ties to traffickers.
1,200+ recorded interviews and transcripts with civil-rights participants.
A primary archive built by veterans of the movement — documents, photos, and accounts.
The 1655 Virginia court record in the Johnson v. Parker case.
The book-length investigation into the CIA, the Contras, and crack.
Documentary clips on the 1973 Bronx party that launched hip-hop.
The federal review of the 1921 destruction of Greenwood.
The 1857 Supreme Court decision.
The full text of Lincoln's 1863 proclamation.
Nonprofit confronting mass incarceration, racial injustice, and the legacy of slavery.
The definitive documentary history of the Civil Rights movement.
The official home of the landmark 14-part civil-rights documentary.
Documents on the 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert and Eleanor Roosevelt's DAR resignation.
The defining protest anthem of hip-hop, 1989.
~7,400 items: correspondence, speeches, and writings of Frederick Douglass.
How a small free-Black community lived, worked, and owned land in 17th-century Virginia.
Federal records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
The first written protest against slavery in the English colonies.
The 54th Massachusetts, one of the first Black Union regiments.
Digitized 1930s redlining maps with the original appraisals.
Baldwin's unfinished manuscript becomes a meditation on race.
King's address at the 1963 March on Washington.
National Book Award-winning novel of Black identity in America.
The original 1865 order announcing emancipation in Texas.
Digitized collections documenting 400+ years of the African American experience.
Documents 4,000+ racial-terror lynchings of Black Americans between 1877 and 1950.
Denzel Washington as the revolutionary leader.
The 1939 concert and the DAR's refusal of Constitution Hall.
Federal records and research guides spanning slavery to the present.
Records and photographs of the 1963 March on Washington.
Scholarly overview of the destruction of Greenwood.
The museum's account of 2020 and the movement that followed.
The museum's narrative of slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment.
The 1918–mid-1930s flowering of Black art, literature, and music.
How the federal government frames the 1619 Point Comfort arrival.
The national monument and history of Emmett Till's murder and its legacy.
Digitized photographs and documents of the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance.
Official video of the January 21, 2013 public inauguration ceremony.
Primary documents on the 1896 decision that constitutionalized "separate but equal."
~7,500 manuscript items and 2,500 photographs documenting Parks's life and the movement.
The first documented Africans — and first slave rebellion — in what is now the US.
The world's leading research library on the African diaspora; 10M+ items.
The 1965 voting-rights marches dramatized.
Pulitzer-winning history of convict leasing and re-enslavement after the Civil War.
Life inside the antebellum slave market.
A National Book Award history of racist ideas in America.
A protest against lynching, 1939.
The amendment abolishing slavery, ratified December 6, 1865.
Reframing US history around the consequences of slavery.
A sweeping documentary survey of 500 years of African American history.
One of the most influential memoirs of the 20th century.
Malcolm X's 1964 case for Black self-determination.
A landmark essay connecting slavery, redlining, and the wealth gap.
The newspaper that helped spur the Great Migration.
Baldwin's searing essays on race in America.
Slavery and the making of American capitalism.
A landmark of the Harlem Renaissance.
A teaching museum of racist artifacts documenting the Jim Crow era and its imagery.
Mass incarceration as a system of racial control.
Douglass's influential abolitionist newspaper.
One of the most influential Black newspapers of the 20th century.
Foundational essays on race and "double consciousness."
The definitive narrative history of the Great Migration.
Washington's influential and contested autobiography.
Service records of ~179,000 men of the United States Colored Troops.
Scholarship on the 1619 Point Comfort landing and its contested history.
Research on the White Lion's arrival at Point Comfort and the first recorded Africans.
Audio recordings (1932–1975) of formerly enslaved people across nine states.
A landmark of socially conscious soul.
Dramatization of the Central Park Five case.
The first documented child of African descent born in the English colonies.