Black Studies Collections

Guide to African American reference

Guide to Afro-Caribbean reference

History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library

Internet Links

Networked databases

Online Library Catalog

Subject bibliographies



African Americana Library News

Soul Collection
Jul 28, 2008
The University of Alabama has acquired one of the world's largest African-American cookbook collections.

WSU collection will survive
Jul 22, 2008
Wayne State University's African American Literature Special Collection saves local history

Actor's memorabilia goes to KU
Jul 11, 2008
Kansas U's department of theater and film recently acquired a collection of the late Moses Gunn, an alumnus of the university

Vivian Harsh Research Collection
Jul 11, 2008
A Chicago Library is Getting Original Art by Tim Jackson

Rosa Parks memorabilia
Jul 10, 2008
Thousands and thousands of personal items of civil rights legend Rosa Parks are up for auction in New York City

The Black Studies Center

Apr 11, 2008


The ProQuest Black Studies Center is comprised of several component databases.

Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience

This database examines interdisciplinary topics on the African experience throughout the Americas by detailed timelines along with important research articles, images, and film clips. The essays are contributed by experts in their respective fields.

International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)

IIBP includes bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

The Marshall Index was compiled by Albert P. Marshall, an African-American librarian at the State Teachers College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and first published as a quarterly magazine, A Guide to Negro Periodical Literature, from 1941 to 1946. It was the first index to black serials ever compiled and covers 42 of the leading African-American periodicals between 1940 and 1946.

Black Literature Index

This is the electronic index to the Black Literature, 1827-1940 microfiche collection. It allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers.