African American Studies include:

• Major federal legislation concerning slave trade, colonization, reconstruction, civil rights, affirmative action, and issues related to race relations, 1792–1994.
• U.S. Supreme Court decisions on constitutional issues raised by slavery, reconstruction
  programs, Jim Crow laws, school segregation, job and housing discrimination, and affirmative action programs, 1806–1999.
• Autobiographies of prominent African Americans, including Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Walter F. White, and James Forman.
• Manuscript materials on the crusade to ban the movie Birth of a Nation, NAACP legal
  campaigns against segregated education and "white primaries," work of the "Black Cabinet" during the New Deal, and the surge of civil rights activities in the 1960s as seen from inside the Kennedy and Johnson White House.
• Reference articles on major African American figures and key events and court decisions in the civil rights movement.
• Scholarly articles from academic journals and anthologies on the African American experience.
• Photographs depicting famous persons, events, and institutions in African American history, including Carl Van Vechten portrait images of famous writers, scholars, and artists; Hampton
  University photos of the early experience in industrial education; and images from the Mary
  McLeod Bethune Foundation. The Bethune Foundation images include depictions of student life at Bethune-Cookman College and its predecessor institutions as well as photos documenting the
  political career of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Black Drama contains 908 plays by 171 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Black Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. For example, the collection includes writings by W.E.B. Du Bois from The Amenia Conference, an Historic Negro Gathering and from The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. The database offers unprecedented possibilities for the study of the historical development of black culture and will appeal to students and scholars alike. It will enable teachers to create new courses and to compile reading lists that refer to individual authors, issues, viewpoints, and common critical issues.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

GenderWatch (GW) is a full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and special reports.

International Index to Black Periodicals: International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text brings together 150 of the most respected scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 - This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.

Women Writers Online is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.