African and African Diaspora Studies
Digital Collections
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Africa CommonsA project to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials. Africa Commons helps preserve African content and enable African scholars easily to find and access expressions of their heritage in Western collections.
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African Online Digital LibraryODL is an open access digital library of African cultural heritage materials created by Michigan State University in collaboration with museums, archives, scholars, and communities around the world. AODL has materials related to Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, and South Africa.
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Umbra SearchUmbra Search African American History brings together more than 400,000 digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.
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NMAAHC Open AccessThe digital collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Explore and reuse thousands of digital items from the NMAAHC's collections.
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African Activist ArchiveThe African Activist Archive is preserving and making available online the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.
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World Digital Library
Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.
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Say it Plain, Say it Loud: A Century of Great African American SpeechesPublic 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.
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Archives Nationales d' HaïtiThe Archives Nationales d'Haïti houses civil and state records as well of those of the Office of the President and most government ministries.
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Digital Library of the CaribbeandLOC is a cooperative of Partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC comprises collections that speak to the similarities and differences in histories, cultures, languages and governmental systems.
UWM Special Collections | Primary sources in the Library
Special Collections at the UWM Libraries is the premier public collection of rare books and special printed materials in southeastern Wisconsin. For more information about the materials below or other sources email libspecial@uwm.edu or call (414) 229-4345.
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Lectures on liberation by Angela Davis.Attractive pamphlet reproducing Davis's initial lectures for "Recurring Philosophical Themes in Black Literature," which she delivered during her first course at UCLA (Fall, 1969).
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Black Panther by Black Panther Party, Ministry of InformationNewsletter of the San Francisco Black Panther Party.
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Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon NorthupTwelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana.
Special Collections also has artist's books by Black artists like Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Evelyn Terry, and Clarissa Sligh, and more whose work speaks to issues of Blackness and the diaspora
UWM Archives | Primary sources in the Library
UWM Archives and Area Research Center
Contact: ASKARCH@UWM.EDU
3rd Floor West, Please Make an Appointment
Help with:
- Primary Research Support and Primary Source Literacy instruction
- Primary sources related to the social, political, and cultural organizations in the city of Milwaukee
- History reference materials and vital statistics for Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington, and Waukesha Counties
- University records and local manuscript collections
- WTMJ Footage
- Inter-archives loan requests
Digital Collections:
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UWM Archives Digital Collections
Search digital collections from the UWM Archives, including collections focusing on Milwaukee and UWM.
American Geographical Society Library | Primary sources in the Library
American Geographical Society Library
Contact: AGSL@UWM.EDU
3rd Floor East, Please Make an Appointment
Help With:
- Maps, atlases, and globes
- GIS Data and GIS Data Literacy Instruction
- Classical geography, arctic exploration and research, Western imperialism
- The American Geographical Society Archives
- Census data
- Primary Source Literacy Instruction
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American Geographical Society Library Digital Collections
Photographs, maps, diaries, and documents from the American Geographical Society Library.
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AGSL GeoDiscovery
AGSL GeoDiscovery is an online geoportal that provides discovery and access to geospatial data for American Geographical Society Library patrons including open and restricted data in AGSL collections as well as data harvested from the OpenGeoMetadata project.