These online resources are not freely available on the Internet, but are free to you through the library's web site with your Clayton County Library Card.
Academic Search Complete
Provides many full text magazine and journal articles. Many times magazines and journals offer biographical information even on historical figures. (GALILEO Password Required)
Literature Online Reference (LION)
An excellent source for literary criticism and biographies of American writers. (GALILEO Password Required)
American Civil War Reference Library
An e-book available through Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Black History Month Books Handout
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
An e-book available through Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Harlem Renaissance
An e-book available through Gale Virtual Reference Library.
These are available for in-library use only. We also have many additional books that can be checked out.
African-American Almanac
Author: Mabunda
Call Number: R 973.09
African-American Biography
Call Number: R 920
African-American Chronology, 1492-1972; 1973-1993
Author: Hornsby
Call Number: R 920.973
African-American Encyclopedia
Call Number: R 973.049
African-American Voices
Author: Straub
Call Number: R 973.049
Black Women in America
Author: Hine
Call Number: R 920.72
Dictionary of American Biography
Call Number: R 920
Dictionary of American Negro Biography
Author: Logan
Call Number: R 920
Distinguished African-American Scientists of the 20th Century
Author: Kessler
Call Number: R 509.2273
These are available for in-library use only. We also have many additional books that can be checked out.
100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History
Author: Beckner
Call Number: JR 973.049
9 African-American Inventors
Author: Hayden
Call Number: JR 509.2
African American Biography (six-volume set)
Call Number: JR 920
African American Entrepreneurs (part of the "Black Stars" series)
Author: Haskins
Call Number: JR 388
African American Healers (part of the "Black Stars" series)
Author: Cox
Call Number: JR 610.92
African American History Month 2012
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
African American Inventors (part of the "Black Stars" series)
Author: Sullivan
Call Number: JR 609.2
African American Military Heroes (part of the "Black Stars" series)
Author: Haskins
Call Number: JR 355.0089
African American Musicians (part of the "Black Stars" series)
Author: Tate
Call Number: JR 706.92
African American Teachers (part of the "Black Stars" series)
Author: Cox
Call Number: JR 371.1
African-American Inventors
Author: Amram
Call Number: JR 609.2
African-American Scientists
Author: McKissack
Call Number: JR 509.2273
Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern
Author: Van Sertima
Call Number: JR 509.22
Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History
Author: Haskins
Call Number: JR 973.049
Extraordinary Black American: From Colonial to Contemporary Times
Author: Altman
Call Number: JR 920.07
Great Lives: Human Rights
Author: Jacobs
Call Number: JR 920.073
Great Lives: Sports
Author: Sullivan
Call Number: JR795.092
I Am Rosa Parks
Author: Parks
Call Number: JR 976.1
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
Author: Rockwell
Call Number: JR 305.5
Satchel Paige
Author: Cline-Ransome
Call Number: JR 796.357
The Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans
Author: Kranz
Call Number: JR 920
The Negro Cowboys
Author: Durham
Call Number: JR 917.8
The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor
Author: Towle
Call Number: JR 608
African American Labor History Links
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century--From the Schomburg Library collection
African Americans in Army History
African Americans in the Visual Arts
African Diaspora Biography on the Internet
Africans in America - People and Events
Black Baseball - Negro Baseball League
Black History Month (History Channel)
Includes videos, speeches, and photo galleries.
Black History Month (NewsBank)
In-depth perspectives on black culture, issues and events, along with profiles of famous figures and leaders. Includes historical images.
Black History Month Biographies
Breaking Racial Barriers - African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection
Distinguished Women Past & Present - Black History Month
Georgia African American History And Culture
Hall of Black Achievement Gallery
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
Scholastic's Top Ten African American Inventors
Slavery's Legacy in West African (NPR)
The Black Press--Soldiers Without Swords
The Black Renaissance in Washington D.C.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Voices From the Gaps--Women Writers of Color
Women of Color, Women of Words
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