HIST 340: Voices for Justice - Seven African American Lives (HC)

Updated, multi-volume history with extensive illustrations. See these volumes: v. 3. pt. 3. From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : the eighteenth century -- v. 4. pt. 1. From the American Revolution to World War I : slaves and liberators -- v. 4. pt. 2. From the American Revolution to World War I : Black models and White myths -- v. 5. pt. 1. The twentieth century : the impact of Africa -- v. 5. pt. 2. The Twentieth Century: the Rise of Black Artists.
Books include many illustrations of artworks as well as interpretive essays. See, for example, Vol. 5, The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists Childs, Adrienne L. “Activism and the Shaping of Black Identities (1964–1988),” pages 131-178. The full set of volumes was published in 2010-2014.

Essays of interest cover the Harlem Renaissance, African American photography and the legacy of representing Black womanhood.

These photographs were selected by W. E. B. Du Bois. He arranged 363 images into themed albums for people at the fair.

New York Public Library has digitized many of its notable art and photography collections to aid researchers.

See sources for images including libraries, museums and organizations.

Phtographs are drawn from collections of family photographs, the records of a professional woman's school, work by two photographers who documented early African-American institutions of higher learning, and the personal collections of various individuals.

Photographs of artists, entertainers, activists, educators, and public intellectuals taken by Carl Van Vechten from 1939 tthrough 1964.

A digital collection of anti-lynching drawings published in African American periodicals during the 1880s and 1890s. The collection makes available hard-to-find images that African American editors and artists used to shape political consciousness before 1900.

Search for digitized images from many libraries, archives, and museums relating to Black history.
Example: image mary ellen pleasant

Seventeen photographs from the Schomburg Library Collection, New York Public Library,