Black Excellence Library Guide: Resources

• Umoja Program

  The Umoja Learning Community was created to serve the growing African American/Black student population on campus and respond to the culturally diverse needs of our student body. As directed by the CCCCO Call to Action, this program aligns to an inclusive campus culture and addresses systemic barriers to African American/Black, and all students of color, within an educational framework.

• Black Studies: Library of Congress Resources

  Over 400 years of the African American experience is documented through primary source materials at the Library of Congress. This guide provides access to digitized collections, search strategies, and external websites related to the topic.
• Gallup Center on Black Voices

  Statistics: Explore Gallup's independent research that reveals the trends and insights on the experiences of Black Americans.
• History.com: Black History

  African Americans have played a central role in shaping U.S. history. From slavery and its abolition to the Great Migration, the civil rights movement and military, scientific, cultural and political achievements, explore key moments, milestones and figures in Black History.
• Pew Research Center: Black Americans

  Statistics: This resource explores the diverse views and experiences of Black people in America with in-depth surveys and other research. Their work focuses on three themes: Black identity, the economic and social mobility of Black people in America, and Black representation in American political and social life.
• Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture

  The only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by an Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans.
• Umbra Search African American History

  Digital Collections Search: From the University of Minnesota, this tool searches more than 500,000 digitized African American primary sources (letters, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, etc.) from over 1000 participating archives, libraries, and museums in the U.S.