- Time-span
- 1700 - present
- Subscription Type
- SUBSCRIPTION
- Publisher
- Alexander Street
- Languages
- English
- Resource Types
- Article Database
- Description
- This collection contains approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings from the past 250 years by over 1,000 American black leaders, including artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, and entertainers. Black Thought and Culture offers access to previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. Subjects indexed include colonialism, poverty, education, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, and more.