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New York Public Library

Full text of over 1400 plays by 233 African American playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Short stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. Black Short Fiction (BLFI) contains approximately 760 stories and folktales by 19 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction.

Over 400 sources by African American authors, including monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.

Fiction, poetry, and essays by authors from Africa and the African diaspora.

Transcriptions of 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves, from the Library of Congress.

Includes published memoirs, letters and diaries, drawn from more than 500 sources, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials, searchable by words and phrases, as well as by places, battles, dates, form of material, etc. Database also includes 1000-item bibliography and 1000 biographies.

A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. The 1,165 books and manuscripts come primarily from its Southern holdings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This corpus represents a collaboration between the University of Chicago and The Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) at the University of Kansas (https://hbw.ku.edu/). Since the project’s founding in 1983, HBW’s mission has been to identify texts that have been lost to history and advocate for their return, to promote the awareness of the works by African American authors, and to create opportunities for learning about and engaging them. One outcome of these efforts has been the collection of over 1000 well-known and lesser-known novels by African American writers, which are currently in the process of being digitized. This corpus represents about half of this collection (450 novels) and it will continue to be updated as the collection is digitized. A full list of the novels that will eventually be included in the corpus can be found here (https://hbw.ku.edu/novel-collections).
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Contains diaries and letters, dating from colonial times to 1950 drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, and 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials.

Contains works by more than 100 poets searchable by a number of fields, including keyword, first line or title keyword, and poet name. Biographical profiles accompany each poet's work.