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The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

The Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory collection has recently expanded yet again with this new exhibit. This new exhibit contains selected texts and images from the Ohio State Historical Society. These include manuscripts, pamphlets, photos, newspapers, and other periodicals. Users can browse the collection by subject or source material or search by keyword. The site also contains a...

https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll98
The Avalon Project: African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School, (last mentioned in the April 4, 1997 Scout Report) has recently added an African American biography, autobiography, and history section. The section contains complete copies of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech, My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, dictated by Sojourner Truth and edited by Olive...

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/african_americans....
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Located at Yale University, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is "dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction." Created by a major gift from Richard Gilder, the Center's Web site provides detailed information about the fellowships, conferences, publications, and...

https://glc.yale.edu/
The Negro Travelers' Green Book, Spring 1956

The history of travel writing is full of interesting stories and journeys, and some of them are born out of various hardships. In the 1930s, Victor H. Green began to publish the Negro Travelers' Green Book in order to provide African American motorists and tourists with the information necessary "to board, dine, and sightsee comfortably and safely during the era of segregation." The University of...

https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/the-negro-travele...
The Shifting Pattern of Black Migration From and Into the Nonmetropolitan South, 1965-95

Recently published by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the US Department of Agriculture, this report focuses on the migration of African Americans between the nonmetropolitan South and the rest of the Nation, along with education and poverty trends from 1965-1970 through 1990-1995. According to the report, since 1970, there has been a reversal of the lasting trend of Black migration loss...

https://wayback.archive-it.org/5923/20120225102258/http://er...
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