Africana Studies

Database to search and browse GW Libraries' Special Collections archival collections.

Archival collections and published materials that document the Black experience in the US and Washington, DC specifically.

Primary source materials related to specific neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. and materials related to urban renewal and urban planning.

This collection contains correspondence, clippings, article drafts, and subject files collected by Richard T. Gibson from 1948 to 2004. The material was created and collected as part of Gibson's work as a journalist, publisher's agent, and activist, and includes material relating to liberation movements in Africa, and Marxist-Leninist and Communist parties in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe.

This collection contains hand-written and typed drafts, edited drafts, galley proofs, articles, audiocassettes, interviews, and research notes related to the literary career of Marita Golden.

The collections consists of reports, correspondenece, legislative materials and publications pertaining to the work of the ILRF in monitoring U.S. trade agreements for maintenance of positive labor relations and workers' rights in the countries of U.S. trading partners.

This collection, composed of material from a number of different sources, offers researchers a unique look at the 20th and early 21st century American Left. It is comprised mainly of various printed material, including pamphlets, newsletters, journals and flyers dating from 1890-2017.

The Reading Room is the primary public access point for materials housed in the African and Middle Eastern Division. The extensive collections of the Africana Section of the division include primary source documents, facsimiles, and secondary sources. The Reading Room is open to the public.

This page provides an introduction to research on African-American topics in the federal records holdings of The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

The DC Public Library has two Special Collections divisions (Washingtoniana and Black Studies) that are very strong in African and African American historical resources. Both are located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.

A research center at Howard University, Washington, D.C., this facility is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world.

Search the collection online for objects held by this Smithsonian museum.

Collections of this Smithsonian museum embrace the diverse artistic expressions found throughout Africa, from ancient to contemporary times. Two of the museum's main research units are the Warren M. Robbins Library (mostly books and periodicals) and the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives.

The holdings of the Serial & Government Publications Division are very strong in US newspapers, with 9,000 titles covering the past three centuries. The complete suite of the Proquest Black Newspapers (historical), e.g., New York Amsterdam News, is included. The Division's Reading Room is open to the public.