Black History Month Online Resources

The Greenwood Library has free access to three full-text collections of fiction and non-fiction writings by African Americans from Alexander Street Press during the month of February. These may be accessed from on-campus locations through February 28:

  • Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights as well as selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
  • Black Thought and Culture contains letters, speeches, essays, political leaflets, trial transcripts, and interviews of important African Americans, including 2,500 pages of exclusive Black Panther oral histories.
  • Black Women Writers contains fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean plus genre studies and essays about the history of the feminist movement in these regions.

The Library also has continuing access to the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, which chronicles the African experience in the Americas through scholarly essays, research, primary sources, timelines, video clips and images on multidisciplinary topics such as black women’s studies, religion, black cinema, the black press, African-American labor history, slavery, and sexuality.