African-American Databases
African-American History Month has started and students will soon be searching for information to write papers, do presentations, and complete other school assignments. In addition to the many print sources the library has available to meet this need, we also have a group of African-American databases students can use to find information. Moreover, these databases may be accessed outside the library with your library card. The database descriptions come from the Birmingham Public Library website.
African-American History Online covers topics such as
affirmative action, Africa, black nationalism, civil rights, emancipation, free
blacks, the Harlem Renaissance, migrations, racial violence and hate crimes,
religion, slave living conditions, slave liberation strategies, social work and
philanthropy, sports, and visual arts.
Informative biographical profiles of the important and
influential persons of African American and/or black heritage. Covers persons
of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, including architecture,
art, business, dance, education, fashion, film, industry, journalism, law,
literature, medicine, music, politics and government, publishing, religion,
science and technology, social issues, sports, television, theater, and others.
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides
students, teachers, and scholars with an authoritative and comprehensive source
on the African American experience. The site is comprised of five major
encyclopedias and content from eighteen additional reference sources from
Oxford University Press, including more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in
the field. The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of
carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the
most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the
lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and
culture.
The Birmingham Black Barons, one of the most successful
baseball teams in the Negro Leagues, played from the 1920s until the 1950s. The
team played their home games at Rickwood Field. This database is a keyword index
to articles that appeared in local newspapers including the Birmingham News and
the Birmingham World. The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham
Public Library is compiling this database.
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