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Diversity & Inclusion

Campus Resources and Student Organizations

Black Student Union
- Black Student Union Website
Caribbean Visionaries
National Society of Black Engineers
African Student Organization
Office of Campus Life
- Be on the lookout for a Black History Month event in February

West Indies and African History

Black Pop Culture

This Day in Black History

This Day in Black History

Who are African Americans?

African Americans
Encyclopedia of Black Studies.
African Americans
From: Encyclopedia of Human Development.

Topic: Slavery

Not a Peculiar Institution: Challenging Students' Assumptions about Slavery in U.S. History
By Nancy Ogden
American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice
By Ira Berlin
Rectification and Reparation: What Does Citizen Responsibility Require?
By Paul M. Hughes

Recommended African American Studies journals

African American History Collections

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from the New York Public Library

African-American Odyssey from the Library of Congress

Charles Warner Pierce from the IIT Archives

Topic: Road to Freedom - Abolitionism

The Constitution and Slavery: A Special Relationship
By Helen J. Knowles
The Antislavery Movement in Early America: Religion, Social Environment and Slave Manumissions.
By Art Budros

Topic: Road to Freedom - Emancipation Proclamation / Civil War

Topic: Civil Rights - Right to Vote

We Shall Overcome
An address on voting legislation to the Joint Session of Congress, March 15, 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson.
Voting Rights Act
From： International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Civil Rights in Twilight: The End of the Civil Rights Movement Era in 1973
By Christopher Paul Lehman

Topic: Civil Rights - Desegregation

Desegregation
From: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Jim Crow
By Kurt Hohenstein. From: Encyclopedia of African American Society
Civil Rights Act of 1964
From: Encyclopedia of African American Society