Streaming Video
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DELCAT DiscoveryUse DELCAT Discovery to search for individual African American films and video that may be borrowed or streamed.
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Black Studies in VideoBrowse a collection of documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of Black culture in the United States.
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HistoryMakers Digital ArchiveVideotaped interviews of prominent African Americans.
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Academic Video Online (AVON)Streaming media including historic newsreels and documentaries. Also includes Black Studies on Video collection.
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MEF Digital CollectionStreaming films including documentaries that focus on race, class and gender.
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Swank Digital Campus Streaming VideoSelected classic and feature films, including African American titles such as 4 Little Girls.
Image Collections
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Umbra SearchPhotographs and other primary sources.
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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.
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ArtstorIncludes several notable art collections such as the UD Paul R. Jones Collection. See African American Studies in Artstor for information on individual collections.
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Beinecke Digital Collections | Yale University LibraryThe Advanced Search option permits searching by genre (e.g., cabinet photographs).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wikimedia CommonsA database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.