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Information Sources in Black History & Culture
I. Books and Audiovisuals
II Periodical Resources
A. Electronic Indexes and Full-Text Collections
B. Print Indexes, Abstracts and Bibliographies
III. Reference Materials
A. Encyclopedias
B. Other Reference Sources
IV. Microforms
V. Special Collections
VI. Government Publications
VII. Web Resources
VIII. Course Information
IX. Help from the Library
Use tomCat (the U of M Library catalog).
For subject searches, use Library of Congress Subject Headings such as afro-americans or blacks--racial identity or civil rights movements--united states. (LC Subject Headings volumes are available in Reference.)
NOTE: Afro-Americans is the subject heading for blacks living in the the United States. Blacks is the subject heading for blacks living anywhere in the world.
To find books about individuals, search by subject;e.g., king martin luther.
Also try searching by keywords such as afro-americans civil rights memphis or afro-american women (leave out words like in, of, on, and the; AND is assumed between words).
NOTE: Use a question mark to pick up variant endings. For example afro-american? will retrieve afro-american and afro-americans.
Find video tapes by using videorecording as a keyword; e.g., underground railroad videorecording
Copy the call number from the catalog record to find the book. (See How to Find Books.)
netLibrary [UM Only] A collection of over 55,000 electronic books in various disciplines. Some of these items may be available in print as well as electronically.
Use an electronic database.
These are recommended. Other periodical databases are listed on Periodical Databases by Adademic Area. For help finding articles try How to Find Articles in Periodicals and refer to How to find Print Periodicals for help locating the articles you've found. If the periodical is available electronically, you will find a link to it from the electronic journals list.
American Slavery : A Composite Autobiography [UM Only]
Presents the work of the Work Projects Administration from 1936-1938. The WPA employed writers and journalists through the Federal Writers' Project to interview ex-slaves in the United States. Searching is available on eight different criteria.
Fact Search (1984 - ) [UM Only]
A guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and documents such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, Congressional hearings, Daily Press Briefings of the White House, State Department and Department of Defense, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates. Includes abstracts.
Humanities Full Text [UM Only]
Also part of Wilson Omnifile Mega. Indexes periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Coverage: citations & abstracts, 1984- ; full text, 1995-
In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives [Open Access]
Provides citations to oral histories, letters, diaries, autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
JSTOR (full text archive) [UM Only]
Indexes and stores back issues of seven journals related to African American studies.
MLA International Bibliography (periodicals and books chapters, 1963 - ) [UM Only]
Indexes 4,000 periodicals covering literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
Project Muse (Full-text) [UM Only]
Provides electronic full text of more than 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Social Sciences Full Text [UM Only]
Indexes periodicals in addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, communications & mass media, community health & medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning & public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies. Coverage: citations & abstracts, 1983- ; full text, 1995-
Sociological Abstracts [UM Only]
Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexing began 1963; abstracting began 1974.
Other Databases: These databases provide coverage on a wide range of subjects and may be useful in your research.
Electronic Journals Service (EJS) [UM Only]
Electronic journals service available through a common interface for online journal subscriptions. Search, browse, and identify journals and articles available online in either full-text or table-of-content format. Hyperlinks are provided to more than 1,300 electronic journals worldwide.
Expanded Academic Index (1980-) [UM Only]
Indexes about 1,900 magazines, journals, and the NY Times newspaper. Most have abstracts, and about 900 are full text.
IngentaConnect [Open Access]
Formerly Uncover. Browse the publication list or search tables of contents to over 17,000 periodicals; period of coverage varies. Provides document delivery service.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe [UM Only]
Provides full text of many magazines and newspapers, including The Commercial Appeal since 1990.
Oxford Reference Online [UM Only]
The Oxford Reference Online Premium collection is an online collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias in many fields including: art & architecture, bilingual dictionaries, biological science, classics, computing, earth & environmental sciences, economics & business, English dictionaries and thesauruses, English language reference, food & drink, history, law, literature, maps & illustrations, military history, mythology & folklore, names & places, performing arts, physical sciences & mathematics, politics & social sciences, quotations, religion & philosophy, and science.
PowerSearch [UM Only]
Searches the 12 InfoTrac databases simultaneously.
Web of Knowledge
Search platform for Current Contents Connect®;ISI Essential Science Indicators; ISI Proceedings; Science and Technology; Social Sciences and Humanities; Journal Citation Reports® on the Web (Science Edition and Social Sciences Edition; Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Use the CrossSearch option to search these resources simultaneously with open access resources such as the AIAA Meeting Papers American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Agricola; arXiv Computer Science; arXiv Mathematics; All arXiv ePrint Archives; arXiv Nonlinear Sciences; arXiv Physics; arXiv Quantitative Biology; Civil Engineering Database; The Educator's Reference Desk ERIC Database; NTIS Library Documents published since 1990; NASA Astrophysics Data System; Popline Reproductive Health Literature; and PubMed. For instructions on aspects of using WoK, such as searching, setting up alerts, using the search history, see ISI Web of Knowledge Recorded Training.
Wilson Omnifile Mega Full Text [UM Only]
Provides access to eleven databases: Education , General Science , Humanities , Readers' Guide , Social Sciences, Wilson Business , Art, Applied Science & Technology, Index to Legal Periodicals, Library Literature & Information Science, Biological & Agricultural. Search databases individually, in selected groups, or all at once.
WorldCat [UM Only]
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, and websites. Contains manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
NOTE: Many of these also list books and book chapters as well as periodicals.
Afro-American History: A Bibliography [Ref Z1361 N39 S56]
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1976-) [Reference Index Tables]
A Bibliography of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection in the Mississippi Valley Collection, plus ten-year supplement volume (1983-1993) [Ref F444.M5.B52x; also in Special Collections]
Black Rhetoric: A Guide to Afro-American Communication [Ref Z1361.N39G55]
Biography Index (1946-) [Reference Index Tables]
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (3 sets of cumulative vols.) [Ref Index Tables]
Humanities Index (1974-) [Reference Index Tables]
The Negro in America: A Bibliography [Ref Z1361.N39M5]
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (1890-) [Reference Index Tables]
Social Sciences Citation Index [Reference Index Tables]
Social Sciences Index (1965- 96) [Reference Index Tables]
Sociological Abstracts (1953 -) [Reference Abstract Shelves]
A Working Bibliography on the Negro in the United States [Ref Z1361.N39P62]
The African-American Encyclopedia (10 vols) [Ref E185.A253 2001]
African Folklore: An Encyclopedia [Ref GR350 .A33 2004]
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience [DT14 .A37435]
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights [Ref E185.61.E54 1992]
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History (5 vols.) [Ref E185.E54 1996]
Encyclopedia of African-American Religions [Ref BR563.N4 E53 1993]
Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaelogy, History, Languages, Cultures and Environments [Ref DT2.E53 1997]
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture [Ref F209.E53 1989]
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America [UM Only]
Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Contains essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns. Also covers ethnoreligious groups.
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights (2 vols.)[Ref E185.61 .E54 2003]
The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (2 vols.) [Ref HT861.H57 1997]
Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations [Ref E185.5.O74 2001]
The African American Almanac [Ref E185.N385 9th ed. 2003]
The African-American Atlas [Ref E185.A79 1998]
The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country [Ref E185.96.G38 2000]
African American Firsts in Science & Technology [Ref Q141.W43 1999]
African American Lives [Ref E185.96 A446 2004]
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture [Ref Z1361.N39 L47 1993]
African Americans in Sports (2 vols.)[Ref GV583.A567 2004]
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [UM Only]
Atlas of African-American History [Ref E185.C55 2001]
The Black New Yorkers: The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology [Ref F128.9.N4 D63 2000]
Black Olympian Medalists [Ref GV697.A1 P284 1991]
The Chronological History of the Negro in America [Ref E185.B46]
Contemporary Black Biography (16 vols.) [Ref 185.96.C66] - A continuing series that provides biographical profiles with photos of "important and influential persons of African heritage who form the international black community." The last volume in the series contains cumulative indexes by nationality, occupation, subject and name.
Frame By Frame II: A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994 [Ref PN1995.9.N4 K58 1997]
Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction [Ref E185.96 F64 1996]
General History of Africa (8 vols.) [Ref DT20.G45] - This is the series title. Each of the eight volumes has a separate title and publication date.
A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete (3 vols.) [Ref GV583.A74 1993]
Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans [Ref E185.A8 1991]
Historical Statistics of Black America (2 vols.) [Ref E185.H543 1995]
History of Black Business in America [Ref HD2344.5.U6 W35 1998]
The Image of the Black in Western Art (4 vols.) [Ref N8232.I42x 1976]
The Negro in American History (3 vols) [Ref E185.N4 1972]
Reference Library of Black America (5 vols.) [Ref E185.P56]
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation (8 vols.) [Ref E446.S617 1999] - A collection of "primary texts which relate to the issues raised by the institution of transatlantic slavery and its relationship with the British Romantic movement." Index in Vol. 8.
W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia [Ref E185.97.D73 W164 2001]
Who's Who Among African-Americans [Ref 185.96.W52]
Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations [Ref PN6081.3.W67 1995]
To discover the wealth of historical materials preserved in microformat, browse the card catalog in the Microforms Area (2nd floor) under headings such as Afro-Americans, Afro-Americans--Civil Rights, Afro-Americans--History, etc. Some materials are issued as part of larger collections. Selected sources:
Black Culture Collection [Microfilm E185.5.B45x] - Includes Papers of the NAACP and other works. Print guide gives overview and reel numbers.
Black Studies Research Sources - Individual titles are listed under this series name in the catalog. Print guides available for each.
Booker T. Washington Papers [Microfim. E185.97.W285x] - Over 34,000 items; family, personal and correspondence, 1864-1960
History of the Department of Justice [Microfilm KF5107.H57x] - Narrative and documentary history from Nov. 1963-Jan. 1969, a most important period for Civil Rights action. Guide available.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: FBI File [Microfilm E185.97.K5 M296x 1984] - Collection of information gathered on Dr. King by the FBI during the '60's, focusing on his role as a civil rights activist. Guide Available. (The FBI Assassination File is also available)
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations [Microfilm F213.R42x 1985] Guide available.
State Slavery Statutes [Microfiche KF4545.S5 A127] Guide available.
The Special Collections Department (also known as the Mississippi Valley Collection) on the fourth floor of
McWherter Library, houses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, oral history interviews and other materials
that document regional history and culture, including African-American History and the American Civil Rights
Struggle. Notable collections include the Memphis Multi-Media Archival Collection: The 1968 Sanitation
Workers' Strike and the Robert R. Church Family Papers. Some of these materials can be identified through the library catalog, but many of them cannot. Some images of the Civil Rights Struggle, from the archived Commercial Appeal and Memphis Press-Scimitar photographs, can be viewed on their web page. Departmental staff will assist you in locating and using their materials, which are non-circulating.
The Government Publications Department, on the first floor of McWherter Library, is a designated depository library for the United States Government and for Tennessee Government. Historical and current information produced by the executive, legislative and judical branches of the federal government and all their agencies are available here. Staff in the department will assist you in finding and using government publications. You can also get information through their web page at http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam.html .
Most public terminals in the McWherter Library provide access to Netscape. You may want to explore web sites using various search engines or, if you have them, specific URLs. [See Robert Harris's Internet Search Tips and Strategies ] The web sites listed below are examples of the various types of information available via Internet.
The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
A Proud Heritage: Black History Sites from Coast to Coast
Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
Black History Month
Black Quest Power Resource Links
NAACP
African American Sites in the Digital Collections From the Library of Congress
The Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University Contains links to major speeches and audiotapes.
National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis)
African-American Studies Newspaper Research - Strategies & Sources (Harvard Library)
Guide to research in McWherter Library
Still can't find what you're looking for?
Try Ask A Librarian
For additional assistance, you may contact the liaison librarian for Black History and Culture:
Ed Frank
Phone: 901.678.8242
Email: efrank@memphis.edu
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