African American Resources for Minnesota
United States
Minnesota
African-American Resources for Minnesota
Archives and Libraries
- Louisiana State Archives
- Manuscript Finding Aids Online at Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University
- African American Resource Center at the New Orleans Public Library
- Noel Memorial Library
- Perkins, A.E.Who's Who in Colored Louisiana. Baton Rouge, La.: Douglas Loan Co., 1930, Microform of original. FHL film 1303161, item 6
- Burkett, Randall K., Nancy Hall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. eds. Black Biographical Dictionaries. Alexandria, Virginia: Chadwyck-Healy, Inc., 198-FHL fiche 6049870, first of 349 fiche; book 973 F23bbd
History
People of Color in Lousiana: Part I
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Page 361 of 361-376
Newspapers
Newspaper Webindex: The Louisiana Newspaper Project
Online Communities
Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color A Facebook page providing resources about a community in Natchitoches (northwestern Lousiana) founded during colonial days by a Creole family.
Online Resources
- Louisiana Death Records 1911-1956
- Louisiana Free Slave Records,1719-1820. Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. [Database on line]Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820.
- Historic Pathways. Elizabeth Shown Mills. (An online archives of many peer-reviewed articles and papers relating to Louisiana's Creole history, particular Cane River and the Red River Valley.)
- Louisiana Lineage Legacies
- Louisiana National Register of Historic Places (Excellent resource with photos and history)
- Bossier Parish Cemeteries (Find A Grave)
- Louisiana Digital Archives
- Freedmen's Bureau for 1865-1868 in Caddo and Bossier Parishes
- Louisiana History and Genealogy
- Louisiana African American Griots
- Louisiana Archives (USGenWeb)
- Marriage Records (Caddo & Bossier Parishes)
- Plantation Records (Caddo & Bossier Parishes)
- Louisiana Slavery
- Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1830 - This website provides a searchable database for African-Americans from the Louisiana area.
Oral History
The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History
Reconstruction
Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1868
Milledge L. Bonham, Jr.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
Vol. 5, No. 3 (Dec., 1918) (pp. 366-368)
Page Count: 3
Slavery and Freedom
- Records Relating to Slavery, Free People of Color, and Freedmen New Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division & City Archives
- Bossier Parish, Louisiana 1860 Slaveholder and 1870 African-Americans
- Index to Slave Emancipation Petitions, 1814-1843 Louisiana. Parish Court (Orleans Parish)
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