Welcome to the African American History Guide. This guide is divided in to the different types of sources you will need to use for your research projects. Please feel free to contact the Baker Library at Norwalk Community College with any questions you may have during your research process.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Shine Sommers, played by Louis Sharp, "doin' himself some good"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1936 - 1936. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/

HIST 2016 - African American History to 1877

HIST 2017- African American History from 1877

A history of African-Americans from the 17th century to the present, starting with the African background and emphasizing the impact of slavery and the struggle for freedom in the Colonial, early national and antebellum periods; the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on African-American socioeconomic and political aspirations; and the continuing 20th-century issues of black activism and the struggle for full civil rights and equality in American society.