Developed with the guidance of African American librarians and subject specialists, The African American Experience (AAE) is the widest ranging and easiest-to-use online database collection on African American history and culture.

The African American experience encompasses the contributions of myriad individuals from the black community who have achieved success in the arts, science, business, the military, and in politics as well as nameless others that endured the travails of slavery and institutionalized discrimination. A collection that taps a tremendous variety of sources is required to cover a topic of this magnitude and the importance to understanding African American history and its relation to greater U.S. history.

Drawing on multiple titles and assembled with the guidance of leading librarians, AAE gives voice to the African American experience from its African origins to the present day.

Additionally, the Analyze section offers key questions aimed at stimulating critical thinking on such topics as "Was Reconstrution an unfinished revolution?" and "Should black America be considered a nation within a nation?"

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• eBooks
• EBSCO Discovery Service

• Contains more than 500 primary documents, including slave narratives, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, other documentation, and countless visuals
• More than 40 topical overviews and nearly 750 biographies of famous political and civil rights figures

• The Arts
• Civil Rights
• Education
• Folklore
• History
• Literature
• Music
• Politics
• Pop Culture
• Religion
• Science & Technology
• Slavery
• And more...