AP African American Studies Resource Archive | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Learn more about the long history of celebrating emancipation, from January 1, to August 1, to Juneteenth.

View silent film scenes of Tulsa’s Black institutions and organizations in the mid-1920s.

Explore the meaning and the impact of James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson’s hymn.

Watch a silent film of a graduation procession at the only HBCU in Oklahoma.

Explore W. E. B. Du Bois’s relationship with and advocacy for the anticolonial movement.

AP African American Studies Resource Library