Visualizing Emancipation - A digital-humanities project from the University of Richmond. Edward L. Ayers, historian and president of the University of Richmond, calls the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War “the least-understood social transformation in American history.” A new interactive map he helped build shows that emancipation didn’t occur in one moment, he says, but was “an unfolding,” happening from the very first years of the war to the very last....It happened because of African-Americans, not merely for them, or to them.
James Baldwin Bests William F. Buckley in 1965 Debate at Cambridge University - In 1965, James Baldwin accepted an invitation by Cambridge University to debate the “father of American conservatism” William F. Buckley on the subject, “The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro.”
Robert Penn Warren Archive: Who Speaks for the Negro? - Digital archive includes interviews with James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
Africana & Black History - Historical documents, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present.