"African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date ra

Online Resources: General Collection, NARA Resources, Photographs,Culture, Slavery, Abolition, Reconstruction, Segregation and Black Migration, and Civil Rights

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Includes Douglass, Frederick, Du Bois, W. E. B., du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point, Garvey, Marcus, Till, Emmett, Truth, Sojourner, Tubman, Harriet, Washington, Booker T., Wheatley, Phillis, Black History Month, Civil Rights Movement, Juneteenth Holiday, Museums, Religion, Slavery, Sports, Undergroun

African Americans, one of the largest of the many ethnic groups in the United States. African Americans are mainly of African ancestry, but many have non-Black ancestors as well.

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