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African American/Black Traditions

WPA and the Slave Narrative Collection

The Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves, today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA, Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage.

Lynching in America

The Equal Justice Initiative has created an interactive experience inspired by the original Lynching in America report. This project tells the story of racial terror in America and explores how its legacy continues to shape our nation today. The Lynching in America project includes audio stories from generations affected by lynching, an interactive map on the impact of lynching, and more.

Civil Rights Movement Photographs

These original photographs document the involvement of Queens College students and other Northerners in the Civil Rights Movement of the early to mid-1960s, including Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Virginia Student Help Project, the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project, and the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR).

BlackPast

BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.