A project of the Library of Virginia. Freedom's Journal Digitzed PDF versions all 103 issues of the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the US, dating from 1827 to 1829. Maintained by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Maintained by the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Located at Stanford University, this site will likely become the definitive collection of the civil rights leader's writings.
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Includes photographs and texts on African-American history. The Valley of the Shadow Offers primary sources from the period just before the Civil War. It includes transcripts of original slave narratives, links to maps, church records, military records, letters, diaries, newspapers, public records, and church records gathered from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Augusta County, Virginia. A database of runaway and captured slave advertisements that features the full transcripts and images of runaway and captured slave ads placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. Maintained by Thomas Costa of the History Department at the University of Virginia's College at Wise.