Black Archives are essential to the preservaton of the Black experience. Contrary to popular opinion, thousands of archives exist in the Americas that chronicles different aspects of the Black past. Below see links to some the most important archival units in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Enjoy the informational blog
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Black Power Archives (historianspeaks.org)
Black Studies and Academe: A Research Program, 1967 to 2024 (historianspeaks.org)
General (US)
National Museum of African American History and Culture https://www.searchablemuseum.com/
Black Liberation https://www.marxists.org/history/black-liberation/index.htm
Freedom Archives https://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=19
Vivian Harsh Collection - Chicago Public Library https://www.chipublib.org/archival_subject/african-american/
Atlanta University https://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/resources
Howard University https://dh.howard.edu/find_aid/
University of Michigan https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&group=true&f%5Brepository_sim%5D%5B%5D=University+of+Michigan+Special+Collections+Research+Center&search_field=all_fields&scope=repository&q=african+americans
Yale (search for African American) https://archives.yale.edu/subjects?q[]=%2A&op[]=OR&field[]=title&from_year[]=&to_year[]=&limit=subject&sort=title_sort%20asc&page=12
Vanderbilt University https://collections.library.vanderbilt.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=african+american&limit=&field%5B%5D=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&commit=Search
Charles L Blockson Afro-American Collection: Finding Aids https://guides.temple.edu/c.php?g=322893&p=2174535
African American Education 1740 - 1974 https://guides.library.harvard.edu/aaeducation/archival
New York Public Library https://archives.nypl.org/
Library of Congress (search for African Americans) https://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchBrws.xq?search_term=African%20American%20authors.&display_key=African%20American%20authors.&marc_enc=650$a&browse_type=subj
UK
General Report https://raceingeography.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/race-group-report-july-2019-proofread.pdf
George Padmore Institute https://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/
Black Cultural Archives https://blackculturalarchives.org/
Dig Where You Stand https://www.dwys.co.uk/
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