This collection chronicles the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music in full-text major reference works, including biographies and personal narratives from oral histories, manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources. Subjects covered include jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, songs of enslaved people, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of Black American musical expression. 

Covering years 1909 through 1972, this collection contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People throughout the country.

Provides online access to reference resources in African American studies, including the Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, Black Women in America, and Africana, a history of the African American experience. Includes African American National Biography project, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture.   (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

History Vault provides access to millions of primary sources, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. The themes of the collections include; American Indians and the American West, Southern Life & Slavery, Latinx History, Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle, and Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals.

ProQuest One Black Studies’ core databases are Black Studies Center, The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Black Literature Index, and 13 Historical Black Newspapers including the Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, and Baltimore Afro-American. The platform also features archival collections, videos, and scholarly journals covering the Black experience from the 18th century to the present.

ProQuest One Literature is a comprehensive platform designed to support literary research, teaching, and learning by offering diverse, multi-format content that spans from canonical texts to underrepresented voices. It includes full-text journals, primary works, criticism, multimedia, and curated topic pages. Key databases and collections include Black Women Writers, Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker, English Poetry, Latino Literature, Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro, and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).