Note: This trial ended on 1st March, 2021.
I am pleased to report that the Vere Harmsworth Library has organised trial access to the online resource, Black Thought and Culture. The trial will run until the 1st March, 2021.
This impressive database contains a collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.
The collection spans from the works of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois and Ida B. Wells Barnett, to Zora Neal Hurston, Audra Lorde, and Jesse Jackson. Most notably, the collection includes items previously undigitized, and difficult to obtain, such as:
- The transcript of the Muhammad Ali trial
- A full run of The Black Panther newspaper, with full-colour images of every page as well as searchable text
- 2,500 pages of exclusive Black Panther oral histories owned by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
- Selected audio files, heard here for the first time
- the full run of Artist and Influence journal, tracking African American cultural trends in the 20th Century.
This resource will be of interest to those interested in African American history, politics, literature and culture.
You may access the resource here.
Please send any feedback you have regarding this resource to bethan.davies@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.