In line with our mission, this Research Assistance section is provided to assist researchers who are interested in African American History. You’ll find links to Primary and Secondary Source information on this page, early Pacific Northwest arrival information on the PNW Arrival page, and articles from Horace Roscoe Cayton: Selected Writings, (compiled and edited by Ed Diaz), on the Horace Cayton Research page. Finally, there is Washington State obituary information on the Obituary pages. (Note: When clicking any of the research links below, you will be leaving AAAHRP. Use your browser’s “back” button to return to this site.)
Each page in the research assistance section is updated on a continuing basis, so check this section often. If you come across any inaccurate information or “broken links” please inform us so that corrective action can be taken. contactus@aaahrp.org.
The African American Coal Miner Information Center, a site developed by Tim Pinnick, a researcher who has done extensive research on coal mining families, provides valuable information about African American coal miners. The site includes a synopsis of African American coal mining experiences, research sources, and much more including a growing list of miners in alphabetical order by last name - many with the place of birth.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blackcoalminers/index.htm
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (James P. Danky, Editor and Maureen E. Hady, Associate Editor, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) is a comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography of over 6,000 entries is the indispensable guide to the stories of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow, segregation, liberation, struggle, and triumph. Many of the items included in African-American Newspapers & Periodicals : A Bibliography have been microfilmed and are located at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library.
The California Underground Railroad - A Digital Archive, provided by the California State University (Sacramento), a new source for information pertaining to slavery in the “free state” of California, is now online. One of the featured sources of information is The Elevator newspaper.
http://digital.lib.csus.edu/curr
Documenting Our Past - The Teenie Harris Archive Project. Teenie Harris had a long distinguished career with the Pittsburgh Courier. His photographs provide a valuable visual history of Pittsburg’s African American community from the Great Depression to the Civil Rights Movement. This site will eventually contain 3,600 images from Harris’ collection. Some of the images are presently unidentified and viewers are encouraged to help provide image identification and other useful information. http://www.cmoa.org/teenie/info.asp
Regional African American Research and the Availability of Primary Resources site, provided by Glenda Pearson, Head of the Microforms and Newspaper Collections of the University of Washington, is one of the outstanding sources available to aid researchers of Pacific Northwest African American History. It is highly recommended as a starting point for researchers interested in this area.
http://lib.washington.edu/mcnews/afroamerican_primarysources/ |