Selected Reference Resources for African American History and Culture at Reese Library

Electronic Resources Accessible through GALILEO (go to www.aug.edu/library, “books, articles, media” then “GALILEO” for the A to Z and subject menus.

• For Georgia-specific resources, under the subject “Georgia” go to “Georgia History and Culture” and explore. Here are just some examples:
  • The African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library online collection consists of over one thousand funeral programs ranging from 1933 to 2008 (with the bulk of the collection beginning in the 1960s) from the Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection….Many of the people included in this collection were prominent in their communities, and many were involved locally in the struggle for civil rights.
    
    
  • Civil Rights Digital Library: The CRDL links to primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. The CRDL features a collection of more than 30 hours of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries.
    
    
  • Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia’s history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.
    
    
  • Georgia Stories supports the Georgia Social Studies curriculum for 8th grade students. And, it’s for anyone interested in Georgia history. The site is coordinated with the excellent series Georgia Stories produced by Georgia Public Broadcasting Education. Currently featured are two stories on the Albany Movement and a story on Economics and Civil Rights.
    
    
  • The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides access to authoritative information on people, places, events, history, and other topics about the state of Georgia. The site includes articles and images on every aspect of the state and includes links to related Internet sites.
    
    
  • Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.) consists of 86 glass plate negatives and positive prints of African-Americans in the Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia area. Robert E. Williams, an African-American photographer, operated a studio, R. Williams and Son, in Augusta, Georgia, from 1888 until around 1908.
    
    
• In addition to these specialized resources pertaining to Georgia, search the databases Annals of American History, Academic Search Complete, and Research Library at ProQuest for more general historical materials. Under the general ‘History’ subject heading in GALILEO, try America: History and Life, and Historic Documents. For artistic or musical topics, search the general databases under the Art or Music GALILEO subject headings such as Oxford Music Online, International Bibliography of Theater & Dance or Oxford Art Online.
  
   
• Featured materials held in the Reese Library Reference Room. This is by no means a comprehensive list—check with reference staff or search the GIL catalog for more materials.

• History
  • African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories / Alan Govenar. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000. REF E444 .G68 2000
  • African American history in the press, 1851-1899 : from the coming of the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow as reported and illustrated in selected newspapers of the time / the Schneider collection. Detroit: Gale, c1996. REF E185.2 .A25 1996
  • The African American national biography / editors in chief, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham. New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. REF E185.6 .H265 2009
  • Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 2nd edition. REF DT14 .A37435 2005
  • Black women in America / Darlene Clark Hine, editor in chief. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. REF E185.86 .B542 2005
  • Civil rights in America : 1500 to the present / Jay A. Sigler ; preface by Deval L. Patrick. Detroit : Gale, c1998. REF JC599.U5 S53 1998
  • Colonial America : an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic history / edited by James Ciment. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2006. (See chapters on African-Americans, Race and Ethnicity, Slave Trade.) REF E162 .C68 2006
  • Encyclopedia of African American history, 1619-1895 : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass / editor in chief, Paul Finkelman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. REF E185 .E545 2006
  • Harlem Renaissance lives from the African American national biography / general editors, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. REF E185.6 .H265 2009
  • On the trail of the buffalo soldier II: new and revised biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / compiled and edited by Irene Schubert, Frank N. Schubert. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004. REF U52 .O5 2004
• Culture
  • African American art and artists / Samella Lewis ; foreword by Floyd Coleman ; new introduction by Mary Jane Hewitt. 3rd edition. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003. REF N6538.N5 L38 2003
  • African American education : a reference handbook / Cynthia L. Jackson. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2001. REF LC2741.J33 2001
  • The African American experience : an historiographical and bibliographical guide / edited by Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001. REF E184.65 .A37 2001
  • American musical traditions / edited by Jeff Todd Titon, Bob Carlin. Volume 2: African-American Music. New York : Schirmer Reference, c2002. REF ML3551 .A53 2002
  • Black heritage sites: an African American odyssey and finder’s guide / Nancy C. Curtis. Chicago : American Library Association, 1996. REF E159 .C95 1996
  • Black literature criticism: excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years : supplement / Jeffrey W. Hunter, Jerry Moore, editors. Detroit : Gale, c1999. PS153.N5 B556 1999 Suppl.
  • Books and Beyond : the Greenwood encyclopedia of new American reading / edited by Kenneth Womack. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008. REF Z1003.2 .B64 2008
  • Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance / Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman, editors. New York : Routledge, 2004. REF NX512.3.A35 E53 2004
  • Harlem Renaissance lives from the African American national biography / general editors, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. REF E185.6 .H265 2009
  • Lift every voice: African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert J. Branham. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998. REF E185.18 .L54 1998
  • Multicultural and ethnic children’s literature in the United States / Donna L. Gilton. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007. REF Z1039.M56 G55 2007
  • The Negro Leagues book / edited by Dick Clark and Larry Lester. Cleveland, Ohio : Society for American Baseball Research, c1994. GV863.A1N434y 1994

For assistance locating items in the main (circulating) book collection, government documents, or Special Collections, consult a library staff member.



Compiled by: LouAnn Blocker, Electronic Resources Librarian