African American Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

[[Allen County Public Library|Allen County Public Library]]{{·}} [[Family History Library]]{{·}} [[Library of Congress]]{{·}} [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives&nbsp;I]]{{·}} [[United States National Archives Regional Branches|National Archives Regional Branches]]{{·}} [[National Underground Railroad Freedom Center]]{{·}} Birmingham Civil Rights Institute{{·}} Black Archives of Mid-America{{·}} Duke Univeristy Rubenstein Library{{·}} [[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers|Family History Centers]]{{·}} [[Godfrey Memorial Library]]{{·}} Kalamazoo College Black History Mobile Museum{{·}} [[New England Historic Genealogical Society]]{{·}} [[Newberry Library]]{{·}} [[John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library at Colonial Williamsburg]]{{·}} Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture{{·}} Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum{{·}} [[University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries]]{{·}} University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center{{·}} University of Pittsburgh Hillman Library<br><br>

:The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is more a museum (few original manuscripts) than an archive. However, it has a [[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers|family history center]] for research help and Ancestry.com access on the Internet. They tell the history of the guides, safe houses, and transportation network used to smuggle runaway enslaved African Americans out of the slave states to freedom in the North before the American Civil War. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center reveals stories about freedom’s heroes: the men, women and children who challenge inequities to pursue greater freedom for their brothers and sisters.<ref>[http://www.freedomcenter.org/enabling-freedom Enabling Freedom] in ''National Underground Railroad Freedom Center'' (accessed 30 May 2016).</ref><br><br>

[[File:Ncfayetteville.jpg|thumb|right|280px|A Family History Center in Fayetteville NC]]'''[[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers|Family History Centers]]''' (FHCs) have [[Family History Center Portal|premium online services]] for genealogists for free and offer research suggestions. These microfilms include a good collection of African American records including censuses, vital records, cemeteries, church records, biographies, Freedman's Bank, Freedmen's Bureau, funeral homes, military records, oral history, probate records, slavery and bondage records, and the Southern Claims Commission records.

There are more than 4,700 FHCs in 134 countries. There is no cost to visit a Family History Center or Family History Library. They are open to anyone with an interest in genealogical research. They are operated by [https://www.mormon.org/ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (LDS). Click on [https://familysearch.org/locations Find a family history center] to locate the the center nearest you.<ref>[[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers]] in ''Family History Research Wiki'' (accessed 29 February 2016).</ref>