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Full length journal, magazine and newspaper articles can be found in our online article collections.

If a book or article cannot be found in PVAMU's resources, it can usually be borrowed from another library. Fill out the Interlibrary Loan form, and please note that it may take several weeks to receive the item.

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Material on African Americans can be found in numerous areas in the library. Search the PVAMU Libraries Online Catalog for names and other key terms like Harlem Renaissance. You'll find useful statistics and background information in such books in the Reference area at:

• African American frontiers : Slave Narratives and Oral Histories Ref E444 .G68 2000
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History Ref E185 .E54 1996
• African-American writers : a Dictionary Ref PS 153 N5 A3444
• African American Firsts in Science & Technology Ref Q141 .W43 1999
• Almanac of African American heritage Ref E185.A448 2001
• Contemporary Black Biography Ref E185.96 .C66

Useful Websites

• African-American Odyssey - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
• Our SharedHistory - http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/bhm-intro.htm
• Digital Schomburg Imagesof 19th Century African Americans - http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
• African American Genealogy - http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/index.html
• Africans in America - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
• The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier - http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html
• Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940–1965 - http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/topics/afam/AFAM-USA.htm
• American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass - http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/
• Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project - http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

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