Digital Resource Guide — Rhode Island’s African American History

Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Resources on African American History

• Resources for educators to teach African American history in the classroom
• https://www.ride.ri.gov/InstructionAssessment/CivicsSocialStudies/ResourcesonAfricanAmericanHistory.aspx

EnCompass: A Digital Archive of Rhode Island History

• ‘Rhode Island, Slavery, and the Slave Trade’ essay
• http://library.providence.edu/encompass/rhode-island-slavery-and-the-slave-trade/rhode-island-slavery-and-the-slave-trade/

Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, Civil Rights Timeline

• A timeline recording people and events relevant to the African American Civil Rights movement in R.I.
• https://riblackheritagesociety.wildapricot.org/Civil-Rights-Timeline

Center for the Study of Slavery and Injustice, Brown University

• “Creates a space for the interdisciplinary study of the historical forms of slavery while also examining how these legacies continue to shape our contemporary world”
• https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

• “Supports and generates rigorous and accessible research, performance, art and scholarship on a broad range of pressing issues related to race and ethnicity to help build greater understanding and a more just world”
• https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTiEffrOcz_5PzYIeQWH3I-MMgkkIsetx

‘Rhode Tour’, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and Rhode Island Historical Society

• Rhode Island’s Black Heritage, self-guided walking tour
• https://rhodetour.org/tours/show/5

1696 Heritage Group

• “Dedicated to helping persons and institutions of color to increase their knowledge and access to the light of truth of their unique American heritage.”
• http://www.1696heritage.com/
• http://www.1696heritage.com/our-blog/

Creative Survival

• “A collaboration of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society and 1696 Heritage Group to present history as the collective memory of African heritage people from enslavement, freedom, and beyond. It is a means to remembering important people, places and events in the history of the African diaspora.”
• http://creativesurvivalri.org/omeka/home

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

• https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery

‘Institutional Racism: A Syllabus’, JSTOR Daily

• https://daily.jstor.org/institutionalized-racism-a-syllabus/?utm_term=Read%20More&utm_campaign=jstordaily_06042020&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email

‘Talking about Race’ from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

• https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race

Rhode Island and the Slave Trade: Buying and Selling Human Beings

• https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/slaveryinrhodeisland/home/site/providencejournal.com

‘Every Work of American Literature Is About Race’: Writers on How We Got Here, New York Times 

• https://nyti.ms/3eFgj0w

John Lewis – ‘Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation,’ New York Times

• https://nyti.ms/2P6qaku 

DisappearingInk:A Bibliography of Writings by and about Rhode Island African Americans

• https://www.stagesoffreedom.org/disappearingink 

Slave Money Paved the Streets. Now This Posh RI City Strives to Teach its Past, The 74

• https://www.the74million.org/article/slave-money-paved-the-streets-now-this-posh-ri-city-strives-to-teach-its-past/ 

Newport Historical Society, Free African Union Society and African Benevolent Society records, 1787-1824

• Archival collection of meeting minutes of Free African Union Society and African Benevolent Society
• https://collections.newporthistory.org/Detail/collections/142
• Rhode Island’s BIPOC Heritage
• https://newporthistory.org/resource-center/know-your-history/bipoc-heritage/