A groundbreaking digital resource exclusively devoted to African American family history research.
The stories of American slaves as told by the former slaves themselves.
The Black Freedom Struggle website includes more than 2,000 documents curated around six crucial phases of the U.S. Black freedom struggle:
• The end of slavery during the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era
• The fight against Jim Crow segregation
• The New Deal and World War II
• The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement from 1946-1975
• …and the contemporary Black experience since 1976.
Primary source collection on slavery and abolition.
