Michigan State University Libraries

African American Studies

• African American Poetry 2 Database
  
  The Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry is a growing collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the 20th century. Many contemporary African American writers of America's 80s and 90s, who have gained recognition through national poetry awards or inclusion within leading print anthologies, are also represented.
• African American Poetry Database
  
  Covering a wide range of topics from slavery and abolition to love and death, this collection provides a unique portrait of early America through the reflections of African-American poets during the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains a variety of poetic styles and types including elegies, odes, ditties, hymns, and sonnets.
• Expanded Academic ASAP
  
  Expanded Academic ASAP� provides coverage of 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 1,400 journals are peer reviewed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included.
• ERL (WebSPIRS/SilverPlatter)
  
  Includes the following databases and files:
  
  AGRICOLA AGRIS Allied and Complementary Alternative Medicine (AMED) Atlantes (Sport Discus) BA (Biological Abstracts) Biological Abstracts BIOSIS CAB Abstracts Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Fulltext Reference Catalogue du Mus�e Olympique (Sport Discus) CINAHL Criminal Justice Abstracts ERIC Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) GeoRef Heracles (Sport Discus) International Political Science Abstracts MEDLINE MLA Directory of Periodicals MLA International Bibliography National Association of Social Workers Clinical Register Philosopher's Index PsycARTICLES via PsycINFO PsycINFO including PsycARTICLES RSP Funding for Graduate Students RSP Funding for Postdoctorates and Professionals RSP Funding for Undergraduates Serline Social Work Abstracts Plus SPORT Discus Tree-CD Zoological Record
• LexisNexis Academic
  
  The LEXIS service contains major archives of federal and state case law, continuously updated statutes of all 50 states, state and federal regulations and public records from major U.S. states. The NEXIS service is a leading news and business information service which contains more than 7,100 sources, of which 3,700 provide their entire publications online.
• Periodicals Index Online
  
  Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) contains more than 1 million citations to articles in more than 3,000 journals from 1770-1995. These journals represent popular and scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences. 1,000,000 citations are added annually. Although it is not yet complete, PCI Full Text is a growing repository of full-text articles enabling one to go directly from the bibliographic citation to the full text article.
• Web of Science
  
  Includes the Institute for Scientific Information Citation Indexes - Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. It indexes science, social sciences, and arts and humanities information from nearly 9,300 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
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  Additional newspaper resources (indexes, bibliographies and unionlists) can be found in MAGIC using the following subject headings: AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (online)
  
  This collection of African-American newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (parts 1-4)
  
  
• Black Studies on Disc
  
  An index to the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Index to Black Periodicals (1988-1999). Covers scholarly and popular aspects of African-American, African, and African Diasporan studies. Coverage of political, social, popular culture, historical and interdisciplinary topics.
• Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)
  
  CAMP is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and to make these materials in microform available to researchers. It acquires expensive microform sets and authorizes original filming of unique research materials in North America, Africa, and Europe.
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  
  Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
• Index to Black Periodicals
  
  Continued by G.K. Hall index to Black periodicals Continues Index to periodical articles by and about Blacks . Covers both popular and scholarly articles about Blacks.
• International Index to Black Periodicals
  
  IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward). Coverage is international and multidisciplinary in scope and issues pertaining to Black Studies.
• America History and Life
  
  Provides access to articles, book reviews, and dissertations in American and Canadian history.
• Trial Resources
  
  Remember to also check for resources of interest at this site.

• Race, slavery, and free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to southern county courts, 1775-1867 [microform] / edited by Loren Schweninger ; assistant editor, Marguerite Ross Howell.Bethesda, MD : LexisNexis
  
  Reproduces a collection of approx. 15,000 petitions assembled by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia and Maryland, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Note Accompanied by a printed guide entitled: A guide to the microfilm edition of Race, slavery, and free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to southern county courts, 1775-1867. Contents pt. A. Georgia (1796-1867), Florida (1821-1867), Alabama (1821-1867), Mississippi (1822-1867)
• A guide to the microfilm edition of Mary McLeod Bethune papers, the Bethune Foundation collection. pt. 1, writings, diaries, scrapbooks, biographical materials and files on the National Youth Adminis
  
  From the Series Black studies research sources Note -For use with the microfilm collection cataloged under the title: Mary McLeod Bethune papers, part 1: film no. 27889. For additional reels see: http://magic.msu.edu:80/record=b2978087a
• The Arthur A. Schomburg papers [microform].
  
  Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Note Accompanied by printed reel guide compiled by Nanette Dobrosky with title: A guide to the microfilm edition of the Arthur A. Schomburg papers -- E184.6 .S35 1991 Guide.
• The Bayard Rustin papers [microform] / introduction by August Meier.
  
  Accompanied by a film guide -- E185.97 .R87 1988 Guide Summary Reproduces the papers of Bayard Rustin made from the originals in the A. Philip Randolph Institute, New York N.Y., which were later transferred by the Institute to the Library of Congress. Note Accompanied by a printed reel guide, compiled by Nanette Dobrosky.
• The Black power movement. Part 1, Amiri Baraka from Black arts to Black radicalism [microform] / editorial adviser, Komozi Woodard ; project coordinator, Randolph H. Boehm.
  
  Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Daniel Lewis, entitled: A guide to the microfilm edition of the Black power movement / E185.615 .B533 2001 pt. 1. Reels 1-9. Contents pt. 1. Amiri Baraka from black arts to black radicalism
• Black workers in the era of the great migration, 1916-1925 / James R. Grossman, editor.; Randolph Boehm, associate editor; guide compiled by Martin Schipper.
  
  
• The Claude A. Barnett Papers. Part two [microform] : Associated Negro Press Organizational files, 1920-1966 [microform]
  
  Microfilmed from the holdings of the Chicago Historical Society.
• Papers of the American slave trade. [microform] Series A / editorial advisor, Jay Coughtry.
  
  Contents Ser. A. Selections from the Rhode Island Historical Society. Pt. 1. Brown Family collections (23 reels). pt. 2 Selected collections (30 reels). [this is just one of several parts for this title. Please consult MAGIC]
• The Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI file [microform] / edited by David J. Garrow.
  
  This file, designated number 100-106670 by the FBI, chronicles the career of Dr. King and the civil rights movement during the sixties. Included are the Bureau's responses to charges of harassment that emerged after King's death. Note: Reels numbered 1-16 (pt. 1), 1-9 (pt. 2). Contents pt. 1. FBI file (16 reels) -- pt. 2. The King-Levison file (9 reels). Local note MSU: For guide to microfilm edition see: Microcopy Library-E185.97.K51984
• The Paul Robeson collection [microform].
  
  Manuscript collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Note: Includes correspondence, speeches, newspaper and magazine excerpts by and about Robeson.
• Records of the Tuskegee Airmen [microform] / editor, Robert E. Lester.
  
  Reproduced from the records of the U.S. Army Air Corps in the custody of the National Archives of the United States, College Park, MD. Note Accompanied by film guide -- UG834.A37 R43 2005. Contents pt. 1. Records of the Army Air Forces (13 reels)

• Civil Rights
  
  Voice recordings of Ralph Abernathy, Marcus Garvey, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and others. http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/findingaids.cfm

• Services
  
  SCANNING AND OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION DMC staff provide free assistance with scanning to MSU library patrons. TEXT ENCODING AND AUDIO TRANSCRIPTIONS DMC staff have hands-on experience with using several varieties of markup languages to prepare text and audio transcriptions for dissemination on the web. In particular, we use two SGML/XML tagsets: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), designed for literary works and primary historical materials, and Trans-13, which was developed for transcriptions of audio files. Anyone with questions about copyright law is welcome to consult Michael Seadle at the Digital and Multimedia Center. These are purely informational consultations: we cannot provide legal advice. COPYRIGHT PERMISSION The DMC also assists in obtaining permissions from rights holders for MSU faculty who need to use materials in a course or other work-related project. Requests for permissions may be submitted using our Online Permissions Request Form.
• • SCANNING AND OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION
    
    DMC staff provide free assistance with scanning to MSU library patrons.
  • TEXT ENCODING AND AUDIO TRANSCRIPTIONS
    
    DMC staff have hands-on experience with using several varieties of markup languages to prepare text and audio transcriptions for dissemination on the web. In particular, we use two SGML/XML tagsets: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), designed for literary works and primary historical materials, and Trans-13, which was developed for transcriptions of audio files.
  • COPYRIGHT PERMISSION
    
    The DMC also assists in obtaining permissions from rights holders for MSU faculty who need to use materials in a course or other work-related project. Requests for permissions may be submitted using our Online Permissions Request Form.

• About the MSU Map Library
  
  The Map Library houses a collection of general and thematic maps and atlases for most areas of the world. The collection consists of approximately 200,000 sheet maps and 4,000 atlases, gazetteers and other reference aids including wall maps, globes, CDs and Internet-accessible resources. The collection is especially strong in Michigan topics, United States, Canada, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, though all areas of the world are collected at some level.
• ATLASES
  
  Atlases of the United States and other countries (Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, Cuba, etc.) may include general and/or thematic content. National atlases are a good source for information on the historical, cultural, demographic, political and social experiences of populations. In addition other thematic atlases may provide specific information for populations such as women and children. The following are an example of the more useful atlases to consult. Newer editions may not be available, but these older titles provide a snapshot of numbers, events, etc. for specific time periods.
• • The National Atlas of the United States of America.
    
    The older editions in paper copy are available in the Map Library. This U.S. Department of the Interior atlas is available via the Internet. According to their website: "d the single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information on the Web. The people and places of the United States are here."
  • Atlas of American Diversity
    
    Contents African Americans -- Asian Pacific Americans -- Hispanic Americans -- Native Americans -- Non-Hispanic Whites/European Americans. Includes statistical data.
  • We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity
    
    Information on race, ethnicity and populations in the 1980's.
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    Search MAGIC for other atlases on the African American experience using the following subject heading: African Americans -- History -- Maps.
  • Atlas of African-American History / James Ciment.
    
    Coverage includes: The African Heritage: An overview of the African continent, the civilizations that have inhabited it, and the cultural traditions that it has fostered Slavery in Early America: The mechanics of the slavery system; the Triangle Trade and the Middle Passage; the invention of the cotton gin; black pioneers and westward expansion The Divided Nation: The American Civil War; the Missouri Compromise; the Abolitionist Movement; and the Emancipation Proclamation Up from Slavery: Reconstruction; the Freedman's Bureau; the sharecropping system; African Americans and higher education; The "New Negro": The NAACP and the Urban League; the Jim Crow laws; the roles of African Americans in World War I and World War II; African Americans and the Great Depression; the New Deal The Civil Rights Years: The civil rights movement; Brown v. Board of Education; the Montgomery bus boycott; the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the freedom rides; Malcolm X and the rise of black nationalism The Struggle Continues: The demographics of black America; affirmative action; Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March; African-American political power; a pan-African world. [from publisher website: http://www.factsonfile.com/
  • The Routledge Atlas of African American History / Jonathan Earle.
    
    Vendor description: 16th century-20th century... The Routledge Atlas of African American History examines the geographical and historical context of the African American Experience. Focusing on issues and events that resonate to this day, topics include: slave revolts, black patriots, slave communities, the Civil War, African Americans in the armed services, the spread of Jim Crow, the Negro Baseball League, the Civil Rights Movement, the Voting Rights Act, the Harlem Renaissance, the expansion of the black middle class, and much more. http://www.routledge-ny.com
• Other Map Sites - Perry-Castañeda Library, U of T - Austin
  
  from the PCL website: "The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (PCL 1.306) is a general collection of more than 250,000 maps covering all areas of the world. Many of the maps are included in our online catalog, UTNetCAT. More than 5,000 map images from our collection are also available online. " Most CIA maps of countries and regions are copyright free, other maps on this site may not be. In addition links to maps of continents, countries, territories, regions, oceans and seas are also provided.