In line with our mission, this Research Assistance Links page is provided to aid researchers who are interested in sources for African American History. On this page, you’ll find links to Primary and Secondary Source information. (Note: When clicking any of the research links below, you will be leaving the AAAHRP’s site. Use your browser’s “back” button to return to this site.)

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

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

Pursuing the Past in the Twenty-first Century. The web site of Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington. He is a specialist in African American history in the American West with over three decades of research and teaching in this field. Students, researchers and the general public will find the site to be a gateway to the vast array of information on the lives and histories of the millions of African Americans who have and continue to make the West their home. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/

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/

 

The South African Research and Archival Project (SARAP) is designed to identify, locate, inventory and disseminate information pertaining to the involvement of Americans in the liberation struggle of South Africans. It is located on the campus of Howard University. http://sarap.howard.edu/