African-American » Libraries, Archives & Museums

A Separate Flame: Western Branch: The First African-American Public Library

Louisville, Kentucky.

A. Philip Randolph/Pullman Porter Museum Gallery

Chicago, Illinois museum celebrating this leader in the African American labor movement and the African American Railroad Attendant.

African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County

African American Monuments, Museums and Memorials

Links to African American museums, monuments and cultural sites.
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African American Museum of Iowa

African American Resources

From the Georgia Archives.

African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society Of Illinois, Inc. Museum

Afro-American Sources in Virginia - A Guide To Manuscripts

Alabama Department of Archives & History: Search Results - African American

Amherstburg Freedom Museum

Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. The Amherstburg Freedom Museum is located in Amherstburg, Ontario, a chief entry point into Canada for those escaping slavery in the U.S. The Museum consists of two historic buildings and a main exhibition building that preserves the rich Black heritage and history of the region.

Amistad Research Center

Amistad Research Center

The Amistad Research Center is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights. At Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Association of African American Museums

Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum New!

As the State of Maryland’s official museum of African American heritage, the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum serves to document, interpret, and promote African American history and culture in Maryland through exhibitions, programs, and projects in order to improve the understanding and appreciation of America’s rich cultural diversity for all.

Black Archives of Mid-America

A collaboration between the Black Archives of Mid-America Inc. and Kansas City Public Library, funded by the Missouri State Library.

Black Family Research: Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives

By Reginald Washington, NARA Reference Information Paper 108.

Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia

Richmond, Virginia.

Black Loyalist Heritage Centre

Part of Nova Scotia Museum, Canada. The Black Loyalist Heritage Centre tells the story of the world

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania Department: African-American Genealogy

Central Pennsylvania African American Museum

To establish, preserve and maintain a collection of objects, artifacts, arts, papers, books, photographs, etc. that document and describe the history and culture of African Americans in the New World, with emphasis on our local and regional (Reading, Berks and surrounding counties) African American history and culture, and to create an appropriate environment for exhibition of the collection to foster understanding of the history and culture of Africans in the New World, and to encourage education and research. The Mission of the museum also includes the preservation of the Underground Railroad located on the lower level of the Old Bethel A.M.E. Church in Reading, Pennsylvania.