Students, faculty and staff have access to loads of databases. Here are some hand-picked for Black History Month.

• Los Angeles Sentinel
• Chicago Defender
• Atlanta Daily World
• Baltimore Afro American  
• Pittsburgh Courier

• Ethnic NewsWatch
• African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress
• African American Newspapers
• Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League
• Integration of Alabama Schools and the U.S. Military, 1963
• Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2
• African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress
• Black Drama
• Diversity Studies Collection
• NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns–Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
• We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death, Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
• American History in Video

The Digital Library hosts more than 90 pages of oral histories from African Americans over the years.

Some of the topics covered include:

• African American Accountants
• African American Jazz Musicians
• African American Boxers
• African Americans & Civil Rights
• African Americans & the Armed Forces
• Black Panthers, Southern California Chapter