Courses and Resources in African American Studies

• Courses in African American Studies (opens in a new window)
• Ohio University Course Offerings Website (opens in a new window)
• Resources & Useful Links for African American Studies Research

Please consult the Registrar's website for up-to-date days, times, and locations of these and other African American Studies courses.

Important Links Useful for African American Studies Research

Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) (opens in a new window)

National Council of Black Studies  (NCBS (opens in a new window))

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (opens in a new window), among the nation's most distinguished African American studies institutes, begun during the Harlem Renaissance.

National Archives digital collections (opens in a new window): enormous number of materials, from black contributions to military intelligence during the Civil War to the photographs of James VanDerZee.

James Weldon Johnson collection at the Beineke Library (opens in a new window), Yale University: a national treasure of Black Diaspora culture, including a wonderful exhibition on "Langston Hughes at 100."

FBI Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) surveillance files "Reading Room (opens in a new window)": on-line, PDF downloadable FBI files secretly kept on the NAACP, Nation of Islam, COINTELPRO (including the Black Panthers), Claudia Jones, Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, and W.E.B. Du Bois.