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Library of Congress

Library of Congress - African-American Odyssey

Library of Michigan

Maryland State Archives African American Resources

Merseyside Maritime Museum

Liverpool, England.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Washington, D.C. 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. As one of Howard University's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.

Multicultural Genealogical Center

A resource for studying southeast Ohio's African-American history. Located in Chesterhill, Ohio.

Museum of African-American History

Detroit, Michigan.

National Museum of African American History & Culture - Smithsonian

Washington, D.C. Devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Park museum under construction in Cincinnati. Will contain records pertaining to all slavery-era persons. Collecting oral history on Underground Railroad sites and stories.

New Orleans Public Library

Newberry Library - African-American Genealogy

Describes the African-American genealogy resources in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.

Parting Ways: The Museum of Afro-American & Cape Verdean History, Inc.

Pennsylvania State Archives

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Durham, North Carolina.

Richard B. Harrison Library - Mollie Huston Lee Collection

North Carolina.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

From the New York Public Library.

St. Louis County Library

Missouri.

The Black Fashion Museum

The Black Fashion Museum in Washington DC acknowledges the achievements and contributions of people from the African Diaspora to the apparel industry.

The Mitchell Collection of African American History

AfricanAmericanCollection.com is a website that displays one of the world's most comprehensive collections of African American History in the form of artifacts, books, letters, photographs, newspapers and more. The collection is absolutely amazing and is a great resource for people to view some of our nations most interesting moments in African American History.