African American History Month

Thanks to an agreement signed March 17, 2015 between the California Community Colleges and several HBCUs, California community college students who complete certain academic requirements are guaranteed transfer to a participating HBCU.

Witness the enduring mark Black artists have made on American art through more than two centuries of Black art in our collection — from 19th century painters Joshua Johnson and Robert Seldon Duncanson to modern and contemporary artists Faith Ringgold, Alma Thomas, Romare Bearden, Kara Walker, and more.

Celebrating fine black art from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond since 2003

A place to explore history and culture through an African American lens

MoAD celebrates Black cultures, ignites challenging conversations, & inspires learning through the global lens of the African Diaspora.

This list from the Library of Congress compiles many resources and websites to learn more about African Americans in science and technology.

Information 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.

A free and openly available online search tool that facilitates broad access to over 700,000 digitized archival materials documenting African American history from more than 1,000 libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions across the United States.

A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture.

America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide.

Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people.

The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is dedicated to the discovery, preservation, interpretation, and sharing of historical and cultural experiences of African Americans in California and the West for present and future generations.

Brhombic was created by a group of historians, computer scientists and entrepreneurs, who formed a business partnership to focus on the missing pages of history; specifically African history, as the African Diaspora is comprised of African people whose descendants inhabit every country on the planet earth.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. With a collection of more than 36,000 artifacts, the Museum opened to the public in September 2016, as the 19th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.