Free Research Guides  on the subject of African American Studies compiled by the Library of Congress

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History

14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History

15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History

African American Activists of the 20th Century: Selected Pictures

African American Communities in America’s Cities: Photographs by Camilo J. Vergara

African American Family Histories and Genealogies: A Resource Guide

African American Genealogical Research

African American History Online: A Resource Guide

African Americans in Business and Entrepreneurship: A Resource Guide

African Americans in Foreign Affairs: Selected Resources

African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era: A Resource Guide

African American Women in the Military and at War

American Folklife Center Collections: Alabama

American Folklife Center Collections: Arkansas

American Folklife Center Collections: Georgia

American Folklife Center Collections: Ohio

American Folklife Center Collections: Texas

American Minority Groups in the Vietnam War: A Resource Guide

Benjamin Banneker: A Resource Guide

Black Composers: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress

Black History Month: A Commemorative Observances Legal Research Guide

Bleeding Kansas: Topics in Chronicling America

Booker T. Washington: A Resource Guide

Booker T. Washington: Topics in Chronicling America

Brown v. Board of Education: A Resource Guide

Champion Cyclist “Major” Taylor : Topics in Chronicling America

Dr. Kelly Miller: A Resource Guide

Dred Scott v. Sandford: Primary Documents in American History

Early African-American Music: A Bibliography

Edward William Brooke III: A Resource Guide

Emancipation Proclamation: Primary Documents in American History

Emancipation Proclamation: Topics in Chronicling America

Finding Ancestors in the Anti-Slavery Movement and Underground Railroad

Frederick Douglass: A Resource Guide

Freedom in the Black Diaspora: A Resource Guide for Ayiti Reimagined

Great Migration: Finding Pictures

Gullah/Geechee Collections at the American Folklife Center

Gullah/Geechee History and Culture

Harlem Renaissance

Harpers Ferry: Topics in Chronicling America

Harriet Tubman: A Resource Guide

Harriet Tubman: Topics in Chronicling America

Harry Thacker Burleigh: A Guide to Resources

Ida B. Wells: Topics in Chronicling America

Jack Johnson vs. James Jeffries: Topics in Chronicling America

James Reese Europe: Topics in Chronicling America

Jamestown and Roanoke Colonies: A Resource Guide

Jazz Research at the Library of Congress

Kendrick Lamar: A Resource Guide

Mary Church Terrell: A Resource Guide

New York City Race Riot: Topics in Chronicling America

Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Resource Guide

Plessy v. Ferguson (Jim Crow Laws): Topics in Chronicling America

Plessy v. Ferguson: Primary Documents in American History

Popular Reactions to “Birth of a Nation”: Topics in Chronicling America

Prince Hall Freemasonry: A Resource Guide

Pullman Porters: Topics in Chronicling America

Racial Massacres and the Red Summer of 1919: A Resource Guide

Ragtime: Topics in Chronicling America

Ralph Bunche: Topics in Chronicling America

Ralph Ellison Rare Book Collection: A Resource Guide

Robert Smalls: A Resource Guide

Rosa Parks: A Resource Guide

Rosenwald Schools: Guide to Library of Congress Resources

Shirley Chisholm: A Resource Guide

Silent Protest Parade: Topics in Chronicling America

Sissieretta Jones: Topics in Chronicling America

Slavery and Abolition: Topics in Chronicling America

Slavery in America: A Resource Guide

Sojourner Truth: A Resource Guide

Tulsa Race Massacre: Topics in Chronicling America

U.S. Civil War: Selected Resources at the Library of Congress

W. E. B. Du Bois: A Resource Guide

Washington, D.C. in the Manuscript Reading Room

Zora Neale Hurston: A Resource Guide