Umbra Search African American History

Umbra Search brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country to make African American history more broadly accessible.

Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and pays homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement.