Black History Month: Home

 Association for the Study of African American Life and History

  Founders of Black History Month

Resources from the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Background and origins of Black History Month, includes photo gallery

  National Museum of African American History & Culture

Explore the Collection

Explore Stories

  National Association or the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Black Life in America

African American Family Research Guide

  Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:  Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality

  Primary Source Documents by Subject including Slavery & Abolition, Civil War & Reconstruction, Jim Crow Era, Civil Rights & Black Power, & Modern Era

Ask the Librarian for access to these movies on Swank.

The Pōpolo Project

10 Reasons Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom

Literature and Resources

  A Place of Freedom: Black History in 19th Century Hawaiʻi - National Park Service

The Intersection of Hawaiian and Black Histories

Ka Wai Ola o OHA (Office of Hawaiian Affairs)

Blacks in Hawaiʻi: A Demographic and Historical Perspective by Eleanor C. Nordyke

eVols - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  Notes on Negroes in Early Hawaii. Porter, Kenneth W. 

  JSTOR

Here is a sample of the Black History titles in Midkiff.  Click on the link below to more titles.

Black History Collection