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African American or Black history
Civil rights movement
Black power
Racial justice
Black or African American culture
Black women in history
Atlantic slave trade
African diaspora
Slavery
Jim Crow
Great Migration
Racial inequality

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African American Experience This link opens in a new window
African American Experience is the widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled. This database is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture.
Diversity Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Access a collection of journals that explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new window
U.S. History in Context provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals, and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. The database features some PDF content going back as far as 1867, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
This database contains more than 400,000 biographies on nearly 275,000 people gathered from over 90 reference sources as well as 250 magazines. You can search for one or more of these fields: birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

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