Resource Guide:
Race in America

• Native Peoples of North America
• "White man bery unsartin": "Nigger haint got no friends, no how"; the blackest chapter in the history of the Republican Party; the men who robbed and combined to rob the freedmen of their hard earnings.
• The National Afro-American Council, organized 1898. A history of the organization, its objects, synopses of proceedings, constitution and by-laws, plan of organization, annual topics, etc.
• Colored Men and the Democratic Party: review of American History on this issue
• US History Theme 1: The New South and Western Development
• To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Slave Voyages

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Black Firsts
• National Museum of African-American History and Culture
• Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
• Anti-Defamation League
• Cherokee Nation History
• Urban Institute
• Center for American Progress
• Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island
• Archive of Immigrant Voices
• Virginia Memory Digital Collections
• Desegregation of Virginia Education
• A timeline of mixed-race marriage in Virginia

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Racism--United States.
• Racism--United States--History--19th century.
• Miscegenation--United States.
• Compromise of 1850.
• Slavery--United States.
• Slavery--United States--History.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Antisemitism--United States.
• Native Americans.
• Manifest Destiny.
• Trail of Tears, 1838-1839.
• Segregation--Virginia.

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction
• Debating Issues in American Education
• Humanities International Complete
• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• JSTOR
• Military & Government Collection
• Newspaper Source Plus

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• University of Maryland Law Journal of Race Religion Gender and Class
• Phylon (1940)
• American 19th Century History
• Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
• Patterns of Prejudice
• Patterns of Prejudice
• Journal of American Ethnic History

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.