Streaming Video
- DELCAT Discovery This link opens in a new windowUse DELCAT Discovery to search for individual African American films and video that may be borrowed or streamed.
- HistoryMakers Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowVideotaped interviews of prominent African Americans.
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
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Streaming media including historic newsreels and documentaries. Also includes Black Studies on Video collection. - Media Education Foundation Digital Collection This link opens in a new windowStreaming films including documentaries that focus on race, class and gender.
- Swank Digital Campus Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowSelected classic and feature films, including African American titles such as 4 Little Girls.
Image Collections
- Umbra Search - African American History This link opens in a new windowPhotographs and other primary sources.
- African American Community and Culture | Gallery | Smithsonian InstitutionSearch the holdings of the Smithsonian, including items held in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- Artstor Digital Library (MOVED TO JSTOR 8/1/2024) This link opens in a new windowIncludes several notable art collections such as the UD Paul R. Jones Collection. See African American Studies in Artstor for information on individual collections.
- Beinecke Digital Collections | Yale University LibraryThe Advanced Search option permits searching by genre (e.g., cabinet photographs).
- DocSouth: Image Subject List for North American Slave NarrativesBrowse a subject listing of digital images included in the North American Slave Narratives. The collection is also searchable.
- DocSouth: Image Subject List for The Church in the Southern Black CommunityBrowse by subject digital images from The Church in the Southern Black Community project. A search option is also available.
- Getty Images Black History & Culture Collection (PREVIEW ONLY)A VIEW-ONLY preview of the Black History & Culture Collection, a not‑for‑profit initiative created to provide access to historical and cultural images of the African/Black Diaspora in the US and UK, gathered from content owned by Getty Images.
- Prints & Photographs Online Catalog | Library of CongressAn extensive collection of digital images of Library of Congress collections including photos taken by Gordon Parks, the Carl Van Vechten Collection including Harlem Renaissance celebrities, images from the personal papers of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, and more.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division | NYPL Digital Collections | New York Public LibraryBrowse individual collections or search across the site.
- Wikimedia CommonsA database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.