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
‘Institutional Racism: A Syllabus’, JSTOR Daily
‘Talking about Race’ from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Rhode Island and the Slave Trade: Buying and Selling Human Beings
‘Every Work of American Literature Is About Race’: Writers on How We Got Here, New York Times
John Lewis – ‘Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation,’ New York Times
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